A very strange statement

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Ron

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"I think I've discovered she's a lot better going right-handed than left," said Head-Maarek.". Speaking of Treve.

Can you believe that? How long has she been training her? A lot better. Just discovered. She thinks o_O
 
What has she been smoking? Or was she stuck on the Eurostar for sixteen hours and short of sleep?

Treve’s ten race career reads six starts at Longchamp (won four, lost two), two starts at Saint Cloud (won two), one start at Chantilly (won one) and one start at Ascot (lost one).

Mme Head-Maarek should look at the layout of the tracks concerned as it would appear that all three of her defeats came on right-handed tracks. She was touched off my Cirrus Des Aigles in the Prix Ganay, they blamed the fast ground after coming third to The Fugue in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes and I cannot remember what excuse they gave after last year’s fourth in the Prix Vermeille to Baltic Baroness before winning the Arc over the same course and distance. Her two victories in 2015 have been at left-handed Saint Cloud.
 
I wouldn't take to much notice of the form figures QM. She hates firm going and has been damaged twice that I know of when running on it; once when breaking the course record (despite the ground) and once when she should have been withdrawn. Took her several months to recover on both occasions. Re CDA it was her first run of the season on really heavy ground, against a heavy ground specialist and she would have won that in a few more metres.

It is very strange though that it has taken so long to discover this "fact" and that she only thinks she has discovered it, despite her discovering that she is a lot better.
 
So was she unsure after her first ARC win - it took the second one to confirm it! Not a bad way of confirming that your horse is better going right handed

Would be like Paul Nicholls thinking Big Bucks Was better suited to hurdles after winning his second World Hurdle !! <laugh>
 
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But she's never been beaten going left-handed. So maybe not that silly a statement.
Is her winning form going left-handed noticeably worse?

On a line through Flintshire you might say she's a pound better going right. Hardly significant.
 
1. One would have thought that, at some stage, she would have been lunged. That would have given the lunger a pretty good indication.

2. If she was a lot better surely she would know, not think