Daryz’s Arc reputation secure but retirement would rule out folk-hero status
Back-to-back wins is a huge achievement, but owners have more to think about than unprecedented third title
It was, as the moderator of the post-Arc press conference put it, the “difficult question everyone wants to ask”, but Princess Zahra Aga Khan, the owner of the winner, Daryz, did not seem to find it difficult at all.
“Look, we’re breeders,” she said, “and you get to the point where you’re taking a risk every time you run the horse. Would we want him to train on for another year? I’m not sure. I think he has other things to do.”
