Chantilly proved less than satisfactory as a stand-in on the big day

For the British hordes at Arc weekend, read the Irish at the Cheltenham Festival. Winners came think and fast at Chantilly, with British stables landing four of the six Group 1 races on Sunday. But who came home with bulging wallets?

Only a small handful, to judge by the number of British-trained beaten favourites on Sunday. So Mi Dar was turned over at odds-on, Mecca’s Angel at 6-4 in the Prix de l'Abbaye and Postponed at 15-8, while the Aidan O’Brien-trained Whitecliffsofdover will have emptied British wallets when sinking at 2-1 in the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere.

It’s the same most years at Cheltenham. There’s a slew of Irish-trained winners even when raging favourites from that country are toppling like skittles in the alley. Only when Limato landed the odds in the Prix de la Foret did a British-trained favourite oblige, and since that was the last race on Sunday, precious few would have had the cash to bail themselves out.