GET ON TREND Who will win the Arc this Sunday?
Sunday's Arc de Triomphe tip
Have the treacherous Frenchies all backed Enable?
They claim they have to do this because there have been problems with the turf. The place has been closed for two years – what have they been doing to it during all that time? You couldn't make it up.
The sooner we get out of Europe the better!! On good or quicker ground and in receipt of all the weight allowances, Sea Of Class can outpace last year's heroine but on softer I am not so sure.
It would be great to see Enable do the double – and, unlike Sea Of Class, she is nicely drawn in six – but she has not raced on turf for 12 months and her reappearance win at Kempton merely proved she still has a leg at each corner.
However, the Newmarket gallop watchers have been full of praise for her work since and she has the best Arc jockey there is (and possible ever was) on board.
Waldgeist looks the pick of the French but he has been well found in the market. If the going is genuinely soft Defoe could be a value longshot at 50-1 or bigger.
I spy an eyecatcher…
Wissahickon (recommended as one to follow here in July) was simply brilliant when winning the Cambridgeshire last weekend at 11-1 and could well be a Group 1 winner by this time next year.
Back in fifth was Roger Varian's UAE Prince and that effort was better than the bare form as he did not get the best of runs through and it was the five-year-old's first outing since the Guineas meeting.
The nine-furlong trip is his bare minimum and he can land a decent handicap, probably over further, before the end of the turf season.
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