"L'Ami Serge winning the French Champion Hurdle was a very difficult thing to do and Bristol De Mai winning a second Betfair Chase when he beat Might Bite and Native River was a huge moment.

French diplomats have acknowledged that talks were underway for the transfer of Serge Atlaoui, a 61-year-old Frenchman arrested in 2005 at a drugs factory outside the capital Jakarta. The ...