BLUE CANARI was brought with a powerful late charge by Thierry Thulliez to record a shock victory in the Prix du Jockey-Club at Chantilly yesterday and in the process give his trainer Pascal Bary a fifth success in the race.

Top American rider Jerry Bailey will take over from Thierry Thulliez on Six Perfections in the Breeders’ Cup Mile later this month.

YESTERDAY may have won the Entenmann’s Irish Oaks at the Curragh, but the real story of this classic was the performance of Johnny Murtagh aboard Six Perfections.

Sagitta 1000 Guineas second Six Perfections will face just seven rivals when the French filly bids to go one better in the Entenmann’s-sponsored Irish equivalent at the Curragh on Sunday.

Johnny Murtagh takes the place of Thierry Thulliez, who was heavily-criticised for his riding of Six Perfections in the Sagitta 1000 Guineas, in the Irish equivalent on Sunday.

JOHNNY MURTAGH will take over on the Pascal Bary trained Six Perfections in Sunday’s Entemann’s Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh.

SIX PERFECTIONS, a fast-finishing runner-up in the Sagitta 1000 Guineas, is to bid to go one better in the Entenmann’s-sponsored Irish equivalent at the Curragh on Sunday week, it was announced yesterday.

KIEREN FALLON pounced to win his third Sagitta 1000 Guineas at Newmarket yesterday as Russian Rhythm showed why some rumours are best ignored.