Given she got in a right sweat behind the stalls, the leeway the pacemaker was given and the fact that a lot of Aidan’s horses have been beaten and looked badly in need of their first runs of the season, I was pleasantly surprised by today’s performance.
Think the Arc could be closer especially if it is not run on bottomless ground like last year, fillies can improve markedly more than the colts from 3 to 4 and with the weight allowance too, I am not sure he has as much in hand even if he is a better 4 yr old than 3 yr old.
Daryz’s only bad run was on good to firm at York and in any case (all things being equal) we may very well see them clash earlier at Royal Ascot against Ombudsman in the Prince of Wales……that would be the race of he meeting for sure.