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Good afternoon and welcome to the most gorgeous day here in Paris. We | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
are at Longchamp for the greatest day of European racing and the most | :00:46. | :00:53. | |
stylish. It is Arc Day and we have a field of 16 lining up for the | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. It is worth �1.9 million to the winner. A | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
tremendous atmosphere and right now in the Winner's Enclosure because | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
because Frankie Dettori has ridden his 500th group winner and he will | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
be coming in behind Willie Carson and myself. It was done in style. | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
We will show you the highlights of the Group 1 races. Frankie, you are | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
guarantee a flying mount. It was so dramatic. He came from last to | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
first on the inside rail. Exrodery stuff. Willie, it has been a | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
sensational day. It has been fantastic racing and we've got the | :01:37. | :01:44. | |
best to come. You have the Queen of horse racing, our next race and | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
then we have the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, the world middle distance | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
championship of the whole wide world and we have got the whole of | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
the world watching this race because there is a lot of people | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
around the world with horses running in this and it means a lot | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
to be winning here in Paris today. The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe one | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
of the greatest races and you are going to see a fantastic race. | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
He is quite a salesman! For those involved, or training it | :02:18. | :02:28. | |
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is a tense day. Freddie Head who trained Goldikova. We will be | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
talking to Kieren Fallon. He doesn't have a ride in the Arc. | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
Aidan O'Brien was walking the course earlier with his hole family, | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
Joseph O'Brien, he rides St Nicholas Abbey for his father who | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
has three runners. The other two are Treasure Beach and So You Think. | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
If he won the Arc, he could claim claim to be the best horse in the | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
world. No reason why not and if he does, I might be saying those | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
actual words. Don't say them too soon! | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
Lets look at horses bidding to make headlines in the Arc. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Bred in New Zealand, now trained in Ireland, he is the global commodity | :03:18. | :03:28. | |
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staking his claim to be the best in the world, So You Think. | :03:28. | :03:38. | |
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Ryan scoop Ryan Moore has paired up with Workforce. | :03:41. | :03:48. | |
Galikov, Galikov, a, the half- sister to Goldikova. | :03:48. | :03:58. | |
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The most successful man is Andre with seven wins. | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
Globe trotting group one winner, Snow Fairy is a willing and able | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
partner for Frankie Dettori who rides in the race for a 24th year | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
It has been hot back home in the UK. It is scorching out here in Paris. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
It was hot yesterday and very hot today. And the ground is officially | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
good. There has been concern in the build-up about how quick conditions | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
will be. The clerk of the course at Longchamp, responsible for the | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
conditions, he put 10 millimetres on of water on the course on | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
Thursday evening and that eased things a bit. We spoke to a few | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
jockeys yesterday and some said there was some ease in the ground. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Kieren Fallon who rode this afternoon, he suggested the ground | :04:45. | :04:53. | |
was the oned good side, -- on the good side. It helps give the horses | :04:53. | :04:59. | |
cushion and helps retain moisture. The jockeys said because of the | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
heat it will get quicker as the day It is a sensational day. As a race, | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
it looks the highest class. There are so many horses that can win. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
There are eight horses and they have a chance of winning. | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
Ryan Moore a good story, he rushed back from injury. Just one ride | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
today on Workforce. I wouldn't put that against Workforce, Workforce | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
who won this race last year. He won the Derby and that was on fast | :05:35. | :05:45. | |
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ground. So the ground today, we're hearing is good ground. Three-year- | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
olds have a fantastic record in this race. In the last 20-year-olds, | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
three-year-olds have won and there is only one five-year-old won it in | :06:00. | :06:10. | |
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20 years. So You Think. Actually, he is not five because he | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
was born in the southern Southern Hemisphere. | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
The crowd not just boosted by French racing fans and English | :06:23. | :06:32. | |
racing fans, but fan fans from Japan. | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
There is scorchmarks on the gallops here. | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
Let me tell you about the races we have coming up live on BBC Two. | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
This race is all about Goldikova. It is her last race in Europe. | :06:50. | :06:59. | |
She won this race last year and she is bidding for a 15th group one | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
success. There is colts, and fillies and mares lining up for the | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
Arc, Nicholas Abbey, So You Think and Treasure Beach. It is a really | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
classy face. They could have a fairytale for the | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
women. They have three fillies that could finish, one, two, three. What | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
price would that be? Four. Some really good fillies in the race. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Let's bring you up-to-date on the races so far. We have been showing | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
them live on the Red Button. Here is happened. | :07:36. | :07:46. | |
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Here come the challengers. What a performance. | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
For the first race of the day, it is good. Plenty of of horse under | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
me, but when I come through, he had a lot of power. I rode him before. | :08:16. | :08:26. | |
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there is nothing in it. Tanning Tangerine tree maybe just. Soul | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
power on the near side. I can't believe it. He progressed | :08:54. | :09:04. | |
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all the time. To win that, it is They race up towards the line. | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
Zantinder on the rail. She was really decisive. I mean I | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
didn't know were the others were because I was so biz ki ki keeping | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
her -- busy keeping her straight. It seems she won easy. It was a | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
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150 yards left to go. Here come the chasing pack. Right down the mid- | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
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side rail, it's Frankie Dettori. Here is Frankie Dettori after | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
riding your 500th group winner? It is an astonishing number. I'm lucky | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
that I rode some great horses. Let's hope there are more coming | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
next. Goldikova will be hard to beat, but if we can get placed I | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
would be delighted. Snow Fairy is one of my favourites, I think she | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
will ride a good race. You were excited when Ed gave her | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
the all clear to run? She is a filly that comes to her own this | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
the autumn. It is a tough race, but I really believe that she has a | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
good chance. You seem to be flying it at the | :11:12. | :11:18. | |
moment? I am now! Every jockey needs confidence and | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
there is nothing more confidence boosting than riding your 500th | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
group winner. There Is a man, when his confidence | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
is high, he pulls things out of the bag. | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
Like you in that sense. Really? When you were riding well, | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
everything else happened. All right. Frankie, when there is | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
the big occasion, there is no better jockey than Frankie Dettori | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
on the big day and when things are going well. He is the, ah, he is | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
one of the best jockeys I've ever seen basically in those | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
circumstances. And what was amazing about that win | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
and you had to pick it up and just what he does, he never picked his | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
stick up. The horse is running for him. | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
He had luck. He did have a bit of luck. But he was very brave in what | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
he did and that's where the confidence comes in. If he wasn't | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
riding with confidence, he he would have said to himself, I better get | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
out of here. I better get my horse into daylight and give him a clean | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
run. If your confidence is not high. When you are beaming with | :12:22. | :12:28. | |
confidence, you sit there longer, you sit there and things just open | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
