Siyouni on the mark with first four home at Fontainebleu

Siyouni provided some visual justification for the further elevation of his stallion fee by siring the first four home in the Listed Prix Ceres at Fontainebleu on Thursday.

Haras de Bonneval's titan is up from €100,000 to €140,000 for next year on the back of a season which has seen him produce the likes of Arc hero Sottsass and the Dewhurst winner St Mark's Basilica.

It was Honey Cake who earned the most black type of the three-year-old fillies in the seven-furlong contest, continuing a productive season for Alex Pantall by making virtually every yard under Augustin Madamet to win by just under two lengths.

Irish-bred by William McAlpin from the family of Coastal Path and Reefscape, she had been sold twice in France, most recently for €110,000 at the breeze-ups. Pantall had withdrawn her from the Arqana Arc Sale, seemingly for good reason.

Honey Cake led home Siyouni's Private Romance, Femina and Marly to become his 43rd stakes winner to date. His other runner, Ellerslie Lace, was a respectable seventh in the 16-strong field.and was pulled out of the Arqana Arc Sale by Pantall.

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