Singspiel filly Folk Opera made all when winning the Darley Prix Jean Romanet over ten furlongs at Deauville on Sunday. The Godolphin four-year-old has now won four of her nine starts and was beaten just a short-head by Gravitation in the G3 Lillie Langtry Stakes at Glorious Goodwood on her last start at the extended trip of a mile and six furlongs.
Having also previously won at a mile and a half, Folk Opera demonstrated that she has plenty of speed as the closing stages developed into a sprint finish and she held off a number of challengers in dogged fashion. Bred by Abbevaille and Meadow Cout Studs rom the Halling mare Skiphall, she holds an entry for the Gi Emirates Champion Stakes in October.
Among her other good performances this season was second spot in the Listed Aphrodite Stakes at Newmarket to Dar Re Mi, another daughter of Singspiel who has also gone on to success at Deauville in the G3 Prix la Minerve and who finished runner-up in the G1 Darley Yorkshire Oaks on Friday.
Cape Cross sired the winner of the G2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano at Deauville on Saturday when Russian Cross, who will now head straight to the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, gave cause for celebration in the Andre Fabre camp. There was further success for the Kildangan resident at Goodwood when his three-year-old daughters Crystal Capella and Casilda forced a photograph in the Listed Alice Keppel Stakes.
The Fabre-trained duo of Treat Gently (Cape Cross) and Coastal Path (Halling) took second and third in the G3 Prix de la Nonette and G2 Prix Kergorlay repectively on Deauville’s Darley-sponsored card.