like they did. Christmas came early to Frankie there! | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
Sometimes in races and particularly when you get to the Arc you will | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
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see hard luck stories. Last year it didn't go well for for for Sarafina. | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
Some people are thinking that Sarafina could win the race this | :12:54. | :13:04. | |
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We are back at Rc, it has not been the greatest race. We have had bad | :13:05. | :13:15. | |
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I was unlucky the day I broke my collarbone. That was two years ago? | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
That was two years ago. I tried to forget this day forever. Then I | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
finished fourth last year and then I finished second. This year, | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
arguably your best chance on Sarafina. How unlucky do you think | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
she was 12 months ago? She was very, very unlucky. You know, when you | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
nearly fall down in the first, most of the time it means you lost all | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
your chances to finish in the first four. She still came back and | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
finished third. In such company, it was a great performance. This year | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
she has a widish draw. What do you feel about that? She likes to wait, | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
to be hidden behind another horse. I think it's not a very bad draw | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
for her. I'm very confident. If I'm not confident with Sarafina, I will | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
never be confident with any horse. Who do you think the main dangers | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
are? I really fancy Snow Fairy because she's a top class horse. I | :14:24. | :14:32. | |
have seen her winning in Japan and then at Hong Kong. She was very, | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
very impressive, especially if the ground is fast and she will like it. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
She is ridden by Frankie Dettori which is a very positive point. | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
What will it mean to you to win the Arc? For a jockey, it's the best | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
thing that can happen for you as a jockey. Especially because I'm | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
French, of course it is the race that we all dream to win. So I just | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
cross the fingers, I try to do my job as well as possible and then | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
the class will make the difference. You can tell from listening to | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Christophe Lemaire how much it matters to a French-based jockey. | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
To any jockey, winning the Arc... Any jockey in the world. The | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
Japanese have never won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. I would say in | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
the next ten years, they will do so. They might do it today. They could. | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
We have the first three back from last year - Workforce and Nakayama | :15:33. | :15:39. | |
Festa and Sarafina. Is Sarafina the one that could win? I would think | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
it would be the best of those horses. You have just seen how she | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
was interfered with at the turn. That, I think, made her a very, | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
very unlucky filly. She was further forward than I remembered. She ends | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
up out the back after this interference. You can see he gets | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
interference. You can see he gets snatched up. Look at that. Then she | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
still gets out. Workforce narrowly missed it. He went the other way? | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
He went inside. Workforce got all the luck in the race. You would | :16:15. | :16:25. | |
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have to think was he a lucky winner? Of the older horses she is | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
the one? She's had the typical French preparation for the Prix de | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
l'Arc de Triomphe which always seems to work. Only a few races, a | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
prep race, which was a few weeks ago. She is ready to do herself | :16:40. | :16:50. | |
justice. I would think of the French, the trainer has got the | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
three-year-old colt which Reliable Man is another horse that puts a | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
fly in the ointment. He didn't want to separate the two in his | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
interview. You would have to think Sarafina has a first rate chance of | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
winning the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe this year. You have a bug | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
on you! It's a lucky spider. I haven't had a bet yet. You | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
shouldn't have done that! It wasn't a lucky spider. It was a bug. | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
de Royer-Dupre has a fantastic chance of winning. He has the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
three-year-old colt. He's got the filly who should have possibly won | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
it as a three-year-old last year. Had perfect preparation this year | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
doing into the race. He's sitting - - going into the race. He's sitting | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
in the box seat. It's been a very difficult race for British trainers | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
to win. Michael Stoute did it last year with Workforce. Ian Balding | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
did it 40 years ago with Mill Reef. Michael Jarvis did it with Carol | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
House. So sad to be here without Michael Jarvis. He died in the last | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
two weeks and his funeral was on Friday. Hugely well attended in | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Newmarket. His death just the day after another racing legend in | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
terms of Ginger McCain, the trainer of Red Rum. A moment or two to | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
reflect on the remarkable careers of both men. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
The trainer who became a household name, forever associated with Red | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
Rum, the Southport sands and small yard behind a used car showroom. | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Ginger McCain guided the little horse to three Grand National | :18:30. | :18:38. | |
victories. We thought we would be competitive. When he goes, that was | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
a bit special. Red Rum is going to win the National! At the line, Red | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
Rum has just snatched it! People said he's a one-horse trainer. You | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
are a one-horse trainer. I said, yes. What a bloody good job I had | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
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that one horse! Red Rum wins the National! Of course he was my | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
friend. If you gave me the choice between him and my wife, she would | :19:10. | :19:17. | |
have gone very quickly! It's hats off - a tremendous reception at | :19:17. | :19:25. | |
Liverpool. Red Rum wins the National! What do you think about | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
it now? I think it is bloody marvellous! Super. Never in doubt | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
the way I saw it. Not many horses would adapt so well to TV | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
appearances and turning on the Blackpool illuminations. They were | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
both celebrities and there was more to come. Coming across the road, we | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
were going to be a nice fourth. I thought we might have a chance of | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
being third. Then a hundred yards, I thought we are going to win it! | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
Flying down the outside, it might be another one for Ginger McCain. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
Four Grand National winners, retirement beckoned but not a | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
diplomatic role. You said what about the pressures? There are no | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
pressures. That's a load of (BLEEP). His son quickly added another | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
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National to the legend. You have got to give some credit to Donald. | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
Why?! Go on. If I ever meet his father, I will congratulate him and | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
ask him where the brains came from! He was passionate about the Grand | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
National. He spoke his mind. He knew how to write a headline. | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
Ginger McCain was one of a kind. Michael Jarvis won the admiration | :20:45. | :20:54. | |
of fellow trainers and the racing public over a 43-year career. | :20:54. | :21:03. | |
going to be Carol House. In his early days, he led up the winner of | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
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the Derby in 1966. He was favourite so we didn't have any fancy prices. | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
I used to put a part of my �14 a week on him, you know. We knew we | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
had something special. Michael's favourite horse was the winner of | :21:29. | :21:35. | |
the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket. Although the English Derby proved | :21:35. | :21:45. | |
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illusive, the French version didn't. The best was to follow. Tough, | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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talented temperamental, Rakti. Michael's final classic success | :22:04. | :22:14. | |
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came with Eswara. Eswara goes on to win. One of racing's exceptional | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
trainers. It was what I was brought up to do. You get up and you go out | :22:20. | :22:27. | |
and do it. Hopefully, we will have good days, but we had plenty of bad | :22:28. | :22:36. | |
ones. Michael Jarvis was a gentle man and a gentleman. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Two very contrasting characters. Very much so. Both of them hugely | :22:40. | :22:46. | |
important to the sport of horse racing? Very much so. The National | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
Hunt, the National, he was instrumental in bringing the | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
