Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe 2023: Tips, odds and runners

One of the biggest flat races worth over £2.5 million stars this weekend at Paris Longchamp for the 2023 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Only the very best horses can win this kind of a race and they can join esteemed company with past winners recently including Sea The Stars, Golden Horn and Enable.

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The going has only been declared as Good, once in the last six renewals, when Enable won in 2018, and could be once again if the dry weather continues over Paris - but Saturday's card was confirmed as Good to soft which plays into the hands of most runners.

While there's often a big favourite winning the Arc, like Sea The Stars at 4/6 in 2009, there's also been a fair few big priced winners too.

Those backing the outsiders might have done well in 2011 (20/1), 2012 (33/1), 2019 (131/10) and 2021 (80/1), as each-way betting really comes into play in this tough 1m4f contest and this year is no different.

Another fairly common sight seen at the Arc, is a filly or mare winning - there have been eight winners of this race since 2011 that were either a filly (female horse aged four and under) or a mare.

They include: Alpinista, Enable in both 2017 and 2018, Found, Treve in 2013 and 2014, Solemia and Danedream.

A common theme recently, yet between 1994 and 2010 all winners were male.

The UK or Ireland have been Arc victors in five of the last eight renewals with Germany also winning another for the international trainers.

Despite France's dominance from 1920 to arguably the millennium, French horses still often present a huge challenge - but they have even won five since 2012's winner Solemia.

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe odds

The favourite for the Arc this year is the around 3/1 shot Ace Impact, a three-year-old colt trained by Jean-Claude Rouget, who has not yet lost a race in his career.

Winning the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club in June at Chantilly and in August beating Al Riffa to the line in the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d'Ornano at Deauville, though takes on this distance of the Arc for the first time.

Hukum is close up though and could well be seen as a joint-favourite if backed in nearer the time but currently at 9/2 presents some risks - especially as a six-year-old has never won the Arc before.

Trainer Owen Burrows told Racing TV: "Jim (Crowley, jockey) isn’t too concerned about the draw [stall 14]. Look, if I had a choice then rather be in a bit but there isn’t a lot we can do about it. 

"He’s pretty versatile riding wise so it is what it is. I’ll leave it to Jim. 

"Hukum is in a good spot, very similar to where he was before Ascot. He’s there, the ground should be suitable so fingers crossed it will pan out."

Trainer Aidan O'Brien only sends out one horse here - Continuous, who had to be supplemented for the race at a huge cost of €120,000 (£104,000).

But Continuous was beaten by a wide margin in June by the favourite in the French Derby, though that seems to be behind him now having since won comfortably at both York and then at Doncaster, in the St Leger a month later.

Westover returns to this race after placing sixth last year but has put in some great efforts this season to suggest he's back - including placing a head second to Hukum at Ascot's Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Qipco Stakes.

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe runners and riders

  • Ace Impact - 12/5
  • Westover - 6/1
  • Hukum - 6/1
  • Fantastic Moon - 15/2
  • Continuous - 17/2
  • Through Seven Seas - 10/1
  • Feed The Flame - 11/1
  • Bay Bridge - 16/1
  • Free Wind - 16/1
  • Place Du Carrousel - 20/1
  • Simca Mille - 25/1
  • Onesto - 28/1
  • Mr Hollywood - 50/1
  • Haya Zark - 125/1
  • Sisfahan - 125/1

Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe tips

A good route to go down this year, in what seems to be an odd renewal, is bigger prices each-way in hopes of finding some place money with the slight chance of a nice payout should they finish first.

Ace Impact looks the obvious choice but at current prices doesn't appeal too much in what is such an open, competitive and often unpredictable race.

Sisfahan 125/1 each-way

Sisfahan is quite an interesting runner at a massive price, as this globetrotter is used to heading around the world for big races, from Del Mar in the US, to Hamburg in Germany, Meydan in Dubai, and even San Siro in Italy and potentially warrants small backing at this obscene price.

He finished just a length off Arc winners Torquator Tasso and Alpinista back in 2021 and has solid form at this distance on what will be favourable conditions.

The winning-most trainer of the Arc is Andre Fabre, who has just the one entry with Place Du Carrousel, who won in a tight finish here in the Prix de L'Opera Longines at 41/1 ahead of Nashwa and Above The Curve.

The four-year-old filly, by Lope De Vega, was stepped up to 1m4f for the first time just a couple of weeks ago and reversed the form with Iresine, the 1/2 favourite, to win by a neck.

However, this could be her first time on good ground and that presents a question mark on how she will handle the surface while also carrying extra, unlike her last two wins against males.

Through Seven Seas tipped at 16/1 each-way NOW 10/1

Japan have never won the Arc before, but they've certainly been announcing themselves on the big stage of racing in recent years, and this year might just be their time.

This horse has a very odd career for a five-year-old mare, racing consistently but between plenty of breaks, which is commendable to ensure she's fresh and ready for each race.

But she's really turned a corner this year winning in January and March at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan, before heading into the Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin.

Placing just a neck behind, albeit a comfortable winner Equinox, the unbeaten Japanese four-year-old colt who won the title of 2023 Longines World's Best Racehorse with a ranking of 129.

And that didn't tell the whole story either, as she was shut out from an initial route in that race, before finding more space to charge down the middle which easily could have cost her a length or two.

Equinox had Westover well beaten at Meydan's Sheema Classic in March and that form speaks volumes of Through Seven Seas' progression.

Japan have been close seconds on two occasions though, Nakayama Festa in 2010 and Orferve by a neck in dramatic fashion in 2012. Perhaps 2023 is their year?

All odds correct at time of writing

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