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Team Calas' 3-year-old colt Rock Boy (Fr) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}), unbeaten in juvenile starts over a mile at Vichy and nine furlongs at Marseille-Borely last year, maintained his perfect record in Thursday's G3 Prix Djebel at Deauville and went by all six rivals inside the final quarter mile for a career high in the seven-furlong 2000 Guineas trial. Patiently ridden and settled at the tail of the field through halfway, the 15-2 chance inched closer when encouraged forward passing the two pole and kept on strongly under a drive once delivering his challenge with 150 metres remaining to outpoint last month's Listed Prix Montenica victor Loubeisien (Fr) (Kheleyf) by a length.

Rock Boy is the third of four foals and one of two scorers out of a winning half-sister to G3 Prix Thomas Bryon Makaan (Swain {Ire}) and stakes-winning G3 Prix du Lys placegetter Almail (Swain {Ire}). The February-foaled bay is a half-brother to G2 Derby Italiano third Alastor (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}) and an unraced 2-year-old colt by Recorder (GB). His second dam Khassah (GB) (Green Desert), herself a full-sister to Listed Prix Casimir Delamarre third Awaamir (GB), ran second in the G1 Fillies' Mile and is a granddaughter of GI Yellow Ribbon Invitational heroine Castilla (Bold Reason).

Thursday, Deauville, France
PRIX DJEBEL-G3, €80,000, Deauville, 4-7, 3yo, c/g, 7fT, 1:29.30, hy.
1–ROCK BOY (FR), 128, c, 3, by Rock of Gibraltar (Ire)
1st Dam: Frasque (Ire), by Iffraaj (GB)
2nd Dam: Khassah (GB), by Green Desert
3rd Dam: Kadwah, by Mr. Prospector
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (€16,000 Ylg '20 AROCT). O-Serge Mayan, Guy-Roger Petit, Michel Perret, Ecurie Ascot, Christian Faure, Henry Salemme, Richard Olivier, Richard Chotard, Serge Tardy, Thierry Gagliano, Ecurie des Dragons & Mme Elisabeth Mezquita; B-Legendary Rent Club (FR); T-Richard Chotard; J-Mickael Barzalona. €40,000. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, €61,500. *1/2 to Alastor (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}), GSP-Ity & SP-Fr, $128,351. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Loubeisien (Fr), 128, c, 3, Kheleyf–Lolif (Fr), by Loup Breton (Ire). (€35,000 2yo '21 OSAMAY). O-Le Haras des Sens, Ecurie Maxime Moczulski, Ecurie Mill Reef SAS & Christophe Ferland; B-Martial Delaplace (FR); T-Christophe Ferland. €16,000.
3–My Fancy (Fr), 128, c, 3, Myboycharlie (Ire)–Fancy Green (Fr), by Muhtathir (GB). O-Abdullah Saeed M Almaddah; B-Marbat LLC (FR); T-Pia & Joakim Brandt. €12,000.
Margins: 1, 3/4, 3/4. Odds: 7.50, 3.50, 2.60.
Also Ran: Liyann (Fr), Nesr Shalghoda (GB), Kingentleman (GB), Zack Halo (Ire). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, sponsored by TVG.

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First it was Agave, then Dreamflight and now Zellie (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) as the Andre Fabre-Olivier Peslier link-up continues apace in the new season. Al Wasmiyah Farm's G1 Prix Marcel Boussac heroine returns in the seven-furlong G3 Prix Imprudence at Deauville, a key trial for the upcoming mile Classics last won by a subsequent 1000 Guineas heroine in Natagora (Fr) (Divine Light {Jpn}) in 2008 and in 2015 by the eventual G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches scorer Ervedya (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}). Peslier is on record as saying that he likes to continue his partnerships with certain horses and in the absence of a full-time stable jockey, Fabre seems keen to employ his expertise and experience this term.

Zellie's opponents include Everest Racing, David Redvers and Barbara Keller's G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte winner and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf runner-up Malavath (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) and Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Thani's 'TDN Rising Star' Osmose (Fr) (Zoffany {Ire}), who has a mighty step up to make but is an unexposed Rouget representative. Enough said.

While the G3 Prix Djebel lacks the clout of the Imprudence, Team Calas's unbeaten Rock Boy (Fr) (Rock of Gibraltar {Ire}) comes away from the provinces to test his mettle against hardened colts with sights set on the Poule d'Essai des Poulains.

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