National back to life. Quite a few years ago, it nearly never was. He | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
was very helpful in getting it all back. Then you have Michael Jarvis, | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
the stable lad who looked after Charlotte's Town, the Derby winner, | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
dropped the rein and had to run after him. He was the most quiet, | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
gentle, gracious - you would say such a calm person, but everybody | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
in racing loved Michael Jarvis. He was a great sort of cool customer. | :23:26. | :23:36. | |
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You know the day they won the Arc here, I was standing behind Michael | :23:41. | :23:48. | |
and he said, "What won it?" And Gay turned round and said, "We did!" | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
He's been ill a long time. Put it this way, it wasn't a shock. No. | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
was a great man. A wonderful man. He inspired such loyalty in the | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
people that worked for him. Phillip Robinson associated with so many of | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
those great horses. Phillip, the day of Michael Jarvis's funeral, | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
the news came through that Phillip Robinson had decided to retire as a | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
jockey. Probably the right decision to make, but the timing was | :24:21. | :24:26. | |
terribly emotive? It was. There we go. We have to get on. We have lost | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
a great man in Michael Jarvis. Phillip Robinson comes to a great | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
career at the end. Now, we've got the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
Before that, we have the Prix De La Foret and the chance for French | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
crowds to bid goodbye to Goldikova who is on her way down to the start | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
on the far side there with the white cap. Goldikova, one of the | :24:47. | :24:53. | |
world's great horses and a 14-time- winning Group 1 matter going for a | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
record extending 15th win in a Group 1. Then she will go to the | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
Breeders' Cup in America and try and win the Breeders' Cup Mile for | :25:02. | :25:07. | |
a fourth time. No horse has ever done that. Everything she does now | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
is breaking a record. I have seen her look better in the paddock. Her | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
coat was a bit dull. I have seen her look better. I'm with the | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
trainer of Goldikova. How will she get on today? I hope she does well. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
We have a leader. She seems well. As well as ever, I think. We will | :25:29. | :25:34. | |
see. Cross our fingers. She looks better today than she did at Royal | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
Ascot? I don't know. I don't know. You can't say that. I mean, maybe | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
she's better in the autumn than she is in the spring. I think she's | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
been good all year-round. She's got such a great fan club. Can you tell | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
people that she is still as good as ever? I am sure she is. The main | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
goal is the Breeders' Cup. Good luck. There is the great matter, | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Goldikova, Olivier Peslier in the saddle. Let's check the runners and | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 55 seconds | :26:19. | :27:15. | |
afternoon so far in terms of records. Kasbah Bliss winning at | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
the age of nine. A tense Group 1 win for William Buick and also a | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
500th Group race win for Frankie Dettori. So what will be the story | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
here? Well, it will be interesting which ever way it goes. Goldikova | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
is the one that everybody is talking about. William Buick gets | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
the ride on Dream Ahead. He looked well in the paddock. Seven furlongs, | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
possibly a bit stretch for him. He seems to be a better horse over six. | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
Goldikova - it's a trial race, but I am sure that is all it will be. | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
It will be a trial for the Breeders' Cup. This guy, who is our | :27:55. | :28:01. | |
champion sprinter elect, Dream Ahead, would like a bit more juice | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
in the ground than he is going to get today. Possibly you won't see | :28:05. | :28:10. | |
the best of him. Dream Ahead the winner of the July Cup and the | :28:10. | :28:20. | |
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Sprint Cup at Haydock. Frankie by birth. Marchand D'or a former | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
Abbey horse is going to be the last one in and Jim McGrath is our | :28:36. | :28:46. | |
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Goldikova starting from stall two. Second from the camera. That's it. | :28:48. | :28:53. | |
They're ready. Racing! A good line. Down near the inside | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
Flash Dance is ridden hard with the whip to try and lead, but can't get | :28:58. | :29:03. | |
there, Goldikova cruising on her outside. Now striding up is | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
Worthadd. Frankie Dettori now the pacemaker gets into stride and | :29:07. | :29:12. | |
starts to clap on a bit of pace. In third is Goldikova. In the | :29:12. | :29:21. | |
slipstream of the pacemaker. Dream Ahead is on the outside. Tucked | :29:21. | :29:25. | |
away, Dever Dream. Second last is Bewitched and Marchand D'or is last. | :29:25. | :29:29. | |
Racing up the strait towards the home bend, just over three furlongs | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
to go and the second Winning Post. Into the home strait now. It is | :29:35. | :29:38. | |
Flash Dance in front. In behind them is Goldikova going well. | :29:38. | :29:43. | |
Further back in the field Dream Ahead. Further back, Dever Dream | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
has broken down and dropped right now. Half-way up the home strait, | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
Goldikova got through on the inside. Worthadd is challenging and here is | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
Dream Ahead on the outside. Goldikova the champion mare she | :29:56. | :30:02. | |
gets down to fight here. It is Goldikova and Dream Ahead. She is | :30:02. | :30:08. | |
sticking at it. She is a champion. She is just in front. Now a lunge | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
from Dream Ahead. They hit the line. It is very tight. Dream Ahead and | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
Goldikova in a photo. Surfrider followed by Bewitched and behind | :30:17. | :30:23. | |
them is Worthadd and then followed by Marchand D'or and last is Flash | :30:23. | :30:29. | |
Dance and Dever Dream unfortunately has broken down, but this is a | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
championship race and what a champion filly. Two champions. | :30:35. | :30:39. | |
Dream Ahead, far side, the all time champion, if you like, Goldikova. | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
They raced towards the line. She won't give in, the filly, but Dream | :30:45. | :30:51. | |
Ahead maybe just. From Goldikova, it is very tight. It is a bob and a | :30:51. | :30:57. | |
gap then to Surfrider followed by Bewitched and they were clear then | :30:57. | :31:03. | |
of Worthadd and Marchand D'or. And it is very tight. William Buick, | :31:03. | :31:11. | |
maybe his second group one success of the day. He was successful in | :31:11. | :31:21. | |
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the race before. He has no doubt that he has won. David Simcock is | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
the trainer. This is a marvellous racehorse. It had to cope with | :31:30. | :31:33. | |
quick ground and has gone to the line with a champion in Goldikova. | :31:33. | :31:43. | |
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this. The angle is deceptive and Jim is saying it is tight because | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
the television angle makes it look as if Dream Ahead won more easily | :31:50. | :31:59. | |
than he may have done. Goldikova hitting the front here with her | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
head down. She doesn't get too far off the ground. She is just a | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
racing machine and Dream Ahead coming on the right of the picture. | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
William Buick almost not wanting to take her on too soon because he | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
didn't want to give Goldikova the chance to fight back, but Dream | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
Ahead is confirmed the winner. William William Buick has managed | :32:19. | :32:27. | |
to win this on David Simcock's horse. They denied Goldikova a | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
winning farewell to her French fans. A fantastic race. Our champion | :32:32. | :32:39. | |
sprinter, he had the speed to beat this champion mare, seven furlongs | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
in all fairness, it is not her best trip. It is short of her best trip. | :32:43. | :32:47. | |
It is not his best trip either. I thought possibly he would be | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
better over six furlongs rather than search, but he proved me wrong. | :32:51. | :32:57. | |
He beat the champion, the Queen of racing by the shortest of short | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
heads by the looks of it, but it is his day today. Goldikova, she can | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
go to the Breeders' Cup and possibly once she runs over there | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
and finishes her career on a winning note. | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
Freddie Head was straightforward about the fact that this was a prep | :33:14. | :33:21. | |
race for the Breeders' Cup. He was not necessarily expecting to win. | :33:22. | :33:30. | |
The colours that were carried to Derby success. | :33:30. | :33:36. | |
William Haggas trained him. I was struggling to get his name. | :33:36. | :33:43. | |
Credit to David Simcock, I think he did a fantastic job. They were | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
joint rated. Yes, at two. But to have brought the plans of trying to | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
get him to stay further and to come back and say, "We have got a | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
sprinter on our hands. Six or seven furlongs, we can win group one | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
races at this distance.". It will be interesting to see if they keep | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
him in training and go for all the sprint raceds. There was a -- races. | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
There was a story going around that he might retire. Well, we will see | :34:10. | :34:16. | |
what happens after the race and see if the owner does want to him in | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
training another year, but he is a very, very good horse. The two | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
