With the main card just finished at Chantilly today.  One thing I noticed was a lot of the horses that either won or finished in the first three, raced vey prominently.  The last winner Alpine Star made all the running in the 3.02.  She set the fractions, and never looked like getting beat.  I have noticed since the return of the racing from France, that Pierre Charles Boudot is riding with great confidence, and he seems to be the go to man for Andre Fabre.  He still uses Mickael Barzalona a lot on the Godolphin horses, I believe Barzalona is still retained by my old firm.

I put a few in the tracker today, who were given far too much to do, Galawi, who started second favorite for the 12.07- a 10f maiden, was one horse that in my opinion, should of won.  He was sat too far back, and it was a poorly judged ride by Maxime Guyon. The winner Bois D’argent was heavily backed into favoritism, and well ridden by Boudot, he got his mount up right near the line to win by a neck.

Not far off the first race at Marseille-Borelly, I did think the opening race would go the way of Moonlightpainter, who at around 3/1, is one I am going to back.

More tomorrow.