UK Horse Racing Tips

The countdown is well and truly on to the coveted Group 1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on October 5 in which last year’s brilliant heroine Treve has re-emerged as the ante-post market leader with the likes of Paddy Power after other leading fancies have wobbled in a number of key trials.

There have been few more impressive winners in recent decades of Europe’s premier all-age middle-distance contest than the Criquette Head-Maarek-trained filly, who simply blasted a top-class field apart in Paris last autumn, showing a stunning turn of foot to leave her rivals for dead and crossing the line with any amount in hand to win by a breathtaking five lengths from Japanese superstar Orfevre.

Narrowly defeated on her first outing since her Arc triumph when finding the race-fit legend Cirrus des Aigles just a short neck too good for her on her seasonal bow in the Prix Ganay at Longchamp in April, Treve’s only other start this term was when sent off a hot odds-on favourite in the racing betting for the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot – a race that jockey Frankie Dettori will want to forget.

Dettori suggested after Treve had finished a hugely disappointing third behind The Fugue that his mount had not felt right going to post. She certainly moved poorly on the quick ground and never looked anything like her normally fluid, elegant self. Not seen since and given time to recover from the experience, news broke recently that Head-Maarek had asked Treve’s Qatari owners to remove Dettori from the saddle and they had agreed.

But after German star Sea The Moon was beaten recently at Baden Baden recently, and with doubts about a number of other leading ante-post contenders, Treve has re-emerged as 9/2 (with Paddy Power) favourite for the big race. Reports suggest she has fully recovered from the Ascot debacle and, if true, she will surely prove the one they all have to beat on the first Sunday in October.

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