Measure Of Time is SW6 for Gleneagles after winning the Prix Michel Houyvet (2800m) at Deauville.
Settled just behind the early speed in the field of six, Measure Of Time looked tapped for toe when the field fanned into the home straight before digging in under Pierre-Charles Boudot and staying on strongly to edge the favourite Zeyrek (Sea The Stars) by a head with Manoucheer (Alderflug) three-quarters of a length away third.
Inbred 3×3 to Sadler’s Wells and Nureyev, the Andre Fabre-trained Measure Of Time is the best winner to date for Inch Perfect (Theatrical), an unraced sister to dual Irish Listed winner Stage Affair.
Inch Perfect is also a three-quarter sister to Gr1 Santa Ana Handicap winner Pharma (Theatrical), Gr2 winner and sire Hap (Theatrical) and Belva (Theatrical), the dam of six-time Gr1 winner and sire English Channel (Smart Strike) and granddam of Gr2 Rockfel Stakes at Newmarket winner Lucida (Shamardal) and Gr3 Commonwealth Stakes at Keeneland winner Bobby’s Wicked One (Speightstown).
The granddam is US Listed winner Wooing (Stage Door Johnny), a half-sister to Champion Sprinter Committed (Hagley), twice a winner of the Prix de l’Abbaye.
Champion at 2 and 3 in Europe, Gleneagles (Galileo) stands at Coolmore in Ireland.