Charyn storms to impressive Prix Jacques le Marois triumph

Neil Morrice
August 11, 2024 2:38 pm

Group One delight at Deauville for Roger Varian and Silvestre de Sousa.

Charyn’s superb season continued as he ran out a convincing winner of the Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville.

Roger Varian’s grey has not put a foot wrong all year, winning the Listed Doncaster Mile on debut and then following up in the bet365 Mile at Sandown.

At Group One level at Newbury he was runner-up in the Lockinge, after which he went one better at the same level when landing the Queen Anne at Royal Ascot.

As a result he was well fancied for his Deauville assignment, where he was ridden by Silvestre de Sousa in an initial field of eight that was then depleted as Richard Hannon’s Haatem was a late withdrawal.

Inspiral, John and Thady Gosden’s runner, was not for the first time slow to hit her stride, but Charyn was always handy travelling in the slipstream of race leader Big Rock.

Two furlongs from home Varian’s four-year-old began to lengthen his stride and from then on there was clearly going to be no catching him, with the success coming by three lengths on the line from French 2000 Guineas winner Metropolitan, with dual Marois heroine Inspiral in third.