Thunder Snow strides home in France Thunder Snow gained a well-deserved Group One success with a dominant performance in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud. The Saeed bin Suroor-trained colt had some top-notch form in the book after being beaten only two lengths when fourth to Churchill in the Dewhurst Stakes and a head second to subsequent Racing Post Trophy scorer Rivet in the Champagne Stakes. The Godolphin-owned juvenile backed up those displays in style, bounding clear in the final quarter-mile under Christophe Soumillon to see off Andrew Balding's South Seas by five lengths, with the Aidan O'Brien-trained Promise To Be True a length and three-quarters away in third. There was drama as the field left the stalls when Capchop unseated Pierre-Charles Boudot.
