3.25 Emirates Poule d’Essai des Pouliches (Group 1) (3yo Fillies) 1m

This fillies’ classic is being billed as a duel between Coolmore and Godolphin, the training behemoths of Aidan O’Brien and André Fabre. Mother Earth, the proven Group 1 performer battle-hardened after eight previous pattern race starts for O’Brien and Philomene, who has run only twice and whose solitary stakes outing resulted in a bloodless Group 3 triumph over four overmatched rivals at the distance of 10 and a half furlongs opposes for Fabre.