IT has not been the best of seasons for the John and Thady Gosden yard and another of the older horses continued to disappoint when last season’s St Leger favourite Arrest was soundly beaten at odds-on in the Group 2 Lucien Barriere Grand Prix de Deauville over an extended mile and a half at Deauville.

Victory went to the German runner, the four-year-old filly Quantanamera, trained by Andreas Suborics. The daughter of Lope De Vega, swept past Arrest a furlong and a half out and went on to win by four lengths. The conditions were given as very soft.

The mile Group 3 Barriere Prix Quincey went to the new combination of winning jockey James Doyle and trainer Hamad Al Jehani for Wathnan Racing when Make Me King, a four-year-old Dark Angel gelding, was two and a half lengths too good for the favourite, Topgear. The winner was stepping up from handicap company having begun his season at Meydan and recording his only win in a Newcastle handicap in June.

The Group 3 Barriere Prix de Meautry over six furlongs had a British one-two when Karl Burke picked up another French success curtesy of the Cliff Lines-ridden Spycatcher who beat Clive Cox’s James’s Delight by a neck.

The favourite, Beauvatier, placed in Group 1s on his last two outings, was a length and a quarter back in third.