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The weekend of Group 1s past went from the Cox Plate on Saturday morning to something called the Criterium International on Sunday afternoon. It was a case of from Winx to forty winks.

There were actually two French Group 1 races for two-year-olds this weekend, both with ‘Criterium’ in the title. Keeping up with the Criteriums proved little more interesting than doing the same with the Kardashians.

The Sunday version, over seven furlongs at Chantilly, was won by Royal Meeting, a Saeed Bin Suroor-trained colt who had broken his maiden last time out. If you are playing along at home, you will remember that another French Group 1 for two-year-olds, the Prix Jean Luc-Lagardere, was also won by a maiden graduate trained by Saeed, Royal Marine (this was the race they used to call the Grand Criterium, if that helps).