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By David Milnes and Lee Mottershead
3.05 Longchamp
Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe of Qatar (Group 1) | 1m4f, 3yo + | ITV / Sky
Supporters of Enable will not like much of what they are about to read.
John Gosden believes Qatar’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe favorite Enable is too short on the stakes. Even more worrying, he believes that on Longchamp’s tough terrain, defeat is “a great probability.”
If proven wrong, as he would love to be, Gosden will go down in the annals of sport as the first trainer to produce a horse to win three bows.
Along with stablerider Frankie Dettori, he first triumphed with Golden Horn in 2015, but although that colt retired at age three, Enable has continued under the tutelage of his trainer until he was six.
As the season progressed, Gosden has repeated more than once that at an age when most of the best mares would enjoy a more relaxed life in the stallion, Khalid Abdullah’s housebreed champion has found it more difficult reach the top. That, however, is not what the champion trainer worries as he prepares to run Enable for what will surely be the last time.
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“It’s obviously disappointing when you run a race of this size on what will be specialized terrain,” said Gosden.
“The problem with this terrain is that she is a graceful filly and it is difficult to show your brilliance on a surface that will probably make her hard work. It is the same for everyone, but she is a filly that ideally likes to run around the side. easy.of good terrain.
“It is not ideal, and that she is so short to win the race in such conditions is a bit absurd. They support her as if defeat is impossible when I can assure you that defeat is a high probability on this terrain.” . It is not the terrain that plays to your strengths and if someone handles it really well then I wish you good luck. I feel like the terrain has gone against their means. “
Those brutally honest words don’t offer much encouragement to Enable backers. More positively, Gosden is satisfied with Enable’s condition, so much so that he is not concerned that this year he will stay away from Longchamp: had he traveled to France, even updated quarantine restrictions for sport participants would have prevented him from attending the important Tattersalls sales next week. .
Gosden said: “I have a fantastic team there, including two of the best traveling guys in chief and boyfriends, as well as my son and assistant Thady. Obviously, I won’t be there this year, but being there doesn’t make them run. faster “.
Enable was not quick enough last year to hold off Waldgeist, who emerged on top at the end of a contest played in conditions similar to those that will prevail this season. That was Frankie Dettori’s 31st arc ride. Expect a much happier outcome at age 32.
“For the Arc I will be super excited and nervous,” he said. “It’s a great feeling. Horrible, but great. Even when you win, it’s not a pleasant feeling for a while until it subsides. Then it completely consumes you.”
For what would be the seventh time, Dettori would love to be consumed again.
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