Confirmed runners and riders for the Prix de l'Abbaye and four more Group 1s

Popular 2019 winner and reigning Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint champion Glass Slippers will head a field of 15 declared for the Prix de l'Abbaye (4.25) at Longchamp on Sunday, one of five Group 1 races to be finalised on the supporting card to the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Nunthorpe Stakes winner Winter Power will also bid to erase the memory of a no-show in the Flying Five at the Curragh last month, while Romantic Proposal and A Case Of You, the horses who led home Glass Slippers on that occasion, also feature in the line-up.

As expected, Olivier Peslier takes the ride aboard the Francois Rohaut-trained ante-post favourite Suesa after William Buick had partnered her over the course of three runs in Britain this summer.

Hollie Doyle is free to partner Mo Celita for Adrian Nicholls despite her ban, as there is no Flat racing in Britain on Sunday.

The draw on the straight track is often said to favour those drawn low in soft ground but market leaders Suesa (12), Romantic Proposal (13) and Berneuil (14) will break from three of the four highest numbers.

Prix de l'Abbaye runners and riders plus draw numbers

Wild MajestyMickael Barzalona (4)
O TrasnoEddy Hardouin (3)
A Case Of YouRonan Whelan (5)
Urban BeatBen Coen (6)
BerneuilChristophe Soumillon (14)
PonntosMilan Zatloukal (1)
PradaroAurelien Lemaitre (11)
Air De ValseRonan Thomas (2)
Glass SlippersTom Eaves (9)
Lady In FranceDanny Tudhope (7)
Romantic ProposalChris Hayes (13)
Mo CelitaHollie Doyle (10)
Winter PowerSilvestre de Sousa (8)
DandallaBen Curtis (15)
SuesaOlivier Peslier (12)

The card kicks off with a high-class running of Prix Marcel Boussac (1.15), in which the exciting Raclette will be one of three fillies to represent trainer Andre Fabre, with Oisin Murphy taking the ride on stablemate Zellie.

Moyglare Stud Stakes runner-up Agartha goes for Joseph O'Brien, while Oscula bids to extend the good season George Boughey and Nick Bradley.

In a final field of nine Natasha aims to give John and Thady Gosden a fourth win in the race, ten years on from their most recent Boussac heroine Elusive Kate.

In the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere (1.50) over seven furlongs, Coolmore are represented by the Andre Fabre-trained Ancient Rome, one of eight colts declared alongside the unbeaten filly Accakaba.

Phoenix Stakes winner Ebro River is the current market leader off the back of his third-placed effort behind Native Trial on his first try at this trip in the Goffs Vincent O'Brien National Stakes on Irish Champions Weekend.

Longchamp Sunday cards

Further British interest comes from Angel Bleu (Ralph Beckett), Noble Truth (Charlie Appleby) and The Wizard Of Eye (Stan Moore), while Aidan O'Brien fields Stone Age in the colours of last year's Arc-winning owner Peter Brant.

Immediately after the Arc – for which final declarations and the draw was made on Thursday – Breeders' Cup heroine Audarya heads a field of 15 fillies and mares for the Prix de l'Opera Longines (3.50) over 1m2f.

Prix de Diane winner Joan Of Arc returns to this intermediate trip having failed to cut any ice over a mile and a half in the Prix Vermeille three weeks ago and is joined by Pretty Polly Stakes winner Thundering Nights for Joseph O'Brien and the Roger Varian-trained Zeyaadah.

The Group 1 action is rounded off in the Prix de la Foret (5.00) over seven furlongs, where Space Blues, Kinross and Pearls Galore spearhead a strong Anglo-Irish challenge for a race that has gone to the visitors in eight of the last ten editions.

Read more on the 2021 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe:

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