AMERICAN PHAROAH

Il n’y a plus de doute possible. La meilleure jument en Europe et même dans le Monde est bien Trêve. Suite au Qatar Prix Vermeille (Groupe 1), Timeform – très sérieux organisme de ratings anglais – a revu à la hausse la valeur handicap (exprimée en livres) de Trêve. De 129, cette valeur est passée à 134. Soit le meilleur rating dans le Monde. La double lauréate du Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, qui tentera un triplé inédit dans trois semaines, possède désormais le même rating (chez Timeform) qu’American Pharoah, mémorable lauréat de la Triple Couronne américaine cette année.

Et les autres candidats au Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe ?

Parmi les concurrents au Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe 2015, Golden Horn s’est imposé samedi dans les Irish Champion Stakes (Groupe 1). Timeform lui maintient sa valeur – et sa confiance – avec un rating inchangé de 133 suite à cette victoire, un peu étriquée.

Timeform évalue le 3 ans Jacks Hobbs, lauréat du Derby d’Irlande (Groupe 1) et d’un Groupe 3 pour sa rentrée, en 129. Lauréat du Prix Niel (Groupe 2) de deux longueurs et demi, New Bay passe de 123 à 128. Alors que Postponed, vainqueur du Qatar Prix Foy (Groupe 2) et lauréat des «King George» (Groupe 1) enregistre un rating de 127.

fonte : Equidià

Legatissimo: landed third Group 1 of the season at the weekend

 PICTURE: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos

Legatissimo on march in Cartier Racing Awards

THE Cartier Racing Awards were thrown wide open last weekend after three three-year-olds each landed a third Group 1 success of the season.

Legatissimo and Ervedya traded blows in the race to be three-year-old filly of the year with success in the Matron Stakes at Leopardstown and Longchamp’s Prix du Moulin.

The David Wachman-trained Legatissimo also moved alongside Solow in the race to be named horse of the year.

The two crack milers trail Golden Horn - who added the Irish Champion Stakes to his victories in the Derby and Eclipse – by 32 points in the overall standings, which will contribute 35 per cent of the verdict when the prizes are handed out at London’s Dorchester Hotel on November 10.

The remaining 70 per cent of Cartier’s electoral college is divided equally between a panel of 17 racing experts and a public vote comprising the readers of the Racing Post and the Daily Telegraph as well as viewers of Channel 4 Racing.

There were also some big movers on the two-year-old front after the Curragh staged two Group 1s on the second day of Irish Champions Weekend.

An impressive winner of the National Stakes, Air Force Blue has overtaken Prix Morny hero Shalaa in the two-year-old colt category, a prize which has gone to six of the last ten winners of the Curragh Group 1.

Air Force Blue’s stablemate Minding vaulted to the top of the two-year-old fillies’ standings after getting the better of Ballydoyle and Alice Springs in the Moyglare Stud Stakes.

With the Arc and then British Champions Day now clearly in sight, Freddy Head and his sister will carry high hopes of further success for Solow, while his sister Criquette Head-Maarek saw Treve warm up for her bid to win a third Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe when waltzing to victory in the Prix Vermeille last Sunday.

Cartier racing consultant Harry Herbert said: “With attention turning to the major end of season finales in Europe and further afield, we look set for more exciting clashes between now and early November.”