horses Goldikova and him, they went away from the rest of the field and | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
we were watching. Two magnificent horses. | :34:28. | :34:36. | |
The cameras in the second place were around Goldikova and tracking | :34:36. | :34:45. | |
her through with Olivier Peslier being surrounded with microphones | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
and being asked what happened. What does it tell us for the next | :34:49. | :34:54. | |
race? This guy he needs sponge in the ground. He has gone out there | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
and beat the Queen of horse racing so the ground has got to be all | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
right for the horses in the Arc de Triomphe. The ground is going to be | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
OK for those horses. Brilliant pictures from fench | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
television. -- French television. Racing looks so more beautiful when | :35:16. | :35:23. | |
you can actually see hat horses are doing and the look in their eye. | :35:23. | :35:33. | |
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was one of her most courageous performances even though she was | :35:34. | :35:44. | |
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beaten. There is Olivier Peslier who rode her. They will go to | :35:52. | :35:54. | |
America with high hopes of winning the Broadmeaders Cup mile. When she | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
actually won two years ago, in 2009, she was third in this race. Last | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
year she won it. So she goes here off the back of a second. She is a | :36:01. | :36:07. | |
fantastic mare. A six-year-old mare. There is William Buick coming back. | :36:07. | :36:15. | |
What a great day and he rides Masked Marvel in the next race | :36:16. | :36:22. | |
coming up on the BBC. William Buick doing something he has become very | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
accustomed and that's entering the Winner's Enclosure after a group | :36:26. | :36:34. | |
one race. Sadly, Dever Dream doesn't look in good shape. She | :36:34. | :36:42. | |
broke down. The attendants are with her. I think Maureen Haggas is with | :36:42. | :36:52. | |
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her and Richard Hughes. We will There is huge amounts of of people | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
here in preparation for the Arc. Willie, a really good build-up? | :37:24. | :37:31. | |
have had fantastic racing today. The British horses are doing well? | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
This Arc de Triomphe, there is eight horses in the race, you could | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
say, you could bet. If you said what about? I would say I couldn't | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
put you off because there is a case for all the horses. | :37:42. | :37:46. | |
We will discuss those this a moment or two. You and I are looking | :37:46. | :37:51. | |
forward to two weeks time when it will be the first ever British | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
Champions Day. We're going to have something like | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
this. this. | :37:57. | :38:03. | |
meeting. The best you will find find anywhere in the world. This | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
place is special because it has stood the test of time. | :38:09. | :38:12. | |
For 300 years horses have been racing here at Ascot and the people | :38:12. | :38:17. | |
come because it has a sprinkling of stardust. It is special and | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
historic. There are moments in life when you | :38:22. | :38:32. | |
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want to be able to say, "I was William Buick will be featuring. | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
William, a fantastic afternoon. A tremendous horse who you have had | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
to be patient with. David has trained this horse to | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
perfection. He has not been easy the whole way through. There is no | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
point in saying David is a good trainer because everybody knows he | :38:51. | :38:59. | |
is a a fantastic trainer. Everything panned out today. I wish | :38:59. | :39:03. | |
Goldikova wasn't second because she is the people's favourite and I am | :39:03. | :39:09. | |
a fan myself. He was a worthy winner and the best horse won the | :39:09. | :39:15. | |
race and I always said he would be better in a big race and today he | :39:15. | :39:24. | |
went up and he had done enough then. You are being taken away. Good luck | :39:25. | :39:31. | |
with Masked Marvel. A hugely glamorous day and anyone | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
who turns up is wearing a hat and you can get in for free. They have | :39:36. | :39:40. | |
come here to enjoy a social day out as well as the racing and they have | :39:40. | :39:44. | |
been treated to some exciting finishes and for all fans of | :39:44. | :39:54. | |
British racing, it is exciting that the the Prix De La Foret was won by | :39:54. | :40:01. | |
a British horse. You came over with the horse. We | :40:01. | :40:07. | |
saw you rush out to greet David. was at Ebbsfleet and they made an | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
announcement that the train was not leaving London because of a | :40:11. | :40:15. | |
technical problem. Has he got home? He is delighted. | :40:15. | :40:22. | |
It is a good omen. Last time Prohibit won Robert Cowell had | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
travel difficulties and didn't make it. I said, "Don't worry, it is | :40:26. | :40:30. | |
fine. We don't need you.". Do you know if he will race on next year | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
or not? You hope so? I hope so, but no, | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
there is nothing official as to what will happen, but we would love | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
to train him obviously because he has been very good to us, very | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
special to us What a see season it has been? | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
amazing. It was a slow start with Dream Ahead, but David had immense | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
faith in him, yeah very special. Is that it for him this year? | :40:57. | :41:06. | |
That's his last run the owner's ownership. | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
There has been some deal done? There was a lot of interest after | :41:11. | :41:15. | |
his couple of runs and there will be an announcement. But it is not | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
my place to make it right now. Well, I won't press you. | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
As your husband is not here to glory in this, what would you like | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
to say about him and the team and I know how hard you work and how | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
strong a part. You came over yesterday with the horse? No, it | :41:29. | :41:35. | |
has been a massive team effort. We started out in 2004, but to have a | :41:35. | :41:43. | |
horse of Dream Ahead's calibre. It is what you dream of of and it | :41:43. | :41:49. | |
makes a difference. And raising morale and attracting support to | :41:49. | :41:59. | |
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the to the yard, but they have been our best owners to date. | :42:01. | :42:05. | |
A tremendous effort and what a horse. Well handled by him. I am | :42:05. | :42:14. | |
going to make may way back over to Willie. Snow snow Snow Fairy coming | :42:14. | :42:19. | |
over under the care of Ed Dunlop. She has been off over the world | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
winning prize money. She will be the 24th consecutive ride in the | :42:23. | :42:30. | |
Arc for Frankie Dettori and Ritchie went to Newmarket to see Snow Fairy | :42:31. | :42:40. | |
and to talk to her trainer, Ed Ed Dunlop has been to the Arc | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
before with a filly. He is back there again with another great | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
filly, Snow Fairy who is just behind us. From my untrained eye, | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
she looks magnificent, what do you think? We are happy with her. She | :42:52. | :42:57. | |
is in good form. Her work has been very pleasing and we'll give it a | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
go. She is better than she was last year, but whether that's good | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
enough to be winning an Arc or placed in an Arc, only time will | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
tell. She is unbelievable. She is | :43:06. | :43:10. | |
fantastic. She makes my morning coming in every day, she never does | :43:10. | :43:15. | |
anything, but she likes to have a snarl at you. If you have a packet | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
of Poloes or a carrot and she is your best friend. | :43:18. | :43:23. | |
Can you tell us about Snow Fairy as aierling, it is amazing that she | :43:23. | :43:33. | |
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will be running for 1,000 times, This filly was not wanted by anyone | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
and was brought back by the stud for 18 euros. She won over �2 | :43:39. | :43:44. | |
million in prize money last year so thank God nobody wanted her. It is | :43:44. | :43:50. | |
pure luck. Aren't we lucky to have horses to get you out of trouble? | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
Snow Fairy, what a ride this is. Snow Fairy wins the Oaks. At the | :43:54. | :44:00. | |
end of last year, Snow Fairy achieved a double by winning two | :44:00. | :44:07. | |
highly-competitive Group 1s in Japan and Hong Kong. I sometimes | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
feel people don't appreciate how significant her achievements abroad | :44:11. | :44:21. | |
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were? We were in quarantine. We stumbled and fell over. She scraped | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
her knees. I ended up with ten stitches in my bottom lip. | :44:32. | :44:38. | |
filly ripped her knees open. She spent eight days there. Then she | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
was boxed down to Kyoto and she won. We then took her to Hong Kong and | :44:43. | :44:51. | |
she won the Hong Kong Cup beating the colts. Snow Fairy races up. | :44:51. | :45:01. | |
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What a season for the British three-year-old filly! Ouija Board, | :45:03. | :45:10. | |
she kept going. This filly stays in training next year. That is great | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
news for us. Is she better? I don't know. I think this filly is | :45:15. | :45:22. | |
probably tougher. She is more aggressive than Ouija Board was. | :45:22. | :45:26. | |
Ouija Board's Arc run was seven years ago. What do you remember of | :45:26. | :45:31. | |
that afternoon? She was very unlucky. She got too far back. | :45:31. | :45:36. | |
Could happen on Sunday. She finished third. It was a | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
finished third. It was a frustrating day. Cherry Mix on the | :45:39. | :45:46. | |
far side. Ouija Board coming now. Baigo wins the Arc. Snow Fairy | :45:46. | :45:52. | |
warmed up for this year's European showpiece on the back of her best | :45:52. | :46:01. | |
run ever losing out to So You Think. She is back to her best now. She | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
feels fantastic. I would love her to win. One of the exciting things | :46:04. | :46:10. | |
about when you have a runner in a big race, we enjoy replaying the | :46:10. | :46:17. | |
moment of celebration. Those few moments seem like... A bit of a | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
