Valixir All The Rage For Marois Valixir has been cut to 7-2 from 9-2 by Cashmans for Sunday week´s Prix Jacques le Marois following strong support on Tuesday.The Cork-based firm took a bet of #2,000 from one of their noted ante-post customers on the Andre Fabre-trained colt for the Deauville Group One on August 14.The Queen Anne Stakes winner, who also scored at Maisons-Laffitte recently, is set to clash with unbeaten French sensation Divine Proportions, who was accordingly eased to 4-6.Coral also saw good money for Valixir and cut him to 3-1 from 7-2 and attribute the interest to the bullish words from his jockey.'Christophe Soumillon has made no secret of his confidence in this horse and punters have been quick to latch on to this,' said the firm´s spokesman David Stevens.Divine Proportions is hardly in need of any backhanded complements and is fully capable of promoting her own ability - as she showed at the Normandy track on Sunday when extending her unbeaten run to nine in the Prix d´Astarte.But 48 hours after that warm-up, she received a boost after a filly who finished well behind her in the French Oaks came out to win the Prix de Psyche at the course yesterday.In lifting the 10-furlong Group Three, Satwa Queen became the first beaten Prix de Diane contender to come out and win.Jean De Roualle´s charge, beaten eight lengths into seventh by Europe´s leading lady in the Chantilly Classic, scrambled home by a neck from Soumillon on Viane Rose.However, the Belgian rider earlier took the Listed Prix Ridgeway on Fabre´s colt Runaway.The next big-race action at Deauville comes on Sunday when the sprinters take centre stage in the Group One Prix Maurice de Gheest, won by Tim Easterby´s Somnus 12 months ago.? PA Sport
