The only visitor to the Qatar Prix Chaudenay among the eight protagonists of this group II for 3 years, this Saturday 2024 at ParisLongchamp, has the first chance. Illinoistrained in Ireland by Aidan-Patrick O’Brien, is a scarecrow in this competition contested over the distance of 3,000 meters, given the solid credentials he presents. We, French, very early on got to know the son of Galileo. In 2023, at the age of 2, he participated in the Critérium de Saint-Cloud, obtaining a promising third place in a group I won by his training companion, Los Angeles (departing this Sunday from the Arc de Triomphe). This season, the uterine brother of Danedream (winner of the Arc in 2011) won a Group II (Queen’s Vase) at Ascot (England) before finishing second at Longchamp in a Grand Prix de Paris (Gr. I) pinned by a certain Sauceby getting ahead Deliusanother classy colt with high pretensions, on Sunday, at the start of the major event of the weekend at the Bois de Boulogne racecourse. His second place in the St-Léger (Gr. I) at Doncaster demonstrates his good physical condition. If successful on Saturday at Longchamp, Illinois would allow its developer to enter his name on the Prix Chaudenay prize list for the first time, despite 76 groups won in France, including 59 groups I. Columbuswinner of the Prix de Lutèce, his first group (III), “arrives in good shape and good condition”, according to his trainer, Christophe Ferland. Shamarkanda son ofHarzand et Shamkala (winner of group III), from a beautiful maternal line of Her Highness Aga Kahn, third in the final preparatory to this group II, has her place on the podium, before her passage to the Arc Arqana sales, this Saturday in Saint-Cloud.
