Veteran Cadran hero Mille Et Mille headlines tough-looking Listed heat

Prix Bedel (Listed) | 4yo+ | 1m4f | SKY

There are not many contemporaries of 2015 Arc hero Golden Horn still running on the Flat but Mille Et Mille – that year's Prix du Cadran winner and the last horse to score at Longchamp before the bulldozers moved in – is still going strong at the age of ten.

Carlos and Yann Lerner have been exemplary in the way they have kept Mille Et Mille fresh year after year and had him in good enough form to contest top staying races like the Kergorlay and the Cadran last term.

He has been dropped back to a mile and a half in two runs so far this campaign and it must be a concern that, over the shorter trip again here, he will be meeting no fewer that five opponents who were foaled after his finest hour on 2015 Arc day.

Fabrice Chappet's string appear in decent form and plenty of punters will be attracted to Skyward, who has an eyecatching row of wins next to his name, the most recent of which was earned at this trip on good ground at Saint-Cloud in December.

Chappet also fields San Huberto, who looked a non-stayer behind Technician in the Prix Royal-Oak over two miles and is now back in distance to the mile and a half of his third-placed effort behind Spanish Mission at Belmont Park.

Of those to have a run under their belt this season, Pappalino has the most interesting form having run third to subsequent Prix D'Harcourt third Simona on heavy ground in the Prix Exbury.

Andre Fabre appears to be on a confidence-boosting mission with Argyron, a gelding who would be difficult to place in Paris thanks to his distant second in a Listed race at Deauville two starts ago.

What the connections say

Carlos Lerner, trainer of Mille Et Mille
He's in good form but unfortunately he's getting on in years. We have to look for slightly easier races for him now, albeit his work is still very good in the mornings. It didn’t really work out taking him down to Cagnes so we will have to see how he goes.

Yvonne Vollmer, trainer of Monsieur Croco
We haven't asked too many serious questions of him in his work, so it would be difficult to say he is yet at 100 per cent. I don't think he is in quite the same form as when he won his Listed race last year, although his past performances entitle him to be thereabouts.

Jerome Reynier, trainer of Pappalino
The form of his third in the Exbury is working out well and he's in good form. It remains to be seen if he's better over 2,000 or 2,400 metres and this is quite a decent lineup. He's well drawn and is ready for this. He always gives his best and this has been a target for a while. All the lights are green and if it were to rain that would be even better. We gave him quite an attacking ride in the Exbury because I wasn't sure Simona would stay. That probably cost him finishing second.

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