football hooligan! Apologies to those who don't like the way we | :46:19. | :46:24. | |
celebrate. If we won the Arc, it would be the biggest day in my | :46:24. | :46:30. | |
training career. Good luck to the whole Snow Fairy team. Among those | :46:30. | :46:37. | |
looking forward to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is Bo Derek. | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
She's over here promoting the Breeders' Cup for this year and | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
hoping to get as many European runners as possible to add to the | :46:44. | :46:49. | |
glamour of that occasion. Horses are not here yet. So we can give | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
you a full rundown of the runners and riders with Jim. | :46:54. | :47:03. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 55 seconds | :47:04. | :48:03. | |
One of the best Arc fields seen for quality line-up in the pre-parade | :48:03. | :48:07. | |
ring at the moment. The horses being saddled up before they are | :48:07. | :48:14. | |
brought out in front of this fantastic crowd here. That is like | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
a... There is Sarafina, the favourite. That is like a | :48:18. | :48:22. | |
collecting ring. After they get saddled they get into their right | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
order and before they come out to parade around the paddock they | :48:27. | :48:33. | |
always come out here together in their race card order. That's like | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
a collecting ring away from everybody. A moment to collect your | :48:36. | :48:40. | |
thoughts as well for connections and horses to remain as calm for as | :48:41. | :48:48. | |
long as possible? Yes. It is the most beautiful paddock and | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
situation here at Longchamp with all these nice trees. The trees | :48:53. | :49:03. | |
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turning to all the different colours of brown. Andre Fabre there. | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
Bo Derek wouldn't have had to supplement anything? We have | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
already interviewed Bo Derek. was she? She was fine. I did ask | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
her if I got her into trouble asking her about her bikini! That | :49:27. | :49:37. | |
is the Japanese presenter giving her... Support to their two runners. | :49:37. | :49:42. | |
The Japanese contingent fancy both their horses. I think they think | :49:42. | :49:46. | |
Hiruno D'Amour might be the one. Because he is working so well. | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
Since he's arrived here, he's had his trial race. He's improved on | :49:51. | :49:59. | |
his trial. He's given out his wellbeing by galloping and working | :49:59. | :50:06. | |
so well here. So they have got high hopes of a Japanese winner for the | :50:06. | :50:14. | |
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. other horse, Nakayama Festa was | :50:14. | :50:22. | |
second to Workforce last year. the preparation with this race in | :50:22. | :50:26. | |
mind. He will run, obviously, better than he's run since the race | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
last year. He will do a bit better than he did last year. That is what | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
the Japanese will be hoping. I don't know who that guy is, do you? | :50:35. | :50:40. | |
I don't know. I guess he is famous. Here is another famous person. | :50:40. | :50:48. | |
is the most successful trainer in Arc history, Andre Fabre. Meandre | :50:48. | :50:53. | |
is not a bad substitute? Exactly. He showed similar form on good | :50:53. | :50:58. | |
ground. So I think he will have a fair chance. How do you assess the | :50:58. | :51:03. | |
quality of the race? There's a lot of question marks in this race. The | :51:03. | :51:06. | |
quality of the three-year-olds compared to the older horses, to | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
the females as well. A lot of questions. It looks quite an open | :51:09. | :51:15. | |
race. In terms of your confidence coming into it, compared to the | :51:15. | :51:20. | |
other winners of the Arc, how are you feeling? He is more of a hope | :51:20. | :51:25. | |
than a certainty. He has a big heart. He likes the fast ground. | :51:25. | :51:32. | |
I'm - he will run a good race. Thank you. Andre Fabre. And the | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
horses still haven't appeared from the saddling boxes. They get | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
saddled up down in the cool over here and get led out by a show | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
horse almost. It is quite a performance, quite dramatic. It | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
also means that most owners and trainers are still down there with | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
their horses and the crowd waiting to get their first glimpse. They | :51:52. | :51:59. | |
won't come round very many times, so keep your eyes peeled. Let's | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
take a look at two of the main protagonists for this race. In a | :52:03. | :52:13. | |
moment, we will have a look at the form guide. Sarafina going round | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
the paddock again. Sarafina, Willie owned by the Aga Khan. He tends to | :52:17. | :52:24. | |
retire them at three. He was determined to keep her in training | :52:24. | :52:30. | |
for this particular day, to take revenge for what happened last year, | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
or avenge what happened last year? Yes, she's the favourite. You would | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
have to think she has a first rate chance of winning this race this | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
year. But there are a lot of animals in the race with great | :52:43. | :52:53. | |
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chances. Hasn't he got a lovely beard?! The walrus. Two of the | :52:54. | :53:01. | |
horses were seen in last year's Eclipse. Snow Fairy ends up being | :53:01. | :53:09. | |
beaten a long way. How good a race was this? He was committed to go | :53:09. | :53:15. | |
early, Workforce, and try and take the sting out of So You Think. He | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
wasn't able to do so, So You Think had just that little bit of turn of | :53:18. | :53:25. | |
foot that he couldn't repel. There you can see that this Australian- | :53:25. | :53:30. | |
New Zealand bred horse, a champion, a big superstar that he is, won the | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
day. Snow Fairy there, she finished quite a way back. She was having | :53:34. | :53:42. | |
her first run for quite some time. She would improve. That's when she | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
went to Leopardstown. She got a lot closer to So You Think. So if she | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
improves again, that cloudys the picture even more. Yes, it does. | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
Workforce, though, people will say that he is back to the trip that | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
suits him best, the mile-and-a- half? It definitely will. He will | :54:01. | :54:07. | |
be suited by that. What about So You Think? So You Think - I would | :54:07. | :54:12. | |
have preferred a mile and a quarter with him. I definitely know that he | :54:12. | :54:20. | |
is the best horse. That's over a mile and a quarter. So You Think | :54:20. | :54:24. | |
will be running in the colours of Derek Smith, as will St Nicholas | :54:24. | :54:27. | |
Abbey and Treasure Beach. Is it luck that the three of them are in | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
your purple and white? Absolutely. That is the way it goes. It is | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
great to have the choice to choose the colour hats. They are three | :54:36. | :54:41. | |
talented horses. How do you sum them up? Well, Treasure Beach, he's | :54:41. | :54:46. | |
done nothing wrong this year. Wins the Irish Derby. Wins in America. | :54:46. | :54:51. | |
So You Think, his reputation goes before him. St Nicholas Abbey, I | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
suppose a champion two-year-old. Didn't make it last year. This year, | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
ran some solid races. We are hoping for the best. We wish you luck. The | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
horses have come into the parade ring. They are headed by Workforce, | :55:04. | :55:10. | |
last year's winner, who looks very relaxed and very cool. It is an | :55:10. | :55:15. | |
extremely warm day here. So interesting to see who is sweating | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
up and who is absolutely fine. 2 is St Nicholas Abbey. We were talking | :55:20. | :55:27. | |
to his owner. He is a fine-boned horse. Not much of him. 3, the grey, | :55:27. | :55:34. | |
that is Silver Pond. Then we have Hiruno D'Amour followed by Nakayama | :55:34. | :55:39. | |
Festa who was second in the race last year. Here comes the big beast, | :55:39. | :55:44. | |
So You Think. Pat giving us a wink. He is enormous! He's got the tattoo, | :55:44. | :55:50. | |
the numbers that you see on New Zealand-bred horses. He did all his | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
racing in Australia. He's only been beaten once in five starts since he | :55:55. | :56:01. | |
joined Aidan O'Brien. This looks as if it is Treasure Beach. It is. He | :56:01. | :56:08. | |
is getting a bit warm. That is Meandre. Then we have Masked Marvel. | :56:08. | :56:13. | |
He has been supplemented in the race, a St Leger winner. Now we | :56:13. | :56:18. | |
have Sarafina. So we will have a whole string of fillies. That is | :56:18. | :56:23. | |
Snow Fairy and then with the sheepskin nose band we have Shareta. | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
Testosterone here. I think that is a bizarre name for a filly. I have | :56:27. | :56:37. | |
to say, -- I think that is a bizarre name for a filly, I have to | :56:37. | :56:47. | |
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say. Danedream and then Galikova. We are going to try and find the | :56:50. | :56:53. | |
Workforce team. Ryan Moore coming back after his very serious injury, | :56:53. | :56:59. | |
which saw him out for two months with a broken thumb and a broken | :56:59. | :57:07. | |
shoulder. Obviously, Workforce have been concerned about the -- | :57:07. | :57:13. | |
obviously workforce - the team have been concerned about the ground. | :57:13. | :57:19. | |
Sir Michael Stoute in the grey suit right in front of us. Remember, | :57:19. | :57:25. | |
this is a big price for a horse that won the race last year but won | :57:25. | :57:33. | |
the Derby in a record time. If you pan down for me, Prince Khalid | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
having a look at Ryan Moore's thumb and hand and checking with him if | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
he is all fit to go and he is saying he very much is. Came back | :57:41. | :57:46. | |
on Friday with two rides on Ascot and said after that there will be | :57:46. | :57:53. | |
no problem, and the Arc and riding Workforce in the Arc was very much | :57:53. | :57:58. | |
the catalyst for the speed of his return. He wouldn't have bothered | :57:58. | :58:04. | |
for just any old race or horse. But this is the one that he wanted to | :58:04. | :58:11. | |
be here for and just - Michael? Can I ask you one thing? Can I ask you | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
one thing? Ryan is all set to go. Is the horse all right? Are you | :58:15. | :58:25. | |
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suitable as last year, but yeah, he is in good shape and he travelled | :58:28. | :58:36. | |
well. Yeah, in good nick. Alain de Royer-Dupre Has two | :58:36. | :58:46. | |
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runners and both are fancied. You can see Christophe Lemaire with | :58:48. | :58:53. | |
his arm around Christophe's shoulder. | :58:53. | :59:00. | |
