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Le vainqueur GOLDEN HORN file vers une facile victoire dans le
Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 2015 avec son jockey Lanfranco
Dettori, devant la foule impressionnante des grands jours à
Longchamp- 4 octobre 2015
-The fresh blood of Golden Horn is a
great stroke of luck for the racing world.
The reaction of the public and the medias
was emotive, that of enthousiasts, but not
at all rational. In fact, to cry about the
defeat of an ageing Trêve leads to nothing
good, while to be delighted with the arrival
of a young three-year-old champion is
something sensible from the point of view of
progress for thorough bred breeders in as
much as the goal of racing is always the
improvement of the horse species.
Golden Horn is a colt
with an exemplary record who has never
disappointed, from his victorious beginnings
as a two-year-old up to his consecration in
the Epsom Derby, the event that all English
breeders dream of winning one day, more than
any other race in the world moreover,
climbing all steps. And God knows you don’t
win an Epsom Derby by three lengths if you
are not of the calibre of the finest
champions of international turf.
Cape Cross IRE, the
father of Golden Horn is a stallion who has
already provided Sea the Stars, the only
horse to have won the 2000 Guineas, the
Epsom Derby, and the Arc de Triomphe of
Paris in the same season before retiring to
stud unbeaten- if you don’t include his
first race as a two-year-old. But we
attributed, perhaps wrongly, the class of
Sea the Stars only to his glorious mother,
the very famous Urban Sea, herself a Prix de
l’Arc de Triomphe winner. Cape Cross IRE
dissipated this mistrust in him by proving
he was a very important link in the
reproduction chain, as his son Sea the
Stars, entering the stud only in 2010,
straight off immediately produced Taghrooda
winner of the Oaks, and Sea the Moon, winner
of the German Derby. All this augurs well
for Golden Horn in his future job as a
stallion, as his owner M. Anthony
Oppenheimer, the day after this 2015 Arc de
Triomphe let it be known that he has
(without doubt, very wisely !) decided not
to run his horse as a four-year-old.
-Lanfranco Dettori,
like an old crafty fox uses his adversaries’
weapon to win the palm and the laurels of
the queen of the events of the international
calendar.
With what panache
Lanfranco Dettori won his fourth Arc de
Triomphe we shall never forget. Lammtarra,
Marienbard, Sakhee and now Golden Horn, this
can only be the fact that he is a very great
jockey, as were in their time Lester Pigott
and Yves Saint-Martin.
With the genius which
artists from his native land often show, the
italian jockey used intelligently his number
14 from the guard rail, which for many would
have been a fatal disadvantage, to turn it
into an advantage in order to, as many say,
relax his horse, but also and above all, to
go and get the filly Shahah who we knew was
going to act as a hare to give a high rythm
(pace) to the race and thus favourise Trêve
the holder of the title. But poor Shahah, to
the great disappointment of the entourage of
the team mate of the Emir of Qatar, was
transformed by Lanfranco Dettori’s magic
into Golden Horn’s best ally, leading him
docilely up to the final sprint. Trêve,
never having seemed at ease all through the
race, sweating and a bit stiff and jerky in
her action, could only get up to fourth
place drawing on her intrinsic class but at
more than two lengths from Golden Horn and
his exultant jockey in his so demontrative
and typical manner. Ah, Dettori, «
comediante, e maestro più di mai !! » as his
compatriots would say.
Dettori, the old fox,
they were saying, had however a rare
advantage over his colleagues. In effect
hadn’t he had the opportunity to ride in a
race seven of the eighteen competitors in
this 2015 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe ?
That’s to say the considerable advantage of
judging the power and character of most of
his adversaries on this Sunday 4th October.
Thus he was able to give free rein to his
gifts of strategy in choosing the best
possible tactics. The crucial point
remaining, as soon as Shahah was abreast and
was going to remain there until she
collapsed totally, was to determine the
exact moment that he should launch his colt.
Dettori did this with the natural
inspiration of the greats, with the ease of
artists at the summit of their art. « Bravo,
Franco !! e grazie anche per l’ippica
italiana che ti guardava e non ti ha mai
abbandonato ».
