All Systems Go For Treve

Al Shaqab Racing’s Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}) is on track for the Sept. 14 G1 Prix Vermeille at Longchamp as trainer Criquette Head-Maarek builds towards her defense of her crown in the Oct. 5 G1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Not seen since finishing third in the G1 Prince of Wales’s S. at Royal Ascot June 18, the winner of the Vermeille and the G1 Prix de Diane and Arc in 2013 pleased connections in a spin on the piste des Aigles at Chantilly yesterday morning. 

“We’re going to run her next week and she will need the race, it will do her good,” Head-Maarek told the Racing Post. “In principle, she will run in the Vermeille–she is in the Prix Foy but we’ll go for the Vermeille. She will have a proper trial, because it is a Group 1 but I don’t want her to be knocked about. We will go through it as a trial for the Arc like last year, when Frankie [Dettori] saved her and didn’t give her a hard race. If the Vermeille was the end for her, that’s different but it’s just a necessary step.” 

Treve was found to have a back injury after the Royal meeting and her conditioner shed more light on the situation yesterday. 

“The problem is cleared up as far as we can tell and she went well this morning,” she continued. “For me, the important thing is her feet because although she had a problem with her back it all comes from her feet. She has a good action and is walking well after the work.”