THE overseas domination of France’s top two-year-old races has been much less prevalent this season and the home team gained another pair of contenders for autumn’s Group 1 tests when Ecrivain and Savarin both took their records to a perfect two-from-two in Sunday’s two Group 3 juvenile races over a mile at ParisLongchamp.

Ecrivain, a Wertheimer brothers homebred son of Lope De Vega, looked clueless in the early stages of his Deauville debut yet still somehow managed to win. Much more on the ball here in the Prix des Chenes, he scored without jockey Maxime Guyon having to resort to his whip.