Overview
- Daryz won the Group 1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp on his first start of the year, quickening under Mickael Barzalona to finish clear of Bright Picture and Aventure.
- Bookmakers cut his odds for a repeat Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe win to about 5-1 after the performance, moving in from 10-1 before the race.
- Connections plan the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot as his next major goal, with the nine-and-a-half-furlong Prix Aga Khan IV cited as a likely prep run.
- Trainer Francis-Henri Graffard said the colt had a smooth winter and that the team managed his assertive nature by switching work riders and using racecourse gallops at Chantilly.
- Aga Khan Studs kept last year’s Arc hero in training at four, a notable choice that keeps a leading middle-distance horse in action when many retire after the Arc.