Arc Saturday

There has barely been a stronger mile contest all season than Saturday's G1 Royal Bahrain Sun Chariot S., with a division dominated by the fillies set for another re-measuring as Saffron Beach (Ire) (New Bay {GB}) goes to war with Homeless Songs (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) on Newmarket's Rowley Mile. While the division's best individual race remains the G1 Queen Anne S. in which Baaeed (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) mastered Real World (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), the fact is that both have for different reasons subsequently left the building. Those...

The all-important draw was made for Sunday's G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on Thursday morning and it was the connections of the defending champion Torquator Tasso (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}) who suffered the annual hammer blow by being handed stall 18 in the mile-and-a-half monument. In a further twist of the knife for Gestut Auenquelle's 2021 hero, fortune favoured virtually all of the other key contenders as the draw made almost a race of two halves. Kirsten Rausing's indomitable Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}) had her task made one notch...