The Gerry Ryan-owned Normandy Bridge made the best possible start to his career his career with a dominant win in the Prix de Fontenoy at Longchamp on Thursday, the race that kick-started the careers of Waldgeist, Victor Ludorum and Maxios.
The Group III Sky High Stakes (1900m) at Rosehill Gardens was contested, in the main, by a race-hardened bunch of old professionals and it was the turn of the rejuvenated 7-year-old gelding Auvray (FR) to earn his reward.
