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Prix Marcel Boussac (12.55pm) preview
A fascinating contest between three hugely-promising two-year-old fillies to open the Group One action on Arc day. Francis Graffard’s Zarigana, a grand-daughter of the brilliant, unbeaten Arc winner Zarkava, is the likely favourite, having won her first two startsby a combined seven lengths, but she faces stern opposition from Aidan O’Brien’s Bedtime Story, whose unbeaten record went west when she finished fifth and last in the Moyglare Stud Stakes last time. She was subsequently found to be lame, however, and had set off at odds-on in a race that was won by her stable companion, Lake Victoria, the easy winner of last week’s Group One Cheveley Park Stakes. Ollie Sangster’s Simmering, meanwhile, also deserves close consideration, having finished a length-and-a-quarter behind Lake Victoria in the same event.
SELECTION: ZARIGANA
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2024/oct/06/horse-racing-arc-de-triomphe-longchamp-live-updates
Author : Tony Paley with Greg Wood at Longchamp
Publish date : 2024-10-06 11:27:04
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