Cirrus Des Aigles gets the better of Treve in last year’s Prix Ganay
PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)
Minor setback rules Cirrus out of Treve clash
CIRRUS DES AIGLES will miss his intended blockbuster showdown with dual Arc heroine Treve in this month’s Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud after suffering a minor setback.
Trainer Corine Barande-Barbe announced the news through the popular nine-year-old’s Facebook page, citing “a bruised fetlock which is not serious but means no work”.
The post continued: “We will slow down for three weeks and must miss the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.”
On their only previous meeting Cirrus Des Aigles outpointed Trevein an absorbing Prix Ganay last April.
Cirrus Des Aigles collected a third Ganay at the start of this season but was unable to give his true running in the Prix d’Ispahan last month when one of his shoes broke in two soon after the start.
The seven-time Group 1 winner also holds entries for the Prince of Wales’s Stakes and the Coral-Eclipse but Barande-Barbe had strongly hinted the Grand Prix – the only middle distance Group 1 in France open to geldings which Cirrus Des Aigles is yet to win – and a meeting with Treve on June 28, was her preferred option.
