The near impossible Oaks-Diane double
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Happily could enable the Coolmore operation to complete the prestigious Oaks-Prix de Diane Longines double in the same season {in the event of victory at Chantilly}. However, capturing both fillies’ classics in a single season is even more difficult than annexing the Epsom Derby and the Qipco Prix du Jockey Club in the same time scale.
The colours of Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum were the last to do the Oaks-Prix de Diane Longines double following the respective triumphs of Unite and Indian Skimmer at Epsom and Chantilly in 1987.