Verdon added to Grand Prix de Paris field Ed Dunlop's Red Verdon has been supplemented for his third Group One of the season in a third different country after being added to the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at Saint-Cloud. After being supplemented for the Investec Derby at Epsom, where he finished a creditable sixth of 16, he was then added to the Irish Derby where he managed to get get a lot closer to Harzand in claiming fourth. He is one of nine possibles in the Group One in which Aidan O'Brien has two possibles in Beacon Rock and Shogun Andre Fabre has three of the nine in Epsom eighth Cloth Of Stars, French Derby fourth Talismanic and the twice-raced Maniaco. "All three are likely to run," said Fabre. "Cloth Of Stars has been fine since Epsom. "Talismanic would enjoy a few showers that are forecast - after such a wet summer, we now want rain. "Maniaco missed his prep run for this but he is a very good horse in the making. I'm looking forward to running him." Man of the moment Jean-Claude Rouget could field Mekhtaal, who was well fancied for the French Derby but could finish only eighth. Pascal Bary's Spring Master and Pia Brandt''s Mont Ormel complete the list with John Gosden's Wings Of Desire a notable absentee.
