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Keeping it simple on the 6-5 favourite Mandanaba (Fr) (Ghaiyyath (Ire), Mickael Barzalona allowed the exciting Francis-Henri Graffard-trained homebred to roll from the front and capture Sunday's G3 Al Shira'aa Racing Prix Vanteaux at ParisLongchamp. Sufficiently impressive on her debut at Chantilly in November to earn TDN Rising Star status, Princess Zahra Aga Khan's daughter of her triple Group 1 winner Mandesha (Fr) (Desert Style {Ire}) was in dominant mood throughout.

Despite the game effort of Juddmonte's Listed Prix la Camargo winner Flaming Stone (GB) (Kingman {GB}), the first stakes winner for her exciting second-season sire scored by 3/4 of a length, with a telling 3 1/2-length margin back to White Birch Farm's G3 Prix des Reservoirs scorer Gezora (Fr) (Almanzor {Fr}) in third. Despite covering the first five furlongs faster than the G3 Prix la Force winner Cualificar (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), she was able to close out the final three furlongs in 34.80 and beat the colt's time in the preceding race.

“She is a lovely filly who loves to be in a good rhythm, so we wanted to let her do her own thing,” Graffard explained. “It was a good performance, but I'm not sure we will go further in trip with her and we might even revert to a mile. Let's wait and see how she comes out of this one, let's also see the results of the other trials for fillies before making a decision.”