Chantilly plays host to the G3 Prix Texanita on Wednesday, with the domestic 3-year-old sprinters having their say over the six-furlong strip. Al Shaqab Racing's Wooded (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) reverts to this trip for the first time, having shown smart juvenile form over a furlong further when a short-head runner-up to Kenway (Fr) (Galiway {GB}) in the G3 Prix la Rochette at ParisLongchamp in September and third in the G3 Prix Thomas Bryon at Saint-Cloud the following month. He faces Guy Pariente's Wanaway (Fr) (Galiway {GB}) who captured the 5 1/2-furlong Listed Prix Ronde de Nuit on heavy ground here Mar. 13 and who bids to provide her dam Matwan (Fr) (Indian Rocket {GB}) with a quickfire group-race double following the exploits of her 5-year-old son Batwan (Fr) (Kendargent {Fr}) in Monday's G3 Prix de Saint-Georges.
Juddmonte are represented by the Henri-Francois Devin-trained filly Alocasia (GB) (Kingman {GB}), who was runner-up to Tropbeau (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) in Deauville's G3 Prix Six Perfections in July before winning the 6 1/2-furlong Listed Prix Saraca at Maisons-Laffitte in September and finishing fifth in the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte the following month. Of the unexposed types, Prime Equestrian's Mutual (Fr) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) from the Christophe Ferland academy is an unknown quantity after his heavy-ground win in a six-furlong conditions event at Toulouse Mar. 9.
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