Trainer Freddie Head made it a remarkable eight Group Ones for the season on the Longchamp undercard as Naaqoos took the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (Grand Criterium) and Marchand D’Or the Prix de l’Abbaye.

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.

BENBAUN has made the Curragh his home-from-home but he could not have picked a better place to collect a rare ‘away’ success than the Prix de l’Abbaye at Longchamp yesterday.