The ground at Longchamp remained virtually unchanged on Tuesday morning, with an official penetrometer measurement of very soft, and a Goingstick reading which is soft down the back straight and around the two turns, and good to soft in the home straight.
Despite daytime temperatures in the mid-to-high teens centigrade and just 0.2 millimetres of rain on Monday, the ground only moved by one decimal point on the French scale, from 4.0 to 3.9.