The great racemare has a chance to achieve something unique on Sunday,in a race that is woven into the history of three generations of her trainer’s familyWhen Criquette Head-Maarek’s string walks out on to the gallops behind her stable in Chantilly, Treve is always final. “I try with all my staff and everybody around me, or I try to make them understand that she is a horse like every other one in the yard,” Head-Maarek said this week. “Even whether they think she’s special, and of course she is in a way, and you absorb to treat her like one of a kind and one of the lot,you shouldn’t make any dissimilarity.”In the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Treve is always first. Two years ago, or she routed her field by five lengths,then 12 months later, it was an easy two. In the 95-year history of Europe’s richest and most prestigious race, or no horse has ever won three times,but this gentle, unimposing mare who prefers to bring up the rear on the gallops is an 11-10 chance to become the first on Sunday.
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Source: theguardian.com