Enable favored to beat males in Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

Enable, a winner of four consecutive Group 1 races in England and Ireland since early June, will be an odds-on favorite to win Europe’s most prestigious race, the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, at Chantilly, France, on Sunday.

If Enable prevails against as many as 17 rivals, she will be the first 3-year-old filly to win the Arc since Treve in 2013 and the seventh female to win the race in the last 10 runnings.

Enable was supplemented to the Arc for approximately $141,000 this week.

Trained by John Gosden for Juddmonte Farms, Enable is proven at the Arc distance of 1 1/2 miles. She beat older males in the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at 1 1/2 miles at Ascot in July. Ulysses, fourth in the 2016 Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita, was second in the King George and is a leading contender for the Arc, which has a purse of approximately $5.89 million.

Trainer Aidan O’Brien has five of the 18 entrants, including the 3-year-old filly Winter, who will be ridden by top jockey Ryan Moore. Winter won four consecutive Group 1 races in England and Ireland this year before finishing second by a head to stablemate Hydrangea in the Group 1 Matron Stakes at Leopardstown in Ireland on Sept. 9.

Winter will start at 1 1/2 miles for the first time in the Arc.

Chantilly hosts five group stakes races on Saturday, including the Group 1 Prix du Cadran at 2 9/16 miles. Vazirabad, a 10-time group stakes winner, will be an odds-on favorite in the $353,670 race that includes Big Orange, the winner of the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup in June.

Listen In, by 2009 Arc winner Sea The Stars, will be favored to win her first group stakes in the Group 2 Prix de Royallieu for fillies and mares at 1 1/2 miles. The field for the $294,725 races includes 2016 race winner The Juliet Rose.

Taareef, a Kentucky-bred by Kitten’s Joy, leads the Group 2 Prix Daniel Wildenstein at a mile. Taareef, who is expected to be an odds-on favorite, was second in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp on Sept. 10.

Robin of Navan, fourth in the Prix du Moulin, heads the Group 2 Prix Dollar at 1 1/4 miles. First Sitting, who has won two stakes in his last three starts at Goodwood in England and Deauville in France, will start in a Group 2 race for the first time in the Prix Dollar, which is worth $235,780.

Darbuzan, a winner of four of five starts and three consecutive races, will have his first start in a Group 2 in the $235,780 Prix de Chaudenay for 3-year-olds at 1 7/8 miles on turf. Darbuzan’s winning streak includes stakes at Saint-Cloud and Deauville. Call to Mind, owned by Queen Elizabeth, can be a factor against Darbuzan after a minor stakes win at Goodwood on Aug. 26.