David Ord is going for DARYZ and GIAVELLOTTO. https://www.sportinglife.com/racing...-de-troimphe-tips-horse-by-horse-guide/227872
I think, at this point, I'm contractually obliged (my forum stipend could be at risk if I don't) to put up the trends / stats for this race. So here are the ones that I've got listed - No horse since Star Appeal, in 1975, has won The Arc in the same season as running in a handicap (he was beaten, on his seasonal bow, at Cologne). Japanese trained runners are 0/33 in the race. Since 1991 only 1 Arc winner was having its first run at the trip - 1/30 since 1991. 18 of the last 22 winners of the race had run between 21 and 29 days prior to the Arc. 16 of the last 19 winners of the Arc, run at Longchamp, broke from a single figure draw - 14 of these were no wider than stall 6. No St Leger winner has ever won the Arc in the same season - 0/10 so far this century (formline -5070040735). 7 out of the last 9 winners of the Arc had Urban Sea in their pedigree. Only 1 horse has won the Prix du Jockey Club and then gone on to win the Arc, in their 3YO season, since 2004. No 6YO has ever won the Arc. Aidan O'Brien is 2/58 in the race. The last Arc scorer with winning form over 14 furlongs, or beyond, was Gold River in 1981. Andre Fabre has trained the winner of the Arc 8 times since 1987. Just 1 out of the last 5 winners of the Arc ran, at Longchamp, on Arc Trials Day. Fillies and mares have won 10 out of the last 17 runnings of the race. A quick couple of points to bear in mind re the above - (i) obviously, there is no reigning St Leger champ going this year and (ii) Arc trials day has now been slightly moved in the calendar. But which ones will be enhanced in '25 and which will fall by the old wayside??? That's the great conundrum for punters to unravel and predict.
