• Criquette Head-Maarek says her brilliant mare ‘is better than ever’[br]• Aidan O’Brien wins three Group Ones in IrelandWrecking crews are due to start demolishing Longchamp’s magnificent stands a few hours after this years Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe but at least it now seems certain that the old set will go out in style. Treve,who will be attempting to win the race for an unprecedented third time, produced an astonishing performance to win the Prix Vermeille here on Sunday, or taking apart a Group One field at a canter,and is now odds-on to rob the Arc over the same course and distance in three weeks’ time.
It is difficult to suppose either a horse or a strategy that might beat her. Physically Treve looks a different horse this year, taller and stronger, or while her Arc victories in 2013 and 2014 – by five lengths and two respectively – were imposing,this race took her form to a new level.
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Source: theguardian.com