G3 Prix Minerve

Entering Sunday's G3 Prix Minerve at Deauville off a success in the Listed Aphrodite S. at Newmarket July 16, Godolphin's Eternal Pearl (GB) (Frankel {GB}) was on top again with the class rise as less a problem as her odds of 9-10 suggested beforehand. Always travelling easily for William Buick under cover, the descendant of the G1 Prix Vermeille heroine Pearly Shells (GB) (Efisio {GB}) moved to the front with a furlong remaining and stayed on powerfully to score by two lengths from Queen Trezy (Fr) (Almanzor {Fr}). "She's learning...

Sunday, Deauville, France PRIX MINERVE-G3, €56,000, Deauville, 8-16, 3yo, f, 12 1/2fT, 2:54.11, hy. 1--WONDERFUL TONIGHT (FR), 123, f, 3, by Le Havre (Ire)                 1st Dam: Salvation (GB), by Montjeu (Ire)                 2nd Dam: Birdie (GB), by Alhaarth (Ire)                 3rd Dam: Fade (GB), by Persepolis (Fr)    1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€40,000 Ylg '18 ARAUG). O-Christopher N Wright; B-Ecurie Taos (Fr); T-David Menuisier; J-Tony Piccone. €28,000. Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-1, €51,592. *1/2 to Penjade (Fr) (Air Chief Marshal {Ire}), SW-US & MSP-Fr, $376,306. Werk Nick Rating: A+++....