Shirocco claims Longchamp spoils
Andre Fabre’s Shirocco maintained his unbeaten record for the season with a narrow victory over stablemate Hurricane Run in the Prix Foy at Longchamp.
With Fabre saddling three of the five runners, the race was run at a sedate pace for the first mile before Christophe Soumillon took up the running on last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf hero from the pacemaker, Near Honor.
Kieren Fallon loomed up on Hurricane Run with a furlong to run, but Shirocco pulled out more for Soumillon and held off the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hero for his third win of the season.
The six-year-old mare Pride was not beaten far in third, with all the principals being ridden conservatively with the Arc back in Paris on October 1 in mind.
