Deauville paved with Gold for Head

SOME well-regarded fillies were put well in their place at Deauville yesterday as Freddie Head landed his third Group One of the season with Goldikova in the Prix Rothschild.

Formerly run as the Prix d’Astarte, the one-mile event attracted a stellar line-up that included the Alain de Royer-Dupre-trained pair of Darjina and Royal Ascot winner Sabana Perdida, Mark Johnston’s Falmouth winner Nahoodh and the 1000 Guineas winner Natagora.

But it was the unheralded Goldikova, who has been put in her place twice by Royer-Dupre’s star Zarkava already this season, who ran out a pretty emphatic winner.