The English Cambridgshire winner Pasternak will run in Saturday's Golden Pages Handicap at Leopardstown. The Sir Mark Prescott-trained five-year-old was runner-up in last Saturday's John Smiths Cup at York, but Prescott said yesterday: "He definitely runs at Leopardstown and George Duffield will ride."
It will be Pasternak's first appearance in Ireland, but Prescott has a fine record at Leopardstown with his multi-Group race-winning Wizard King.
Xaar, unraced since his 2,000 Guineas flop at Newmarket in May, is among seven acceptors for the Group Two Prix Eugene Adam at Maisons-Laffitte on Sunday.
Europe's star juvenile of 1997 may face Henry Cecil's St James's Palace Stakes winner, Dr Fong, who was third in the Prix Jean Prat on a prior French visit.
The other British acceptor is Paul Cole's Evening World.
Frankie Dettori recorded a 33 to 1 hat-trick at Yarmouth yesterday. The former champion scored on the John Gosden-trained pair Migrate and Niki before enjoying an armchair ride when wearing the blue Godolphin silks on Doomna in the EBF Tunstall Fillies Conditions Stakes. Doomna was sent off at 2 to 7 and backers never had an anxious moment.
