Mossie did well!
BAUN SUPREMACY IN ABBAYE
Benbaun has made the Curragh his home-from-home but he could not have picked a better place to collect a rare 'away' success than by spearheading a British-dominated Prix de l'Abbaye at Longchamp.
Six times victorious at the Irish track, it has been over three years since he won anywhere else and he has given trainer Mark Wallace plenty of anxious moments.
A predilection for fast ground had been one of the potential stumbling blocks for Benbaun (13-2) but Wallace was happy after taking a look at the track.
There was not much to worry about once the five-furlong dash started and Pat Smullen got first run on Kingsgate Native to power home by two lengths.
Last year's winner Desert Lord was the same distance away in third, with Moss Vale and 2003 hero Patavellian rolling back the years for a British-trained clean sweep of the first five places.
Newmarket-based Irishman Wallace said: "We've looked after him and haven't run him in every race.
"We were worried about the ground but we walked the track and it wasn't too soft, so we thought we'd take our chance.
"He burst (a blood vessel) at Royal Ascot, so we were worried it might happen again.
"The vets have done a great job as he's just had niggly problems all the way through.
"I've been training four and a half years, this is my first Group One, so it's a dream come true.
"He's definitely going to Hong Kong in December - if they invite him and I think they might! Then we might go to Australia. He's got very few miles on the clock, so we will try and come back next year."
John Best's Kingsgate Native, who broke the mould by winning the Nunthorpe Stakes as a juvenile, proved the effort was no fluke.
His rider Jimmy Quinn reported: "The winner went away and was always holding me.
"He handled the ground OK but on good ground he is even better.
"The placings might have been different with another 12 months on his back."