Once fertile farmland, it’s now the heart of the Milan commuter belt Our male lead, Pier Luigi (Gigi) Piras, grew up here. Buccinasco is an improbable location for the sort of romantic adventure Hollywood dreams of. This is the story of Sara Mascitelli, 29, and Pier Luigi Piras, 20 – the Bonnie and Clyde of the Milanese hinterland. He was eight years her junior with a long criminal record, a bleak future and a craving for affection. he was known as the beauty of Buccinasco, a respectable policewoman, wife and mother. Gracioso and Rhagaas (both owned by Sheikh Mohammed) and Tchaikovsky and Montjeu (both owned or part-owned by Michael Tabor) will be coupled in the betting.Chantilly card, page 11. The colt, though based in France, is trained by an Englishman, John Hammond, and owned by an Irish consortium.Pascal Bary, trainer of Falcon Flight, has won three of the last five Jockey-Clubs, with Celtic Arms, Ragmar and, last year, Dream Well Falcon Flight, unraced at two, is unbeaten in his two runs.

His stablemate Gracioso, by Nureyev, had Montjeu, another late Epsom defection, a length behind him in the Prix Lupin, but Montjeu, previously impressive in beating subsequent French Guineas winner Sendawar in the Prix Greffulhe, is expected to turn the tables on easier ground. The grey colt, like his owner Jean-Luc Lagardere’s Arc winner Sagamix a son of Linamix, is unbeaten in three runs and looked a smart prospect when winning the Prix Noailles in a style appropriate to his name. He will be tackling 12 furlongs for the first time but, being a son of Sadler’s Wells from a top-class family, will appreciate it, and is also blinkered for the first time.The likely favourite will be one of the home side, Slickly, representing Andre Fabre. Today’s challenger Tchaikovsky, from Aidan O’Brien’s stable is a late switch from Epsom. He was staying on well just behind Lucido and Daliapour in the Lingfield Derby Trial.The first of the two Jockey-Club successes from Ireland – and the first non-French winner was Assert in 1982, immediately followed by his compatriot Caerleon. He started in a Haydock handicap and then scored twice in France, first in a minor race over today’s course and distance and most recently in a Group Three contest at Longchamp.Royal Rebel, winner of a Newcastle maiden in April, produced his best performance when stepped up in distance on his most recent outing.

Nowhere To Exit, a son of Exit To Nowhere, has made marked improvement in his second season and is unbeaten in three outings. He carried his his head high that day as if not appreciating the fast ground, and today’s softer surface will suit him better. He joined the Dubai-based team after an easy victory on his only two-year-old run but was disappointing on his reappearance this term, beaten by All The Way at Newmarket. Three British-trained colts – Godolphin’s Rhagaas, John Dunlop’s Nowhere To Exit and Mark Johnston’s Royal Rebel – take on four from France and one from Ireland in the mile-and-a-half Group One contest.Rhagaas has the pedigree for the Jockey-Club part, if not yet the form, his maternal grandsire Darshaan having beaten his sire Sadler’s Wells in the 1984 renewal of the race.