Christophe Soumillon left Longchamp yesterday with the belief Orfevre had the potential to provide him with a third Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe after the Japanese Triple Crown star made a successful European debut.

David Marnane’s high-class sprinter Nocturnal Affair makes his first appearance of the turf season in the Abergwaun Stakes at Tipperary tonight.

DANDY Nicholls’ globe-trotting and appropriately named Inxile powered home to land the Listed Galteee Midsummer Sprint Stakes at Cork yesterday.

Corrybrough stretched his winning sequence to four and confirmed himself as a potential sprint star with an impressive victory in the bettercasino.com Scurry Stakes at Sandown.