Scott Burton, our man in France, picks out two fancies on the Saint-Cloud bill

Gold Trip
2.00 Saint-Cloud
1pt each-way

Irska
2.35 Saint-Cloud
1pt win

The Prix Tourbillon looks a hot enough race for this stage of the season, with local punters expected to side with unbeaten colts from the powerful yards of Andre Fabre and Jean-Claude Rouget.

One, or perhaps both of Mare Australis and Port Guillaume could turn out to be smart prospects, but neither has yet set an unattainable standard in a race with more depth that might first meet the eye.

Form figures of 25 may lead plenty to overlook the Fabrice Chappet-trained Gold Trip but a closer scan of those two starts reveal he has been running in decent company.

Gold Trip was beaten a head on debut by Nat King, a colt Carlos Laffon-Parias considers worthy of a try in the Group 3 Prix La Force at Longchamp on Thursday.

Gold Trip's second start yielded a moderate fifth at Saint-Cloud, but that was on much deeper ground than he will encounter here, while stablemate Pisanello, who won that day, has since scored at Listed level, even if he failed to build on that in the Prix de Fontainebleau on Monday.

Available at big prices with British bookmakers, Gold Trip can reward each-way support.

The fillies on show in the Prix Durban later on the card present a different set of conundrums.

Another Rouget/Fabre duel might be envisaged, with Vienne and Gemcutter reasonably closely matched on two meetings last year, though neither strike as being among their stables' leading lights.

Andrea Marcialis showed his string to be well forward with placed efforts in two of the Group races at Longchamp on Monday.

But although Anobar ran third in a Listed race at this course before lockdown, she enjoyed a fitness edge that day on very deep ground and had previously looked quite exposed.

In the circumstances it could be worth giving a second look to Irska, who won on debut at Chantilly in March and in doing so, showed the sort of knee action that hinted soft ground ought not to present a problem.

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