Aigles out to show Sunday best

Cirrus Des Aigles has another opportunity to demonstrate his remarkable versatility in tomorrow’s Prix d’Ispahan at Longchamp.

Corine Barande-Barbe’s humbly-bred gelding has now firmly established himself as one of the sport’s top competitors across the world, winning last year’s Champion Stakes and going on to land the Dubai Sheema Classic.

He returned to France to take the Group One Prix Ganay, over a mile and three furlongs on heavy ground, by eight lengths and now drops back to just over nine furlongs of the Bois de Boulogne.