She was not the lady most expected to be winning the Prince of Wales’s Stakes but The Fugue gave another reminder of how she must never be underestimated after receiving a Royal Ascot coronation in a record-breaking time yesterday.

Criquette Head-Maarek has confirmed her incredible Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe heroine Treve will stay in training as a four-year-old to defend her Longchamp crown.

Moonlight Cloud produced arguably the performance of the day as she came from last to first to land the Prix de la Foret at Longchamp.

Criquette Head-Maarek insists that stall 15 will be “no problem” for Treve as the unbeaten filly bids to beat the statistics in tomorrow’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (3.15) at Longchamp.

Frankie Dettori has been ruled out for the season after he fractured his right ankle at Nottingham today, the jockey’s business manager Peter Burrell has said.

Criquette Head-Maarek’s Fuisse prevailed in a blanket finish for the Prix du Moulin in which Paco Boy could finish only fourth.

Alain de Royer-Dupre is expecting big things from Rosanara in Sunday’s Total Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp.

A classy field of nine will go to post for the Electrolux Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on Friday, headed by 1000 Guineas favourite Lady Of The Desert.

PROPORTIONAL has a lot to live up to compared with last year’s Total Prix Marcel Boussac winner Zarkava, but still had the ability to humble a decent pack of two-year-old fillies in the Longchamp Group One yesterday.

A statement of the obvious it may be but the ground is the key to all the weekend’s racing and, should today’s featured Betfred Sprint Cup at Haydock get the go-ahead, it’s clear to see why ante-post punters have been drawn to French raider African Rose.

Today’s supplementary entry stage for the French 2000 Guineas passed with no additional runners so American Post faces a maximum of seven rivals in Sunday’s Classic.