RE: Horse racing Tips4 Oct 2015 15:53
aPART FROM tREVE see write up on Golden Horn and NEW WAVE i'VE had Golden Horn at various prices includng 9/1 will do New WAVE as well. too late for TREVE.
Enough of Treve for now, what of the oppo?
Two horses vie for second favouritism at around 5/1, both Derby winners. Golden Horn, winner of the English Derby - and also the Coral-Eclipse and Irish Champion Stakes, locks that precious tyne with New Bay, winner of the French Derby and Prix Niel.
The former, trained by John Gosden, has yet to be supplemented for the race, though he is almost certain to be. Gosden has yet to win the Arc from a fair few attempts, but he'll have had few better bullets to fire than this fellow. Initially considered a doubtful stayer at the mile and a half trip, he wasn't even entered for the Derby, that supplementary fee coming off the back of a highly impressive win in the Dante Stakes at York.
Since then, he's looked the clear pick of the domestic three-year-old middle distance crop, wining the Derby in great style before taking on and beating his elders - and female peers - in both the Eclipse and the Irish Champion. A blip in the Juddmonte International is forgiven in what looks a progressive profile where ratings give him little to find with Treve.
New Bay may be less familiar with British racing fans, but he is a high class - and potentially very high class - three-year-old. But for an unlucky in running second in the French 2000 Guineas, Andre Fabre's son of Dubawi would have been unbeaten in five starts since filling the same placing on debut.
Another for whom there were initially stamina doubts, he began to disabuse those in the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) over ten and a half furlongs, and he knocked them into a cocked hat when waltzing away with the Prix Niel.
Andre Fabre is the master of this race, his seven Arc victories unmatched in history, and he has been making some pleasing noises in what amounts to posh 'trash talk' in the run up to Sunday's showdown. He was quoted after the Prix Niel as saying,
"I was happy with New Bay. He clearly showed he gets the distance and the ground didn't bother him. It was what he needed and it was a nice, easy race. Based on the way he was finishing at Chantilly I had very little doubt about the trip for him - not based on his pedigree but on the visual impression of his Jockey-Club win. He certainly seemed happy with the distance on Sunday.
The experience I have is if you want to have a chance in the Arc you need an easy prep race. That is what he had."
Before he closed, he added:
"I'm not involved with Treve, but I would repeat that you need an easy race before the Arc."
The implication that Treve may have left her race in the Vermeille will have irritated connections of the super-mare, but M. Fabre is not one to idly flimflam, and he may have a point.
It makes more sense to focus on his horse for the purposes of this preview, and his horse has abundant talent, ascendant form, and an impeccable trainer. At this point I need to declare that the manner of New Bay's win in the Prix du Jockey Club saw me scrambling for a bit of Paddy's 14/1 despite concerns about his ability to get the longer trip at that time.