Last year's G3 Prestige S. winner Malabar (GB) (Raven's Pass), an also-ran in both the English and Irish 1000 Guineas', will step up to 10 furlongs for the G1 Prix de Diane at Chantilly June 14, according to trainer Mick Channon. Malabar finished fourth, beaten 6 1/2 lengths, in the English Guineas May 3 and was eighth in Ireland May 24.
“She had no luck in Ireland; she got murdered in the race and considering that I thought she ran really well,” Channon noted.
Malabar has run once previously in France, when a luckless fourth in the G1 Prix Marcel Boussac.
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