Moonlight Cloud leads stellar Deauville cast in Marois

Moonlight Cloud takes on eight other individual Group One winners in what may very well be the race of the season in tomorrow’s Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville.

Established as Europe’s top sprinter after finishing just a head behind Black Caviar and running away with the Prix Maurice de Gheest for the second year in-a-row last weekend, Freddie Head’s filly now meets the cream of the milers.

They include Excelebration, unable to manage the hopeless task of defeating Frankel but successful at the top level in the Prix du Moulin, Dubai Duty Free star Cityscape and Most Improved, who returned to form with a bang in the St James’s Palace Stakes.