{"id":317523,"date":"2025-08-04T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317523\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:04:12","slug":"we-went-into-the-sussex-hoping-we-had-the-best-miler-in-europe-and-we-have-richard-hannon-targets-jacques-le-marois-with-rosallion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317523\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We went into the Sussex hoping we had the best miler in Europe – and we have’ – Richard Hannon targets Jacques le Marois with Rosallion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Hannon is more convinced than ever that\u00a0Rosallion<\/a> is the best miler in Europe following last week’s narrow Sussex defeat and will give him another chance to prove it in this month’s Aga Khan Studs Prix Jacques le Marois.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Group 1 winner at two and three, Rosallion has gone close at the top level this season including going down by a nose in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot.<\/p>\n

Last week, the four-year-old failed by just a neck to reel in Qirat<\/a>\u00a0, a 150-1 pacemaker, in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, where he pulled more than two lengths clear of Group 1 winners Henri Matisse, Docklands and odds-on favourite Field Of Gold, who was subsequently found to be lame.<\/p>\n

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