The long awaited meeting of hikers Notable speech And Charyn will take place at ParisLongchamp on September 8 after both were among the seven contenders announced for the €400,000 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp (G1).
Both colts will be looking for their third Group 1 win of the season at this trip, and will be joined by last season’s Vincent O’Brien National Stakes (G1) winner Henry Longfellow .
Charyn made her breakthrough in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) at Royal Ascot and then eased through her first generation of classic horses by three lengths over the winner of the French Guineas (G1). Urban in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1) last month.
For both of those wins, Silvestre de Sousa retained his place on the back of Charyn, who will be joined by a strong second-string line-up from owner Nurlan Bizakov in the form of Ramadan from Christopher Head Stadium.
Notable Speech overcame a puzzling seventh place in the St James’s Palace Stakes (G1) to post an impressive turnaround in the Sussex Stakes (G1), a race in which Henry Longfellow could only finish fourth after being disqualified from the race.
Godolphin also fields Tribal people a multiple winner at group 2 and group 3 levels, while Kelina will bid to add to her group 1 at the same location she occupied Kinross in last season’s Prix de la Foret (G1) over a seven-furlong track.
Caramelito rhythm Dock at Listed level over track and distance in May and continued his progress with a Group 3 success in the Prix Messidor (G3) at Chantilly in July.
Official rainfall on Longchamp’s Grande Piste was 3.7 (souple) on the durometer on the morning of September 6, approximately good to soft on the GoingStick gauge, while there is a risk of a further 2-4mm of rain on Saturday.
Conditions improved significantly on September 5 when the track received 25 mm of rain.
