I'll be off into Wexford for some real racing this eve ..it's about 25 degrees too warm for me but it should make for a good evening, hopefully they watered enough or it will be like running on tarmac! I like Pollywollydoodle at 7's in the 8 o clock going chasing now, she has form around here and has been highly tried from 19f to 24f, I thought she shaped better over 24 hurdling but she races prominent enough so with Wexford being a sharp track, I think she can possibly give this field the slip around the top of the hill and hopefully win.
Not for the Aussies. They've spent a month training in wetsuits in the Northern Territories trying to get an edge.
Excuse my ignorance on this and hopefully the lot of you, with far better knowledge of the game than me can enlighten me but does that mean that the Arc just isn't that good a race or did Treve just peak at the right time and is now on the decline?
You would think the Aussies would be used to it wouldn't ya but it should be just nice for them both..
The Arc WAS a good race which Treve won well. She may be on the decline, although the trainer feels that she isn't showing her customary sparkle (why do they always say that AFTER a race?) And don't forget that the Arc was run over 2f more on soft ground. I don't think Treve lost too much in that defeat, and may well come back a strong as ever with conditions more to her liking
We will never see the explosive filly that won the Diane and Arc again, might still be up to winning a weak King George but she will never be the same horse, the fire is gone. Hindsight is a great thing but when they seen she didnt have the same zest in her work they should have retired her before a ball was kicked this season. Best 3yo filly ive seen and I doubt ill see one better in a hurry, maybe she can salvage the season in the King George and Vermille but I would rather they just admitted she is not the same horse and retired her.
It takes a very good horse to win an Arc, any Arc. But the weight for age allowance could be said to favour 3 yolds, and especially 3 yold fillies. However, that wasn't a desperate run by Treve. So far she has disappointed twice this season but it's too early to say she hasn't trained on. It could be that she was feeling something, possibly due to the fast ground. All the stars need to be aligned to win a Gp1, and today, for her, they weren't. for The Fugue, however...
Cheers guys my knowledge isn't great on these sort of things and I'm just a little bit gutted she got beat today, I wanted her to come over and just destroy the field
What an incredibly game performance from the filly. Makes up for the disappointing performances of That Is The Spirit and Certify.
Frankie Dettori has obviously been spending time at the O’Brien School Of Excuses. He trotted out a load of nonsense when Treve was beaten in the Prix Ganay and he could not come up with anything worth hearing today either. If he felt something was amiss whilst cantering to the start, why did he not have the vet look at her? Treve has an electric turn of foot when everything else is getting stuck in the soft ground. I was amazed to hear Criquette Head-Maarek claim that the ground was very fast when she won the Prix de Diane last year. What was she on that day? Perhaps she does not understand that French going reports are always very generous, so when it says “bon” (good) that is usually nearer to what we would consider good to soft. I cannot recall the last time I saw the going reported as anything quicker than “bon” at any of the massively overwatered big French tracks. If you want fast ground you need to look at one of the smaller provincial tracks that statistically make up most of French racing. We may have seen Treve’s first and last appearance on these shores as she will not be back for the Champion Stakes as it is two furlongs shorter than the Arc; and there are plenty of mile-and-a-half races for her to contest at home.
Must say I really, really like the look of 8.30 Wexford Annie Other 4/1. A Wexford specialist with 4 course wins to her name, Annie Other looks to have been completely plotted up in a bid to win this for the second year running. A comfortable winner 12 months ago (did make a bad blunder at the last fence) off a 5lb lower mark of 113, Annie Other would definitely have gone close off a mark of 123 in an attempt to follow that success up when making a bad error two out over a 2m6f trip that probably stretches her (only beaten 5.5L) and she disappointed on her final chase last season before running ok in two flat contests. Having taken the rest of the season off in proper quick ground, Annie Other was disappointing on her seasonal debut over hurdles on unsuitable soft ground last month but I think that effort can be forgotten. Returned to fences at her favourite track and on rattling quick ground, I think she's definitely on a very workable mark of 118 and if spot on for this I think she'll take an awful lot of beating is her jumping holds up.
I know the feeling. So often I hear about it a bookies bloodbath etc but like you say I'm usually on the few beaten favourites like Treve
