INSIDE: SEVEN UK RACES ON ITV4 FIRST CL SS

Superstar filly is ready to keep it in the family for Haggas in Arc cracker

SEA OF CLASS gets the vote to carry on a family tradition and lift the Prix de l’arc de Triomphe (3.05, ITV) at Longchamp tomorrow.

To follow in the prints of her sire, 2009 Arc hero Sea The Stars, and his dam

Urban Sea, victorious in 1993, Sea

Of Class must deny hot favourite

Enable (right) backto-back wins in the race she won so memorably at Chantilly 12 months ago.

But the William Haggas trainee has the profile to do exactly that after scoring at the highest level on her last two starts in the style of a filly who has a lot more to give. Unraced as a two-year-old, Sea Of Class was beaten in a Newmarket maiden before Listed-race wins at Newbury in May and June.

Haggas resisted the temptation to send my selection to Epsom for the Oaks in June, opting instead to prepare her for the Irish equivalent at the Curragh the following month.

The patient approach paid dividends – James Doyle’s mount came from the back to

deny Oaks winner Forever Together by a neck.

And Sea Of Class was simply electric when sprinting past her rivals for the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks at York in August, enjoying a two-and-a-quarter-length supremacy over Coronet.

There is plenty more where that came from and, while a draw in stall 15 could have been kinder, Sea Of Class is fancied to boost the recent record of threeyear-old fillies — triumphant in four of the past 10 runnings — in Europe’s middle-distance championship.

John Gosden’s Enable heads the market after a flawless — if delayed — return to action in the Group 3 September Stakes at Kempton four weeks days ago, and is not passed over lightly.

Andre Fabre’s Waldgeist led home stablemates

Talismanic and Cloth Of

Stars — as well as Way To

Paris (fourth), Aidan O’brien’s Capri (fifth) and

Clincher (sixth) in the Prix Foy on Longchamp’s Arc trials card last month.

He enters calculations, along with O’brien’s St Leger winner Kew

Gardens, but those seeking an each-way punt at big odds could do worse than

Neufbosc, a beaten favourite when third in the Prix Niel last time but expected to strip fitter for that run.

FRENCH FANCY Haggas