Mick Channon`s Shuwaib successfully hit the target in the Listed Prix Michel Houyvet over a mile and seven furlongs at Deauville today.
The hotpot also gave young Australian jockey Craig Williams a fairytale first ride on French soil by making all the running.
Bourgeois tried vainly to challenge inside the final furlong, but the winner, sent off a 1-2 chance on the pari-mutuel, was always going to hold on and won a shade cosily by three-quarters of a length.
