"She's in good form and came screaming into season the day after York, although I'm not making excuses ... I'm pointing her at the Arc and it's an open race this year with the Prix Diane winner [the still undefeated Avenir Certain] looking very nice and the Japanese horse [Just A Way, currently highest rated horse in training] exciting ... She's in her last two-week build-up and just needs to come through her work ... She did very well after York and put on weight. I need to get it off now, so she'll have a couple of pieces of work and, maybe, a racecourse gallop ... She handles any ground around good - not very soft and certainly not like a road ... She's not overraced and I think being a three-year-old filly is a big factor, although Just A Way could be exceptional if he stays."
- Trainer John Gosden (right) on his super filly, Taghrooda, as she continues her preperations for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday 5 October 2014.
Photo: Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images for Ascot Racecourse
Taghrooda, John Gosden and regular jockey Paul Hanagan after victory over the colts - same age and older - in King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, July 2014