Homebound continued the fantastic run of form for Jean-Claude Rouget and Christophe Lemaire by taking the Prix de Sandringham at Chantilly today.

RUSSIAN prime minister Vladimir Putin led hundreds of mourners paying last respects yesterday to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the dissident writer who chronicled the horror of the Soviet prison camps.

Doctor Fremantle fared best of the foreign raiders in the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp this evening but was no match for an ultra-impressive winner in Montmartre.

The bitter cold seizing Russia retained its icy grip today and severe freezing temperatures spread westwards into much of Europe.

The governor of Russia's Far Eastern region of Magadan has been shot on a busy Moscow street.