Dettori touched base in Yorkshire via a punishing weekend schedule which saw him claim Grade One honours in Canada before jetting off to Longchamp for Sunday's Arc fixture.

"I'm absolutely exhausted," said the Italian jockey. "It's been a long few days."

Dettori still had enough left in the tank to take this two-mile-two-furlong affair aboard Godolphin's four-year-old, who was not beaten far in last season's St Leger.

Veracity assumed control inside the final furlong and was a length and a quarter too good for Bogside Theatre, who will now run in the Cesarewitch if there is ease in the ground at Newmarket.

"He needed the run at Chester last time and the trip was also too short," Tony Garth, Saeed bin Suroor's head lad, said of the 7-4 winner.

David Brown revealed plans for an assault on next season's William Hill Lincoln after Mangham's pillar-to-post triumph in the Trinidad & Tobago Handicap.

The Paul Mulrennan-ridden three-year-old (11-1) showed plenty of pace from the head of affairs to comfortably defeat Jack Dawkins by a length.

"Now we've got him right, we'll probably give him a break and train him for the Lincoln," said the West Yorkshire handler.

Similarly positive tactics to that of Mangham had the desired effect upon Go Go Green, who provided Stewart Parr with a third winner from as many runners in the Soca Warriors Nursery.

John Quinn's Madamlily effortlessly stepped up to a mile and a quarter in the EBF Saturday Racing At Santa Rosa Maiden Stakes, and the much-travelled Ogre fairly bolted up in the Buccoo Reef "Premier" Claiming Stakes under a belligerent Jimmy Quinn.

"Absolutely brilliant" is how Sir Peter O'Sullevan described Zarkava's victory in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

And he should know, as 'The Voice of Racing' called home many outstanding winners of the Longchamp showpiece in his role as commentator for the BBC including Ribot, Sea Bird II, Mill Reef and Allez France.

"I thought it was absolutely brilliant. How could you think anything else. She's right up there with the top ones," he said.

"It was a very accomplished piece of horsemanship by Christophe Soumillon as he could very easily have been unshipped soon after the start. He was criticised for getting her in among the traffic but he did right. The point was her brilliance enabled him to take the opportunity when it occurred.

"She is an enormous credit to her owner the Aga Khan's foresight, to his gifted ways and his selection of handlers.

"He's one of racing outstanding stars. I'm not very keen on comparisons on the different generations, but Zarkava's was a marvellous performance."

Betting pundit John McCririck also lavished praise on the unbeaten filly.

"There is no question about it, she's electrified racing, Zarkava is the name on everybody's lips right around the world," he said.

"But when Dancing Brave and Sea Bird won their Arc's they swept right around the outside with nobody near them, Soumillon kept to the inside and it could have gone wrong – what would we be saying now?"

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