Lellouche: Vallée can be a Diamond sparkler

Trainer Elie Lellouche believes Saturday’s King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes is well within the grasp of his filly Vallée Enchantée.

The four-year-old is due a change of luck after well-documented traffic problems left her running up cul de sacs at Longchamp and Epsom so far this year.

“She’s had two races this season but did not have the best of runs in either,” the Lamorlaye handler said, reflecting on Vallée Enchantée’s fourth in the Prix Ganay and third to Warrsan in the Coronation Cup.

“I don’t want to go over old ground, but she was unlucky in the Ganay and in the Coronation Cup.

"With a clearer passage I think she could have won it.”

“She is a reasonably late-maturing filly and she’s only raced about two furlongs this season, so she lines up fresh.

“And look what she’s done. As a three-year-old filly she took on her elders and colts and beat them in the Hong Kong Vase. That’s pretty impressive.

“She looks great and she’s stayed at the same level as she was in the Coronation Cup. She’s ready.”