Haras du Logis stallion Slickly sired his first ever G1 winner on Bastille Day when his three-year-old son Meandre was the impressive victor of the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp. Settled in third early behind the pacesetting Ballydoyle pair of Seville and Treasure Beach, he was asked early in the straight and responded well to win going away by one-and-a-half lengths. A rapidly improving colt, he has now won his last three starts after taking the Listed Prix de l'Avre over the same course and distance last time out.
Owned and bred by the Rothschild Family, Meandre is the first foal of the Stakes-placed mare Penne and from the family of Gris Tendre, a Stakes winner in France by Slickly. Penne also has a full-sister two-year-old to Meandre named Ondoyante.
Slickly, a four-time G1-winner, has been one of France's leading homegrown stallions since retiring to stud. The sire of eight Stakes winners including the prolific Gris De Gris, he currently heads the leading sires table in France with 31 individual winners.
