Dreamloper Takes Home Prix d'Ispahan Crown at Longchamp

Dreamloper  secured the first group 1 victory of her career and continued jockey Kieran Shoemark's brilliant week with a stunning success in the May 29 Prix d'Ispahan (G1) at Longchamp.

Outsider Wally  stayed on to take second with favorite Pretty Tiger  a neck back in third, while last year's QIPCO Champion Stakes (G1) winner, Sealiway , was a disappointing fifth of the six runners.

The 5-year-old mare Dreamloper was a narrow winner of the Betfair Exchange Dahlia Stakes (G2) on her comeback at Newmarket this month but put clear daylight between her rivals this time as she stormed to a two-length success under Shoemark, who won the featured Betfred John of Gaunt Stakes (G3) at Haydock on Saturday.

Her success gave trainer Ed Walker the second top-level win of his career, having won the Darley July Cup (G1) last year with Starman , and it was the same for Shoemark also following Lady Bowthorpe 's Qatar Nassau Stakes (G1) victory last season.

"Kieran was brilliant on her today," Walker said. "She's never relaxed like that in a race before and he got her beautifully switched off, then pressed the button at exactly the right time...There are lots of options now she's beaten the boys. I know Sealiway probably didn't get his ground, while it played to our strengths, but she's beaten some very good horses there."

More lofty targets could await the daughter of Lope De Vega , and she was cut to 16-1 (from 25) for the Coral-Eclipse Stakes (G1) at Sandown in July by Paddy Power, but Walker is eyeing up a tilt at the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood or a possible return to France.

"There's the Prix Rothschild and the Prix Jean Romanet at Deauville, and I wouldn't be afraid to go a mile and a quarter," he added. "A mile and a quarter at Goodwood, where four furlongs of it is downhill, the Nassau could be the perfect race for her."