ParisLongchamps best bet: Conditions tailor-made for Rogue Millennium
15:50 ParisLongchamp: Prix de l’Opera Longines(1 mile 2 furlongs)
Meanwhile, connections of Rogue Millennium will surely be encouraged by the quickening conditions given that this filly’s three career wins have been achieved on good-firm (twice) and good.
She has shown the speed to win the Group 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes at Royal Ascot (in June this year) over a mile as well as the stamina to win the Listed Oaks Trial at Lingfield.
She has also more recently confirmed herself as a top-class filly with a career-best effort on her latest outing to finish runner-up of 12 in the Group 1 Matron Stakes at Leopardstown.
On that occasion, the only one to beat her was the extremely classy Tahiyra, who is rated 118, while the only other one to have beaten Rogue Millennium in three runs on decent ground so far this season (figures 212) was Free Wind in the Group 2 Middleton Stakes at York in May.
Clearly, a very classy filly on top of the ground, Rogue Millennium will have conditions very much in her favour today, in contrast to many of her market rivals.
In addition, Rogue Millenium is already proven over today’s course and distance, having finished a close-up third of 10 on unsuitably testing ground in a Group 3 back in April.
Under her new regular partner Danny Tudhope, Rogue Millennium looks a good-value bet to register her first Group 1 success under these ideal conditions.
- Tip advised by Steve Jones who runsCD Systems Daily Bargain onTipstrr
Of the others, Lumiere Rock will go very well if the new cheekpieces work as well as they did on their first application when she drew three lengths clear of ten rivals to win the Group 2 Blandfors Stakes at the Curragh three weeks ago.
Her well-beaten opposition was headed by one of today’s main market rivals, Jackie Oh, who admittedly found herself too far back.
Nevertheless, it was an impressive performance from Lumiere Rock, whose previous best saw her finish second of 17 in the Group 2 Ribblesdale Stakes over a mile and a half at Royal Ascot, so she will have no problem with this quickening surface.