You can see the cameras. They are all focusing on the owner. He has | :59:00. | :59:06. | |
had so much success over the years as did his grandfather and it is a | :59:06. | :59:11. | |
race that he doesn't just ask his trainers to train horses for, he | :59:11. | :59:18. | |
breeds them to try and win the Arc and Alain de Royer-Dupre talking | :59:18. | :59:24. | |
through what they might be trying to do with Sarafina. Last year we | :59:24. | :59:34. | |
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saw how unlucky she was when Midas Touch came through the field. | :59:34. | :59:42. | |
Sarafina has an outstanding chance and Shareta too. | :59:42. | :59:46. | |
The jockey in the foreground is the man who I suspect will set the pace | :59:46. | :59:52. | |
and decide how fast they're going and that is an important part of | :59:52. | :59:59. | |
the scene. Let's dive over here and have a look and she if we can find | :59:59. | :00:06. | |
John gas den who has -- Gosden who has Masked Marvel in the race. | :00:06. | :00:10. | |
William Buick must be bursting with confidence because it has been a | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
good afternoon for him already and John Gosden advising the owners to | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
pay the 100,000 euros to supplement Masked Marvel as a late entry into | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
the Arc after he won the St Ledger and he won the St Ledger in record | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
time so he is a horse who can stay, but he has plenty of pace as well. | :00:29. | :00:35. | |
He has a turn of foot and they are happy to take their chance. And | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
William Buick going to get a leg up. Some of the jockeys are on board, | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
Workforce who is watchdoging behind John, he -- walking behind John, | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Ryan Moore won't get on until he gets to the exit. Let's look at the | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 55 seconds | :01:01. | :02:04. | |
Just getting on her toes. Snow Fairy is cool and Frankie is cool | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
as well. Galikova with Olivier Peslier. Olivier and Frankie are | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
both trying to win the Arc for the fourth time which would put them | :02:14. | :02:22. | |
among a list of record winning jockeys in the race including | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
Freddie Hett. Now here comes Ryan Moore on Workforce. You can have a | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
look. He has this Australian nose band on, the orange one and a cross | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
nose bnd over that -- band over the top of that to keep his mouth shut | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
and he can hold him in the early stages. It is a warm day and I | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
don't think he looks too bad. He looks well in fact. Joseph O'Brien | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
gets his first ride in the Arc on St Nicholas Abbey. He is a | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
difficult ride. He is warm. He is a fractious horse, but Joseph has | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
ridden him already in top class company and I think actually will | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
just ride him with full confidence and probably drop his hands on him | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
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and try and relax him and say, "If you are good enough, go and do it." | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
Here is So You Think. He must be 100 kilos heavier. Behind him, | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Treasure Beach is dripping with sweat. It looks like he has bubbled | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
over and that's the problem, you know, yes, OK fine to sweat when it | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
is this warm, but if you get that geed up, you will expand energy and | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
negate your chances. All right, Frankie. He is so relaxed. He is so | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
:03:57. | :03:57. | ||
happy. "look at me." He says. So really exciting Arc de Triomphe. A | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
great race in prospect. Sarafina looks calm and collected | :04:01. | :04:09. | |
and unlike a few in in this field, Willie. It is a very hot day, but | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
if there is one horse who did look a little bit warmer than most which | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
was Treasure Beach. He was just sweating a little bit too much and | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
of course, the other filly who is sweating is Galikova. She is | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
sweating a bit more than you would like. She only ran in her group 1-2 | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
weeks ago and she had a toughish race that day. It is not the ideal | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
thing to be running in a group one as the trial for another group one | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
against older horses and colts as well. | :04:44. | :04:51. | |
Well, the horses are about to come out for the Prix de l'Arc de | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
Triomphe. The best race for three- year-old and over in Europe. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Coming out into the course, there is a change of colours, number | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
three, Silver Pond. It will be different to what you're seeing in | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
the papers today, now purple and orange stripes. | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
The runners are coming out on to the course today for the Prix de | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
l'Arc de Triomphe of 2011. A field of 16. There is last year's winner, | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
Workforce. Let's have a look back to St | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
Nicholas Abbey and Joseph O'Brien wearing the black cap. A big thrill | :05:31. | :05:39. | |
for Joseph, 18 years of age and destined to become a jump jockey | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
and savouring every moment of his big opportunity to ride in one of | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
the world's great races. Such a thrill for a young rider. | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
Dropping back to number three, which is Silver Pond, 150-1 | :05:51. | :06:01. | |
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outsider. Dropping back to Hiruno D'Amour from Japan. One of the of | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
the two Japanese runners second to Sarafina. There is last year's | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
runner-up, Nakayama Festa. A very brave second to Workforce last year | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
and Ryan Moore having to dig very deep to repel this challenger from | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
Japan. He has has been lively since then. So You Think, the New Zealand | :06:27. | :06:36. | |
bred, Australian champion. He is twice the winner of the Copse Plate | :06:36. | :06:45. | |
in Australia. He has come to Europe and won four of his five races. The | :06:45. | :06:51. | |
hopes of many nations resting on this fellow. He was bred in New | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
Zealand and trained in Ireland. Treasure Beach, the Irish Derby | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
winner. That's number seven, that's Sarafinament third last year and a | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
very unlucky third as well and since she has been out and she has | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
come back to racing in good form. She won a race in the summer. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
They are making their way, a few of them are breaking off. Yellow with | :07:16. | :07:26. | |
the dark blue cap, you will see, the winner over a distance. They | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
have broken away now and they are making their way to the mile-and-a- | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
half start for the the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
It is worth �1.9 million to the winner, but for than that, it is | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
worth a place in history. It is one of the greatest races in the world. | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
The greatest in Europe. What a star line-up we have this sear. | :07:49. | :07:59. | |
:07:59. | :08:19. | ||
going to get the better of Seville head towards the line. Sarafina has | :08:19. | :08:29. | |
:08:29. | :08:31. | ||
lengths clear and he is going to win comprehensively. Reliable Man | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
wins. And it is Galikova now who goes on | :08:36. | :08:46. | |
:08:46. | :08:51. | ||
in the St Ledger. And Galikova has Think and Snow Fairy really put it | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
:09:01. | :09:02. | ||
up to him. William Buick wants a go. | :09:02. | :09:10. | |
It is Masked Marvel for John Gosden and William Buickment they win by | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
was Treasure Beach, Hiruno D'Amour and Galikova, I've changed my mind | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
and looking a the them in the paddock, the shortlist as far as | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
I'm concerned is Workforce, So You Think, who looks magnificent and | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
Snow Fairy. I don't know. What do you think, Willie? I would pick six | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
horses to win the race. I'm going to go for Sarafina because she has | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
had the best, not the best, but a perfect preparation for this race. | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
Let's hear from the man who trains more horses in the race than anyone | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
else, Aidan O'Brien. Aidan O'Brien ushered his three | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
three runners down to the start. How are they taking the | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
preliminaries? So far everything seems to be fine. It seems that So | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
You Think is your number one hope. A mile-and-a-half, do you think | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
that that is a trip that will suit him? We have never raced him beyond | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
a mile and a a quarter so you are never sure. He is a horse who has | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
plenty of pace over a mile and a quarter. It will be interesting. | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
His run was in the Melbourne Cup over two miles. Different | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
conditions of a race. In these races, it will be interesting to | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
see. What's the story with Treasure | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
Beach? Clare pointed out that he was getting warm. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
He does that. He is a sweater. We would be probably be more worried | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
if he doesn't do it. That's the type of horse he is. He comes up | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
for it when the time comes. St Nicholas Abbey is a horse that | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
does that as well? A horse with nervous energy as well. They They | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
