Four-year-old Elusive Quality colt Time Prisoner landed his first Group race on Saturday when winning the G3 Prix de Ris-Orangis over six furlongs at Maisons-Laffitte just outside Paris.
The Darley-bred grey colt races in the colors of Sheikh Mohammed and is out of the Night Shift mare Zelanda, herself a Listed-winning sprinter who has already produced the Listed winner Pearly Grey to Elusive Quality’s sire Gone West.
Another good year for Elusive Quality has been headlined so far by Sepoy, the dual Group One-winning Australian juvenile, who also races for Darley. Other big-race winners for him in 2011 include Group Two winner Mr Big and Group Three winners Bullbars and Dynamic Blitz.
Earlier on the Masons-Laffitte card, Bernardini three-year-old Biondetti, a Group One winner in Italy as a juvenile, finished runner-up, beaten just a neck, in the G3 Prix Messidor over a mile.
