Gerard Butler’s Nayyir heads a strong British challenge for the Group One Prix de la Foret at Longchamp on Sunday.

Six Perfections is to miss Sunday’s Group One Prix d’Astarte at Deauville so she can be saved for the Prix Jacques Le Marois on August 15, a race she won last year.

American Post, a leading fancy for the Vodafone Derby, has just three rivals in his French 2000 Guineas prep race at Longchamp tomorrow.

ROBERT COLLET’S 26-1 shot Whipper created a big upset as the British and Irish raid fizzled out in the Prix Morny Casinos Barriere at Deauville yesterday.

British and Irish raiders failed to cut much ice in the feature contest at Deauville this afternoon as Whipper sprung a real surprise in the Prix Morny Casinos Barriere.