Just Glamorous powers into Abbaye reckoning

There were a couple of shocks in the Group-race sprints in France and Ireland, starting with Just Glamorous’s remarkable win in the Prix du Petit Couvert. Rated just 92, Ron Harris’s three-year-old was beaten off that mark in a York handicap last time, but set a fierce pace and shattered the Chantilly course record as he beat the much higher-rated British pair of Marsha and Goldream by three lengths and one and a half. The Arcano gelding is now just 16-1 in places for the Prix de l’Abbaye at the same track next month and on this evidence needs to be taken seriously.

Sunday results and analysis

Washington DC was well backed to return to form for Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore in the Flying Five at the Curragh and he looked to have been brought with a winning run a furlong out, at which point he hit 1.01 on Betfair. However, Ardhoomey, also backed – from 33-1 to 16-1 – proved just the stronger and defied an in-running high of 300.