Preview: France, Tuesday (1.20pm GMT)

Saint-Cloud: Prix la Camargo (Listed) 6f, 3yo fillies

GEORGE Baker confesses that there may be an element of “tilting at windmills” when Chepstow maiden winner Laurelita (Ioritz Mendizabal) faces a field of five far more experienced fillies.

“It’s a big ask but she’s in good form, she’s travelled over very well and there won’t be many six-runner Listed races with a black-type carrot around through the rest of the year,” he said. “We are definitely tilting at windmills but she did win her maiden very well and we hope she might be a bit better than her mark.”

Heading the opposition to Laurelita are the first two home in last October’s Group 3 Prix des Reservoirs at Deauville.

Stellar Path (Xavier Thomas-Demeaulte/Maxime Guyon) gets in with no penalty for that three-quarters of a length defeat of Kendazargent and her trainer believes he has found the perfect opportunity to start off her three-year-old career.

Thomas-Demeaulte said: “She’s done well through the winter. She carries the same weight as the rest which is what makes it such an ideal race for her to make her comeback.”

Kendazargent represents the same winning combination of Jean-Claude Rouget, Christophe Soumillon and owner Martin Schwartz as were successful 12 months ago in this race with Alterite.

That trio also have a solid chance an hour earlier when Group 3 placed Salai faces four rivals in the Prix Omnium II. 

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