A big effort by unfancied Brits but Mosse wins another for the fifty-somethings

Horseracing is not really a team game, but there was a pleasurable moment for the British spectator in the closing stages of yesterday’s Prix d’Ispahan, as the two runners sent across the Channel surged to the head of proceedings.

Neither Tilsit nor My Oberon were fancied by punters, in view of their last-time-out disappointments, but here they were proving too quick for the local opposition and reviving memories of that pre-Covid summer when the French had a hard time holding on to any of their major prizes . . . until, that is, Skalleti mowed down the Brits to land his first Group 1 at the age of six.

Oh well, it's unattractive to cheer only for your countrymen, as Peter Moody reminded us last week, and such an outcome was probably on the cards in view of the hotter-than-July form of Jerome Reynier's yard, which had also scored with each of its previous four runners.