Ballydoyle's Found the Boussac heroine

Found wore down main market rival Ervedya to clinch the Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp for trainer Aidan O'Brien and jockey Ryan Moore.

A winner on debut before finishing a close third in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh three weeks ago, Found was the 9-4 favourite in Paris and was always travelling sweetly on the heels of the leaders.

Following a sedate early gallop, outsider Thank You Bye Bye went to the lead to raise the tempo before the home turn, but Ervedya was the first of the big guns to commit for home and Found swiftly went in pursuit, wearing her down in the last 100 yards to seal a comprehensive victory.

In a big result for the Irish challengers fellow raider Jack Naylor, from the Jessica Harrington yard, held every chance before running on well for a fine third.

O'Brien said: "She is a lovely big filly, with a temperament to match, and I would think she will have no trouble getting a mile and a quarter and maybe a mile and a half, as she is by Galileo.

"Along with that she has plenty of natural pace, certainly enough to be a Guineas filly, knowing that she will hopefully get better over further.

"I'd imagine that will be it for the season, but the lads will decide. She's a very exciting filly."

Coolmore partner Michael Tabor, in whose colours the winner ran, said: "She is a horse for next year and hopefully will be even better as a three-year-old.

"She will definitely get further than this and I thought she did it really well today, even though the ground might have been a little bit firmer than ideal."

Jean-Claude Rouget said of the runner-up: "I thought she was going to win but the winner was too strong at the end."

Harrington said of Jack Naylor: "She only cost 10 and a half grand and she's come a long way since winning a little race at Roscommon. She's gone from strength to strength and was doing her best work at the end.

"I think she'll be a mile-and-a-half horse next year, so I'll start her off over a mile. I'll enter her for the English Guineas and that's it for her year."