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 titleIt 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…
Daryz makes history with back-to-back Arc de Triomphe triumphs
Winning rider Barzalona hails ‘exceptional horse’Stud beckons over bid for unprecedented third winIt was a very different, distinctly brutalist Longchamp that last saw a colt go back-to-back in the Arc, and 48 years on from Alleged’s second victory in…
Paris magic and tradition keep the Arc in a class of its own above the latest gimmicks
It may not be the official best race in the world but winning at Longchamp still confers a status little else can matchWhen France-Galop announced in June that geldings will be allowed to run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe from 2027, there was an…