Weld and Hayes searching for French Group One

Search For A Song and Princess Zoe are amongst the star Irish names bidding to land Group One success in France this afternoon, live on Sky Sports Racing.

2.50 ParisLongchamp – Search For A Song goes again in Royal-Oak

The Dermot Weld-trained Search For A Song was fourth in the Prix Royal-Oak (2:50) 12 months ago and comes into this year’s event in excellent form, having ran a big race behind star stayer Kyprios last time out.

Tony Mullins’ stable star Princess Zoe would be a very popular winner and is another that has been chasing home Kyprios – she goes for a potential third Group One.

British interest comes in the shape of Hugo Palmer’s Rajinsky as well as Karl Burke’s Al Qareem, with the eyecatching jockey booking of Ryan Moore.

3.30 Ffos Las – Williams contender makes seasonal debut

Ffos Las enjoys an extra meeting this afternoon with the ground unsafe elsewhere, giving Evan Williams the chance to run Current Mood for the first time this season in a competitive handicap hurdle (3:30).