seem to be fine. Aidan, best of luck, and hopefully | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
you will be celebrating in a few minutes time. | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
I appreciate that. Joseph O'Brien, you can see how tall his legs are. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
He wants to be a jump jockey. He is doing very well as a flat | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
jockey. He wants to stick to that. If he can keep doing nine stone, | :11:13. | :11:18. | |
why not keep going especially when he has a daddy with so many good | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
horses. There will be a lot of horses under nine stone and above | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
that he can ride. He could keep going for another year or maybe two. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
He is riding this horse here today in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. I | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
wonder if he will be one of the horses who will be upfront. He is a | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
horse that would actually he is a stayer and him being up the front, | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
out of trouble, he is not a horse that you could sit in behind. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Interesting. I thought they might ride him differently and drop him | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
out. Almost ride him as if it doesn't matter. Yes, but he hasn't | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
got the speed to help him get out of trouble. In the Arc, it is like | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
the Derby, it is rough. Nobody gives you a quarter. Every jockey | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
is looking after themselves. They don't care about anybody else | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
In terms of French betting, he is coupled with So You Think and also | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
with Treasure Beach, but with UK bookmakers you can back them | :12:17. | :12:27. | |
:12:27. | :12:40. | ||
individually and there are the 1. A very good price. Three-year- | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
olds have a good record in this race, the colts and and Alain de | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
Royer-Dupre does think a lot of this guy. | :12:53. | :13:01. | |
It will be an interesting race. You think St Nicholas Abbey. There | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
will be somebody ready to make the running in the Arc. It is very | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
rarely run at a steady pace. They are hoping to get a trouble- | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
free race with Sarafina. All we want is for everybody to get | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
a nice, clean run. It is unlikely. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
It is unlikely but there is a horse, he looked magnificent in the | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
paddock. His skin was beautiful. looks really well. If he hadn't of | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
:13:40. | :13:41. | ||
hung so badly in the King George, but then he ran stinking in the | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
King George. We're in for a treat. We have a lot | :13:46. | :13:55. | |
of class, classic type mile-and-a- half horses and So You Think | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
possibly, he will give a good account of himself, but obviously | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
will he be as good at mile-and-a- half as a mile mile and a quarterer | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
:14:15. | :14:16. | ||
and if he is, possibly he will be watching their two contenders. | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
Jim? So the runners are in. Only one | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
more to go forward for the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, a mile- | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
and-a-half, Europe's richest race. And the last one going forward now. | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
They are locked away. Ready to go now in the Prix de l'Arc de | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Triomphe. They are racing! And to the roar of the crowd. In the | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
centre, one of the first away Treasure Beach, up there too | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Shareta going on with St Nicholas Abbey, just behind them on the | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
inside the Japanese runner Hiruno D'Amour, settles in fourth position. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
They are followed by Testosterone who is in the centre, Masked Marvel | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
is further back, followed by Reliable Man, Danedream is on the | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
inside, Workforce in the middle of the field. Galikova on his inside, | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
followed by Meandre, Snow Fairy back then with So You Think, in | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
company with Sarafina, Nakayama Festa and Silver Pond is at the | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
tail of the field. Shareta is out in front and Treasure Beach goes on | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
from Shareta, they are two lengths to Testosterone, further back in | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
fourth position is St Nicholas Abbey on the inside of Masked | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Marvel. Meandre, the white face on the outside, the yellow cap with | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
the yellow colours in behind, Workforce, Snow Fairy further back, | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
Sarafina is very wide. They race now towards the far edge of the | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
course, 1,200 metres to travel, six furlongs from home. Out in front | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Treasure Beach from Shareta, in third is St Nicholas Abbey from | :15:56. | :15:59. | |
Testosterone, followed then by Hiruno D'Amour on the inside of | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
Masked Marvel, a length-and-a-half to Danedream, further back in the | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
field is So You Think who has dropped to third last, Meandre is | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
about -- has six runners behind him. They are followed by Galikova, then | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
Nakayama Festa, followed by Workforce who is well back again | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
this year. So You Think has three behind him. Silver Pond is one of | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
them. It is now Joseph O'Brien who drives St Nicholas Abbey up in the | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
centre to take the lead as they come to the home turn. On the | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
inside Treasure Beach, they are followed by Shareta who is battling | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
on well. They are followed by Danedream and out wide of them is | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
Hiruno D'Amour, followed by Snow Fairy who is battling on well. It | :16:45. | :16:49. | |
is anybody's race, the Arc. They race up now half-way up the home | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
straight and now Danedream for Germany takes it up, from Shareta, | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
followed by St Nicholas Abbey, Snow Fairy coming late and So You Think, | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
but Danedream goes on to win the Arc. In second place is Shareta and | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
third then Snow Fairy, followed by So You Think, came from nowhere. | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
They were followed by St Nicholas Abbey, further back Sarafina who | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
couldn't get into it, Silver Pond, further back Nakayama Festa and | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
among the tailenders as they pull up Treasure Beach, Masked Marvel | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
and Reliable Man and Workforce is among the tailenders as well. But | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
it's Danedream who has won it for Andre Starke and also for Peter | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Schiergen. The second German winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
This filly, who was third in the Italian Derby and winner of the | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
Oaks in Italy has come good and she's won it by a street. Look at | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
this. Danedream has won it for Peter Schiergen. In second was | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
Shareta, who was there for a long way. In third is Snow Fairy. The | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
former Australian champion, So You Think, has come from third last. | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
Then St Nicholas Abbey and Meandre, they go to the line together. | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
Meandre on the near side. Sarafina was trapped very wide early and | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
could never get into it. Three parts of the way then is Silver | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
Pond who ran on from a long way back. Then a long gap to the | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
tailenders. Galikova, Olivier Peslier, Hirlas Horn for Japan, who | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
was up there early. And behind them, Nakayama Festa in company with | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
Workforce. And behind them was Testosterone who was handy early | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
and dropped out. Treasure Beach, who took on a pace making role | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
today, has tired, as you might expect to finish towards the rear. | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
Here is the winner and we said beforehand one of the best | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
collection of horses in Europe seen for many years, a true vintage Arc | :19:12. | :19:22. | |
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on paper. This filly, Danedream, has absolutely walked it. What a | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
feeling this must be for you? fantastic. I don't believe it. | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
say you don't believe it. The stands were very quiet. They | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
couldn't believe this filly has come from out of the blue? Yes. | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
This is the best horse that I trained in my life. First German | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
winner since Star Appeal, how special is that for you? A good | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
moment. Thank you. Peter Schiergen, the greatest | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
moment of his life. A versatile filly, this. When she won the | :19:58. | :20:05. | |
Italian Oaks it was fast ground. Here she's come on perfect good | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
ground and Danedream has come home in front and a one-two-three finish | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
for the fillies. Snow Fairy the best of the British coming home in | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
third and she had no hard luck stories, Frankie Dettori got the | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
