Better Together continues dream Deauville record

Andre Fabre secured a quickfire Pattern race double when three-year-old filly Better Together (Oasis Dream) proved much the best in the Gr.3 Prix de Lieurey over 1600m at Deauville yesterday.

Taken from the European Bloodstock News, 17th August 2025:

Fresh from securing an unsurpassed seventh win in the Gr.3 Prix Gontaut-Biron with First Look, Fabre was winning a record-extending eighth Prix de Lieurey with Better Together, who was improving her record at Deauville to four wins from five attempts. Settled in mid-division by Alexis Pouchin as Ollie Sangster’s Gr.1 1000 Guineas third Simmering made the running, she was one of the first off the bridle as the seven runners straightened up for home. However, she gradually found top gear and powered ahead after hitting the front 200m from the finish. She saluted the judge three and a half lengths ahead of Relaxx, who stayed on well to grab second from Simmering. Well-fancied Polyvega badly missed the break and was never a factor.

Bred and raced by Juddmonte, she had won the Listed Prix Zeddaan on her final outing as a two-year-old and the Gr.3 Prix Imprudence on her first run of this season, both over 1400m. She then finished fifth in the Gr.1 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and sixth in the 2100m Gr.1 Prix de Diane, appearing to fail for lack of stamina on the latter occasion. Yesterday’s convincing display suggests she is well worth another crack at Gr.1 company and she holds an entry in the 1600m Prix Jean Romanet a week today.

The second Stakes winner on the card out of a Dansili mare, Better Together is one of five winners out of the Listed-placed French winner Shared Account. That makes her a full-sister to the Gr.2 May Hill Stakes-placed Sand Share and a half-sister to both the Gr.3 Prix des Reservoirs winner Pocket Square and the British Listed winner Yesyes. Shared Account is in turn a full-sister to the Gr.1 Grand Prix de Paris winner and sire Zambezi Sun and the French Listed winner Zero Gravity (dam of Andrew Balding’s Gr.1-winning filly and Gr.1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe hopeful Kalpana) and a half-sister to the Gr.2 Prix Guillaume d’Ornano winner Kalabar.