The six-year-old mare, trained in France by Alain de Royer-Dupre and ridden by Christophe Lemaire, won comfortably by three lengths.

The 7-2 shot, runner-up 12 months ago, came out on top from Rob Roy (20-1), with Hurricane Run, the 9-4 favourite, a head away in third. Derby winner Sir Percy finished unplaced.

With no natural front-runner or pacemaker in the field, Hurricane Run was sent into the lead by Mick Kinane, with Notnowcato and Sir Percy, tracked by Pride, close up.

There was little change in the order until the Dip when Pride made her move on the stands side. Hitting the front at the furlong marker, she galloped on strongly up the hill to run out a convincing winner.

Lemaire told Channel 4 Racing: "She was very relaxed behind Sir Percy and when I asked her she did it very well.

Royer-Dupre added: "We have known for a long time she was a marvellous filly, but she has had problems as she can pull and has to come from behind. Today, she was in the perfect place. It has took us a long time to learn how to train the filly!

"I was not disappointed with her in the Arc because the ground was firm. They had rain everywhere in Paris except at Longchamp."

Elsewhere at Newmarket, in-running betting was seen at its very best in the Dewhurst Stakes, where the Jim Bolger-trained Teofilo maintained his unbeaten record with a thrilling defeat of the second favourite, the Aidan O'Brien-trained Holy Roman Emperor.

Sent off the well backed 11/8 favourite, Teofilo was produced a furlong out and quickened up well. However, he failed to shake off the O'Brien runner, who appeared to suffer some bad luck in running.

The two settled down to fight out the finish and 100 yards from the line it appeared the O'Brien runner was set for victory - prompting punters on Betfair to offer 43-1 about Teofilo and also tempt some into taking odds of 1-10 about Holy Roman Emperor.

However, in a driving finish, Teofilo's jockey, Kevin Manning, managed to get one final effort from his charge and got up on the line to win by a head.