ARC HOPE PLEASES

FRENCH Guineas and Derby hero Brametot is reported to have been showing the right signs at home ahead of Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Chantilly.

A cloud had been hanging over him after the first disappointing run of his career when behind Eminent in last month’s Prix Guillaume d’Ornano at Deauville, but connections have been happy with what they have been seeing on the gallops recently.

Al Shaqab Racing bought into the Jean-Claude Rouget-trained Brametot before he won the Prix du Jockey Club and racing manager Harry Herbert said: “He has only run one poor race in his life and there was a good reason for it.

“He had to be wrong. He just ran no race at all, he didn’t even move well to post, and we subsequently found that he had ricked his back.

“He’s a different horse now and Rupert Pritchard-Gordon, who looks after Al Shaqab’s interests in France, has been very buoyant of late while Jean-Claude has liked what he’s seen too.

“Thankfully he looks much better, there are a lot of positives going into the weekend.

“There has been a turnaround, though, and I’d like to think he’s going there with a chance.”

Coral bet: 8-11 Enable, 13-2 Ulysses, 9 Order Of St George, 11 Brametot, Dschingis Secret, Highland Reel, 12 Winter, Zarak, 14 Capri, 16 Satono Diamond, 20 bar.