Choosing a young jockey
to ride in the Arc is to give a chance to
young talent and reward him for his passion
and work, to give him encouragement for the
future and also give him very useful
experience for the continuation of his
career but more especially of course if you
intend to see him ride again at this level
during the following seasons. If not, it has
no sense. Choosing an « old fox » still in a
great physical condition, is to give
yourself (and your horse !) the best chance
of winning a race in which everybody’s
nerves, both men and horses are often very
keen, so high is the pressure. There have
always been in racing history jockeys
capable of winning 100 races a year but
failing in most big races, as if their
character didn’t allow them to overcome the
stress of these races. Anthony Oppenheimer
and John Gosden knew this, they who chose
Lanfranco Dettori for this decisive
engagement.
-So the role of leader
in a race may be an ungrateful one !
Certainly, you are not
always propelled to leader in a race by just
your own will. It can also be simply because
someone has to devote themselves, can’t it ?
But in the case of this 2015 Qatar Prix de
l’Arc de Triomphe, there was of course the
decision to sacrifice the filly Shahah for
the benefit of Trêve. This method could have
paid off if Golden Horn hadn’t been ridden
by Lanfranco Dettori, or at least been
ridden by a much less inspired jockey, of if
Trêve had been in her condition of the 2014
or 2013 Arc. In the case under
consideration, the arm backfired : it
favoured the adversary, because Golden Horn
was able to catch up with Shahah and use her
as the hare that she should have been for
Trêve. Well-placed from the beginning of the
race with the forerunners, it was not the
representatives of the great owner Khalid
Abdullah- perhaps the most successful man in
the racing world in the last 30 years- who
were going to oppose this. From there, the
die was cast, the best were in the leading
places for the final sprint. On the other,
there is a good chance that the « beating »
that poor Shahah received will leave its
mark, if not indelible, at least lasting
long enough not to allow her to reappear
successfully on a racecourse. Unless, of
course, she is content with minor events,
giving up all hope of getting back into
Groupe III in which however she had shone as
a two-year-old.
On constatera que les poulinières
françaises filles d’étalons américains
et présentées elles-mêmes à des étalons
anglais ou irlandais sont la clés du
succès de cet Arc de Triomphe 2015.
L’édition 2015 de la Vente de l’Arc
se tiendra samedi 3 octobre à
partir de 18h à Saint-Cloud au
manège Boussac. Le catalogue, en ligne
sur le site
www.arqana.com propose une sélection
de 45 chevaux à l’entraînement
d’un excellent niveau, potentiels
candidats au Carnaval de Dubaï ou aux
meilleures compétitions organisées à
Hong Kong, aux Etats-Unis, en Australie
et bien sûr en Europe.
Ces
derniers mois, les chevaux acquis à la
Vente de l’Arc n’ont eu de cesse de se
distinguer dans les courses de Groupe à
travers le monde, à l’image de MAX
DYNAMITE, impressionnant lauréat de
la Lonsdale Cup (Gr.2) à York et qui
vise désormais la Melbourne Cup. En
Australie justement, WEARY s’est
adjugé les Expressway Stakes (Gr.2) et a
pris la 2ème place de la Doomben Cup
(Gr.1). A Meydan, après s’être classé
second au niveau Groupe 2,
FRANKYFOURFINGERS a fait sien le Al
Maktoum Challenge RIII (Gr.3). En
Europe, AFFAIRE SOLITAIRE a
brillé dans le Prix Exbury (Gr.3),
DUBDAY dans les Glorious Stakes
(Gr.3) à Glorious Goodwood, et de
l’autre côté de l’Atlantique,
KENZADARGENT s’est imposée au niveau
Listed et placée de Groupe 3.
De nombreux gagnants et placés de
Groupe
Le catalogue offre une sélection de
chevaux à l’entraînement qui se sont
imposés ou placés au niveau Groupe, dont
PRINCE GIBRALTAR, RIDE LIKE THE WIND,
FREE PORT LUX, CANNDAL, SUEDOIS, EL
VALLE, NORDICO, WAKE FOREST.. Des pouliches de Groupe avec un
potentiel pour l’élevage
Le catalogue propose également plusieurs
pouliches présentant un fort potentiel
sportif mais aussi une valeur d’élevage,
à l'instar de LITTLE NIGHTINGALE,
WEKEELA, MOJO RISIN, BURMA SEA ou
encore GROWING GLORY.
Une section de deux ans très
prometteurs
Le catalogue fait également la part
belle aux deux ans présentant un fort
potentiel comme TIME WARP, TOURNY,
FLY ON THE NIGHT, SHADOW HUNTER et
OTTONE.