Though there were just three runners for the Group Three bet365 Gordon Richards Stakes at Sandown, it proved a competitive race with Mostahdaf coming out on top.

Colt hands Prince Of Lir with his first stakes

Hong Kong star Gold-Fun will swipe at a slice of history on Sunday when he takes his European campaign to Deauville for the G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest.

Robert Cowell's unbeaten Royal Ascot winner Prince Of Lir is one of two British challengers among six runners in the Prix Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte on Sunday.

Two-year-old racing in France doesn’t really get going in earnest until Deauville next month but the Prix Robert Papin over five and a half furlongs at Maisons-Laffitte is the most important contest of its type so far this year across the Channel.