- Trainer beaten by his two sons in Group Ones at Curragh
- Mogul beats field including the Derby winner Serpentine
On an afternoon when his sons, Joseph and Donnacha, eclipsed him at the Curragh, Aidan O’Brien prospered in Paris on Sunday as Mogul landed the Group One Grand Prix de Paris and Anthony Van Dyck, the Derby winner last year, won for the first time in eight subsequent attempts in the Group Two Prix Foy.
Both of O’Brien’s winners at Longchamp had illustrious names in their wake. Mogul, ridden by Pierre-Charles Boudot, was four lengths in front of his stable companion Serpentine, the runaway Derby winner in July, an 11-length turnaround from the Epsom form. John Gosden’s outstanding stayer Stradivarius, meanwhile, could not cope with Anthony Van Dyck’s turn of foot at the end of a slowly run trial for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
