Caen

Well-regarded but often asked to take on too much, LEMON TREE (6) enjoys a very good entry on the front line here, will be competitively-shod, with Yoann Lebourgeois in the bike, and can impose for the first time since December 2024. JOYCE DELTO (5), though, left quite the impression on her recent re-entry and makes her Caen debut with legitimate ambition. JEANNETTE PRIORY (11) may be 25m worse off but she has won 2 of her last 3 clockwise starts and must be taken seriously. Although eliminated in his last 2, IVRIG VIKING (8) showed his form at Vincennes, has been reconfigured for the occasion, and with application should not disappoint. KOOL DES CHAMPS (7) is back under harness after being trounced in the other code, will be barefoot this time, and the 25m head-start will do his prospects no disservice.