Mqse De Sevigne notches second consecutive Prix Rothschild
Mqse De Sevigne won the Prix Rothschild at Deauville Racecourse on Sunday for the second year in a row, and this time it wasn’t that close.
Always moving like a winner, Mqse De Sevigne turned a pacestalking trip under Alexis Pouchin into a one-length Rothschild victory, her third win a row and fifth in six races. Her lone defeat during that span was a second-place finish behind Inspiral in the Sun Chariot Stakes last fall.
Mqse De Sevigne won the 2023 Rothschild by just a head. Run over a straight mile, the race falls short of her best distance, and the 5-year-old mare’s two wins to begin her 2024 campaign came in 1 1/8-mile races. A year ago, she went on from the Rothschild to capture the Prix Jean Romanet over 1 1/4 miles, and trainer Andre Fabre has that mid-August Deauville fixture as a target again this summer.
But instead of moving back to a mile for a race like the Sun Chariot, Mqse De Sevigne, bound for broodmare duty when her season has concluded, will have her career finale in the 1 1/2-mile Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe this October.
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All credit to Mqse De Sevigne, who has turned into a metronome, never missing a beat regardless of racecourse or race distance, but this Rothschild wasn’t one for the record books. Runner-up Excellent Truth may be progressive, but to date has established herself more as a Group 3 type than a filly for top-level competition.
Favored at odds-on, Mqse De Sevigne received no challenge at all from third choice Blue Rose Cen, who tried to follow the winner’s move with about 1 1/2 furlongs remaining but quickly flattened out. Blue Rose Cen checked in last, the third poor performance of her 4-year-old season after the filly won multiple Group 1s at age 3. Kelina, heroine of the Prix de la Foret on the Arc undercard last year, fared little better, checking in sixth.
Mqse De Sevigne is by Siyouni out of Penne, Sevres Rose, and she campaigns for Edouard de Rothschild, whose family name Sunday’s contest bears. Fabre has kept Mqse De Sevigne fresh and happy into the summer, and the mare stands poised to continue her run of success into autumn.
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