gaps when she needed them. But an extraordinary race really because | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
Shareta, who was there as a pacemaker for Sarafina, managed to | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
hang on and take second place. Danedream has blown them away. | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
it seems a strange result but this filly has won a long way. This | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
filly has just galloped them into the ground. She's won quite a long | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
way. And the ground is what can be described as good ground. So there | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
is no real excuses. We didn't see horses getting knocked over. It | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
looked a clean-run race. Everybody seemed to keep straight. This filly | :20:59. | :21:07. | |
is obviously a very much improving three-year-old filly. I did say | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
about three fillies finishing one- two-three but not in that recorder. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Not those three! Extraordinary, and a three-year-old takes it once | :21:16. | :21:23. | |
again. Real emotional scenes here. Germany will go mad for this. This | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
is a real boost for their breeding, for their racing, for them in terms | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
of sport. It's a long time since Star Appeal... 1975. Of course, | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
German racing is going through quite a bad patch for prize money | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
and keeping the racing going, the betting public are not betting as | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
much as they used to. This will help German racing a tremendous | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
amount getting to win the greatest race over a mile-and-a-half | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
basically in the whole world. you said any one of eight horses | :22:04. | :22:13. | |
could win this? This was not one of them. This filly, only last week, | :22:13. | :22:23. | |
:22:23. | :22:24. | ||
was bought by by a Japanese man, he bought a half share in her. That | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
was money well spent! Obviously, I would imagine this filly will end | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
up going back to Japan to be bred over there. There are a lot of | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
perplexed faces around the paddock. People shaking their heads. One guy | :22:37. | :22:44. | |
went, "I backed that!" Somebody from Germany had told him. There's | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
a lot of jockeys walking in with long faces. They are wondering what | :22:51. | :22:59. | |
the hell went on. Well, what went on was this filly, Danedream, just | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
galloped them into the ground. She is an exceptionally good filly. Of | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
course, she's won her last two races and she's a German filly who | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
is doing well. The German bloodstock, even in England, is | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
doing so much better. Breeders are always buying German fillies | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
because they have oar the years bred -- over the years bred sound | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
horses, horses that haven't had any problems. They are not allowed to | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
breed in Germany unless they are 100% sound. It is all coming out | :23:36. | :23:46. | |
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now. There you have it, winning the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
winner coming back now and Peter Schiergen who was one of the great | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
riders in Germany - in fact I think one year he had more winners in his | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
successful season than Sir Gordon Richards had in the UK. I think he | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
had 271 winners. He's switched to training and he's obviously one of | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
the key figures in the training ranks in Germany. This is his | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
biggest success. The last German- trained winner was Star Appeal | :24:25. | :24:35. | |
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ridden by Greville Starkey. That horse started 119-1. Today, I think | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
around the 27-1, 28-1 mark. The time was exceptionally fast, | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
2:24.49. At the start, let's have a look. Have a look at Workforce in | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
the green colours with the pink cap. He jumped away OK. Now, lying in | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
seventh or eighth position in the centre. This is the point at which | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
they are trying to hold position, trying to establish that position | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
for the rest of the trip, or certainly for the next three- | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
quarters of the race. And just at this point, Ryan Moore, in the | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
saddle, watch him, you can see Reliable Man poking up on his | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
inside. Meandre is on his outside. Look at this, he is the meat in the | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
sandwich. He has had to check back out of that and that is really off- | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
putting. That is So You Think behind him. There is Andre Starke, | :25:37. | :25:43. | |
coming back, the winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. A great | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
moment for German racing, as Willie was saying. They breed very, very | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
good stayers, but a blend of bloodlines in recent years has | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
meant they are turning out outstanding racehorses on the | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
world's stage. This is one of them. Frankie Dettori there disappearing | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
from shot. There he is. Getting a pat on the shoulder. He wishes he | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
was there of course! There is Andre Starke, unsaddling Danedream after | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
this memorable victory. She's a filly who has just come good. If | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
you look back at her recent record, two starts ago she won a Group 1 | :26:27. | :26:33. | |
there by five lengths. Last time, she won by six lengths and seven. | :26:33. | :26:41. | |
Really in great form. There's the German flag. German | :26:41. | :26:50. | |
punters happy. So they should be. And there is winning jockey. And | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
this is a great international race. It goes around the world. These | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
images will be going everywhere, predominantly Germany. Here is Ed | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
Dunlop, the trainer of Snow Fairy, talking to Clare. | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
Snow Fairy finished third for Ed Dunlop. Slightly frustrating | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
because third again. She's run great? We are very proud of her. | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
She was the leading older horse in the race. The fillies one, two, | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
three, so very pleased. She is very much an autumn-winter horse? Sure. | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
That was only the fourth run of the year. She will, as long as she is | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
OK, she will go back to the Japan for the race she won last year. | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
Maybe the Japan Cup and on to Hong Kong. Let's hear from the winning | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
jockey with Rishi. Take us through the closing stages, | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
that must have been a dream for you? It was a dream for me to ride | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
in this race. I know the filly wasn't a great performance, it was | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
a very competitive race and good horses. In the last two furlongs, | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
she kicked and I was, the last two furlongs I was dreaming. I didn't | :28:00. | :28:04. | |
know what happened. This is a really dream come true. Many | :28:04. | :28:11. | |
congratulations. Well done. Well, this is an incredible time, we are | :28:11. | :28:20. | |
still checking it at the moment. We think this is faster than 1997 - | :28:20. | :28:30. | |
:28:30. | :28:54. | ||
2:24.49. It could be one of the is that and that is confirmed, that | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
reinforces what a terrific performance this is from Danedream. | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
What happened to Sarafina? What happened to So You Think? The three | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
of them are in the line, the second line of horses. Sarafina on the | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
outside, So You Think next to him and Workforce. You saw how he got | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
interfered with early on in the race and we can track them through | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
to see what happened. Sarafina, never had any trouble at all, did | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
she? She came down the outside and didn't have the turn of foot needed. | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
As we now know this was run in record time. So obviously they are | :29:29. | :29:34. | |
going too fast for her and so she has come with her run-down the | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
outside, there you can see her coming, but she is not picking up | :29:37. | :29:43. | |
fast enough. And obviously this filly in front ran an exceptional | :29:43. | :29:48. | |
race today. Something that she has never done before. | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
They are coming into the weighing room and there is always a great | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
reception for the winning jockey of the Arc. They are formally sprayed | :29:56. | :30:03. | |
with champagne and all sorts. And Frankie gives him a big hug as | :30:03. | :30:10. | |
well. It is interesting because Frankie and Olivier are generous to | :30:10. | :30:18. | |
people winning big races. They know how much it means and how huge a | :30:18. | :30:28. | |
:30:28. | :30:28. | ||
minute it is and for someone like Andrew starky. -- Andrew Starke, in | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
two weeks time we will be live at Ascot. | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
You can expect to see Frankel there and Twice Over as well and a line | :30:39. | :30:46. | |
up of stars in different divisions. After this, you can see highlights | :30:46. | :30:51. | |
of the Super League. A fantastic match between Warrington and Leeds. | :30:52. | :31:01. | |
The Grand Final is next weekend and Willie and I both be there. | :31:01. | :31:08. | |
It has been an extraordinary day. I've really enjoyed todayment I'm | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
shell shocked by how good a racehorse that Danedream is. Yes. | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
I can't believe a filly can go and break the track record like that. | :31:17. | :31:20. |