2014 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

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2014 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe
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2014 Prix l'Arc de Triomphe winner, Treve
Location Longchamp Racecourse
DateOctober 5, 2014 (2014-10-05)
Winning horse Treve
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The 2014 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday, 5 October 2014. It was the 93rd running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

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The winner was Al Shaqab Racing's Treve, a four-year-old filly trained in France by Criquette Head-Maarek and ridden by Thierry Jarnet, repeating her victory in 2013. She became the first horse since Alleged to win the race twice. Treve's victory gave Head her third win in the race and was a record-equaling fourth success for Jarnet.

The contenders

The 2013 winner Treve returned and attracted some support, despite having been beaten in all three of her races in 2014. The most fancied of the French runners were the three-year-olds Ectot, winner of the Prix Niel and the unbeaten filly Avenir Certain winner of the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches and the Prix de Diane. The other French contenders included Flintshire (2013 Grand Prix de Paris), Dolniya (Prix de Malleret), Prince of Gibraltar (2013 Critérium de Saint-Cloud) and Spiritjim (disqualified after winning the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud). There were three runners from Japan, headed by the Dubai Duty Free winner Just A Way who was moving up in distance. The other Japanese runners were the multiple Grade I winner Gold Ship and the filly Harp Star who had won the Oka Sho and recorded an upset win over Gold Ship at Sapporo in August. Britain was represented by Taghrooda, a three-year-old filly who had won the Epsom Oaks and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, the St Leger winner Kingston Hill and the six-year-old Al Kazeem, winner of the 2013 Eclipse Stakes who had been returned to racing after an unsuccessful spell at stud. There were three runners from Ireland, all from the Ballydoyle stable: Ruler of the World who had won the 2013 Epsom Derby and returned to form with a win in the Prix Foy, Tapestry who had recorded an upset win over Taghrooda in the Yorkshire Oaks and Chicquita, winner of the Irish Oaks in 2013. Germany was represented by the four-year-old Ivanhowe, who had defeated Sea The Moon (who had been ante-post favourite for the Arc) in the Grosser Preis von Baden. [1] Taghrooda was sent off the 5.5/1 favourite, ahead of Avenir Certain (6/1), Ectot (6.7/1), Harp Star (6.9/1), and Just A Way (8/1) with Treve starting at odds of 14.4/1.

The race

Ruler of the World started quickly, but was soon overtaken by Montviron, the pacemaker for Ectot. [2]

Flintshire, Taghrooda and Kingston Hill stayed on well, and Harp Star made rapid progress on the wide outside from a seemingly impossible position, but none of them were able to mount a serious challenge to the leader. Treve won by two lengths from Flintshire with Taghrooda in third ahead of Kingston Hill, Dolniya and Harp Star. [3]

Race details

Full result

Pos.Marg.HorseAgeJockeyTrainer (Country)
1 Treve 4 Thierry Jarnet Criquette Head-Maarek (FR)
22 Flintshire 4 Maxime Guyon André Fabre (FR)
3 Taghrooda 3 Paul Hanagan John Gosden (GB)
4¾ Kingston Hill 3 Andrea Atzeni Roger Varian (GB)
5nkDolniya3 Christophe Soumillon Alain de Royer-Dupré (FR)
6nk Harp Star 3 Yuga Kawada Hiroyoshi Matsuda (JPN)
7hdPrince Gibraltar3Jean-Bernard Eyquem Jean-Claude Rouget (FR)
8shd Just A Way 5 Yuichi Fukunaga Naosuke Sugai (JPN)
9¾ Ruler of the World 4 Frankie Dettori Aidan O'Brien (IRE)
10nse Al Kazeem 6 James Doyle Roger Charlton (GB)
11¾ Avenir Certain 3 Christophe Lemaire Jean-Claude Rouget (FR)
12nseSiljan's Saga4Pierre-Charles BoudotJ-P Gauvin (FR)
131 Tapestry 3 Ryan Moore Aidan O'Brien (IRE)
14hd Gold Ship 5 Norihiro Yokoyama Naosuke Sugai (JPN)
15 Chicquita 4 Joseph O'Brien Aidan O'Brien (IRE)
16nseSpiritjim4 Stéphane Pasquier Pascal Bary (FR)
17¾ Ectot 3 Gregory Benoist Élie Lellouche (FR)
18shdIvanhowe4 William Buick Jean-Pierre Carvalho (GER)
192Free Port Lux3 Mickael Barzalona Freddy Head (FR)
209Montviron3Cyrille Stefan Élie Lellouche (FR)

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, Treve

Subsequent breeding careers

Leading progeny of participants in the 2014 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Sires of Group/Grade One winners

Just A Way (8th)

Ruler of the World (9th)

Al Kazeem (10th)

Gold Ship (14th)

Other Stallions


Kingston Hill (4th) – Minor flat winners
Prince Gibraltar (7th) – Minor flat winners
Flintshire (2nd) – Exported to America – Offspring yet to race
Ectot (17th) – Offspring yet to race
Ivanhowe (18th) – Offspring yet to race
Free Port Lux (19th) – Offspring yet to race

Broodmares

Chicquita (15th) – Secret Thoughts (3rd Silver Flash Stakes 2018)
Taghrooda (3rd) – Minor flat winner
Harp Star (6th) – Minor runner in Japan
Tapestry (13th) – Minor flat winner
Avenir Certain (11th) – Exported to Japan – Minor runner
Treve (1st) – Offspring yet to race
Dolniya (5th) – Offspring yet to race
Siljan's Saga (12th) – Offspring yet to race

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