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Treve Ready For First Royal Ascot Visit
Prix De L’Arc De Triomphe winner Treve is set for her first appearance in the UK next week where she is scheduled to race in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.
The French-trained runner is odds-on in the Betfair ante-post betting for the 1m2f contest on day two of the royal meeting.
Treve suffered the first defeat of her career last time out in France when she went down by a short neck to Cirrus Des Aigles in the Group One Prix Ganay. That was the four-year old’s first outing since her five length win at Longchamp in October in the Arc.
Aidan O’Brien will be represented in the Prince of the Wales’s Stakes by Magician who has raced in three different countries in his last four starts.
The biggest win of Magician’s career came at the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita in November. He was successful in the Breeders’ Cup Turf when going off at 7-1 with Betfair for the race. Jockey Ryan Moore chose to hold his mount up in the early stages of the 1m4f contest before coming with a late surging run to deny the even money favourite The Fugue.
Since his victory in the United States, O’Brien’s colt finished sixth in the Dubai Sheema Classic at Meydan before winning the Group Three Morresbridge Stakes at the Curragh where he was the warm odds-on favourite in the flat race.
Mukhadram goes into Royal Ascot at the age of five bidding for his first Group One win. He has not featured since coming home second in the Dubai World Cup behind African Story.
William Haggas’ runner is third best in the betting with Betfair as he looks to build on the best run of his career at Meydan.