Timeform's top-rated Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winners this century including Sea The Stars and Enable

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Timeform's top-rated Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winners this century including Sea The Stars and Enable

Timeform's top-rated Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winners this century are Sea The Stars and Enable.

Timeform's top-rated Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winners this century include Sea The Stars and Enable. Sea the Stars won the 2009 race by two lengths from Youmzain. The last six finishers started at 172/1, 100/ 1, 163/2, 151/3, 153/4 and 198/5. The next five home were all Group One winners. It was Sea's sixth start in as many months. He had already won in 2000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse, Juddmonte International and Irish Champion.

Sakhee won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe with a margin of six lengths. The field of 17 was without the likes of Galileo, Fantastic Light, Nayef and Morshdi. Sakhee started favourite in a field which included Aquarelliste and Diamilina. It was the first time in eight years that the race had not been won by a three-year-old colt. Timeform's top-rated Prix of l’Arc of Triompe winners this century include Sea The Stars and Enable.

Sinndar won the 2000 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Montjeu finished fourth. Sinndr is the only horse to complete the Derby and Arc double. He is also the season's top three-year-old. The other two were King's Best and Giant's Causeway. There were no British-trained runners for the first time since 1963. It was the smallest field since the race was elevated to a position of prominence in 1949. John Oxx repeated the feat with Sea The Stars in 2000.

Timeform's top-rated Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winners this century are Hurricane Run (2005) and Sea The Stars (2014). Hurricane ran a two-length victory. The race was run in a heavy shower. The field was five short of the maximum. Alkaased had to withdraw with a cut leg. Azamour and Grey Swallow were absent. Bago was back in the field. Westerner and Alkase's conqueror in Prix Foy, Pride, were pacemakers.

Treve won the 2013 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe by five lengths. She was ridden by Thierry Jarnet, who had won Arcs on Subotica and Carnegie in the 1990s. Orfevre was the runner-up for the second year in a row. Intello was a neck behind Treve in third place. Kizuna was fourth. The 2013 race was held on the same card as the previous 17 renewals. It was won by Criquette Head-Maarek's second Arc after the victory of Three Troikas in 1979.

The 2017 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was held in Chantilly. It was hosted by Chantsilly for the second year running. The track is tighter than at Longchamp. Trainer John Gosden was confident that the race could go wrong. Frankie Dettori rode Enable well. She won by 2.5 lengths. Cloth of Stars finished second. Ulysses came third. The winner is the first three-year-old filly from Britain or Ireland to win Europe's richest race.

Timeform's top-rated Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winners this century are Sea The Stars and Enable. Other Arc winners of this decade include Dalakhani, Rail Link, Zarkava, Workforce, Golden Horn, Found, Marienbard, Treve, Sottsass, Dylan Thomas, Torquator Tasso and Solemia.

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