Sulamani wins Prix Niel farce

SULAMANI completed his preparation for next month'‘ Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe with an easy win in the Prix Neil at Longchamp yesterday.

But the victory, which extended the French Derby’s winner unbeaten sequence to four, came in controversial circumstances after a farcically slow early pace saw Sulamani greeted with a hail of boos as he returned to the winner’s enclosure.

Indeed for the first half-mile of the Group Two race it was hard to tell if the race had actually started and there was uncertainty over whether the three runners were trying to pull up after a false start.