Jan lands Group One at Saint-Cloud Aidan O'Brien's Jan Vermeer made every yard of the running to provide Ballydoyle with yet another juvenile Group One victory in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud. The stable second-string on jockey bookings as Johnny Murtagh picked Midas Touch, the lightly-raced Montjeu colt streaked away inside the final quarter of a mile to come home in isolation. Most of the pre-race attention was focused on Rosanara, winner of the Prix Marcel Boussac, but Alain de Royer-Dupre's filly never looked like winning at any stage. Prizefighting, reappearing only six days after making a winning debut at Kempton, ran well for a long way for John Gosden but it was Godolphin's Emerald Commander who came home a creditable second, albeit well held behind the Colm O'Donoghue-ridden winner. O'Brien had already won the Dewhurst with Beethoven and the Racing Post Trophy with St Nicholas Abbey, and the winner is now 10-1 second-favourite behind the latter for the Derby with Ladbrokes.
