By Tom Frary
Some of France's potentially top-class 3-year-old fillies line up for Sunday's G3 Prix Vanteaux at ParisLongchamp, with one of the least exposed being one of the most intriguing in Toujours (Fr) (Galileo {Ire}). Trained by Andre Fabre for Tabor, Magnier, Smith and Jooste, the bay was off the mark as expected on debut over this nine-furlong trip on testing ground at Chantilly at the end of October and although is an unknown quantity is held in high regard by her trainer who has already been successful in this six times. George Strawbridge's colours are sported by his acquisition Rock My Love (Ger) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}), who established a dominion over the rest of the juvenile fillies in Germany last season when taking the Listed Preis des Medienhauses DuMont Rheinland at Cologne in September and Baden-Baden's G3 Preis der Winterkonigin the next month. Now with Freddy Head, she has the form edge over several of these rivals including Al Shaqab Racing's unbeaten Jaylan (Scat Daddy) who is open to improvement after a latest success over 9 1/2 furlongs on Deauville's Polytrack Mar. 2.
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