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Arc Betting
The best bookie for Arc de Triomphe betting is
Bet365 (£200 free). The Arc is run at Longchamp racecourse in Paris, France, on the first Sunday in October. It is the richest and most important horse race in the European calendar. See the Arc betting odds below.
Arc de Triomphe betting from best bookies; Race run 3.15pm Sunday October 7, 2012:
Click on the odds for your selection to visit that bookie. Best Arc odds in bold:
| Bet365 | Betfred |
Stan James | BetVictor | Paddy Power | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SO YOU THINK | 5/1 | 9/2 |
5/1 | 9/2 | 5/1 |
| SARAFINA | 5/1 | 9/2 |
5/1 | 5/1 | 9/2 |
| GALIKOVA | 8/1 | 7/1 |
7/1 | 8/1 | 7/1 | WORKFORCE | 10/1 | 8/1 |
10/1 | 10/1 | 10/1 |
| HIRUNO D'AMOUR | 12/1 | 11/1 |
12/1 | 11/1 | 10/1 |
| RELIABLE MAN | 12/1 | 10/1 |
12/1 | 12/1 | 10/1 |
| MEANDRE | 14/1 | 12/1 |
12/1 | 12/1 | 12/1 |
| SNOW FAIRY | 14/1 | 12/1 |
14/1 | 14/1 | 14/1 |
| MASKED MARVEL | 16/1 | 12/1 |
16/1 | 16/1 | 14/1 |
| DANEDREAM | 25/1 | 14/1 |
25/1 | 25/1 | 20/1 |
| TREASURE BEACH | 33/1 | 28/1 |
33/1 | 33/1 | 25/1 |
| ST NICHOLAS ABBEY | 33/1 | 28/1 |
33/1 | 33/1 | 33/1 |
| NAKAYAMA FESTA | 33/1 | 25/1 |
33/1 | 33/1 | 28/1 |
| TESTOSTERONE | 100/1 | 40/1 |
66/1 | 100/1 | 100/1 |
| SHARETA | 100/1 | 66/1 |
100/1 | 80/1 | 66/1 |
| SILVER POND | 200/1 | 100/1 |
150/1 | 150/1 | 100/1 |
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All Longchamp entrants are quoted in the Arc Betting odds above Each-way bet place terms: 1/4 odds 1-2-3. Except Bet365 & Victor Chandler who are more generous at 1/3 odds 1,2,3. Arc free bets: Bet365 gives £200 free. 100% bonus on first deposit. |
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The Arc betting trends
Arc betting is always competitive and the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe represents the culmination of the flat horse racing season and the final opportunity to make good money betting on the top talents that have emerged during the season.
The Arc is held on a Sunday in early October at Longchamp, Paris, over a mile and four furlongs. It is the world's second richest flat race held on turf with only the Japan Cup proffering a larger prize fund. The Arc weekend meeting includes seven Group 1 contests and four Group 2s. It attracts plenty of top quality UK and Irish horses and provides a number of opportunities to make money betting on horses you already know well even without the Arc.
The Arc is open to three year olds and older horses. There is no penalty for previous wins but horses over the age of three have to carry extra weight. There is a three pound concession for fillies and mares. It is definitely worth looking carefully at the weights before betting on the Arc. In the past they appear to have had a significant impact on the results.
Are there any tips for betting on the Arc?
Age is undeniably important thanks to the weight penalties for maturity. Three year olds have by far the best Arc record with the vast majority of winners benefiting from carrying just the base weight. Since the 1990s over seventy percent of the winners have been three year olds. In 2009 Sea The Stars was a three-year-old. In 2010 Workforce won as a three-year-old and again in 2011 Danedream did it for that age group. Occasionally a four year old will prevail and, once in a blue moon, a five year old but, if you are looking at betting in the Arc, it pays to be ageist if you want to pick the winner.
There are consequently very few repeat winners. You have to go back to the seventies to find one. The Vincent O’Brien trained Alleged managed to achieve consecutive victories in the Arc under Lester Piggott but the lure of stud fees today means that relatively few horses are even entered in the Arc more than once.
The same rule on age may not apply if you are looking for place money in the Arc betting. There should be a statue of the Mick Channon trained Youmzain at Longchamp if there were recognition for consistent, non winning performances in the Arc. Youmzain managed to get second in the Arc in three consecutive years and often delivered much better returns for place and each-way punters in the Arc betting than those received by punters picking the winner.
Is it worth betting on the favourite in the Arc?
Yes, since the turn of the century short priced favourites in the Arc seem to have achieved their status in the betting for good reason. Only one favourite starting at odds of less than 2/1 has failed, the Peter Chapple-Hyam trained colt, Authorized. He started the 11/10 favourite in the Arc betting in 2007. He came into the race with impressive credentials, a Derby win, a second in the Coral Eclipse and a victory in the Juddmonte, but finished well back in the field. The Aiden O’Brien trained four year old, Dylan Thomas 11/2, won the race, beating 66/1 shot, Youmzain, by a head.
2007 was one of the few years where the Arc betting market got it wrong for no immediately apparent reason. The third and fourth horses, Sagara and Getaway, started at 33/1 and 50/1 respectively. The second favourite at 100/30, O'Brien's Soldier of Fortune, could only manage fifth.
It was business as usual in the Arc betting market in subsequent years. The 2008 race rewarded favourite followers. The quirky, Royer-Dupre trained filly Zarkava triumphed at odds of 13/8 in the Arc betting, beating Youmzain, a 12/1 chance, by two lengths. Zarhava was carrying just 8 stone 8 whilst Youmzain, then a five year old, was shouldering an additional eleven pounds.
The John 0xx trained Sea the Stars started the 4/6 favourite in the 2009 Arc betting, partnered by the veteran jockey, Mick Kinane. The outstanding colt had not only won the 2009 Derby but followed up with impressive victories in the Coral Eclipse, the Juddmonte and the Champion Stakes.
Sea the Stars was following in the footsteps of his dam, Urban Sea, at Longchamp. She triumphed in 1993 as a four year old at significantly longer odds of 37/1 in the Arc betting. The heavy going seemed to make a mockery of the betting market in the Arc that year with a 54/1 shot taking second.
Oppose an Arc favourite that is offered at odds longer than 2/1 in the betting.
The favourites don't always have it all their own way in the Arc, especially if they are offered at odds of over 2/1. In 2006 the 9-4 favourite in the Arc betting, the Japanese horse Deep Impact, was beaten into third by Rail Link, the Andre Fabre trained three year old who started at odds of 8-1 and Pride, a Royer-Dupre trained six year old. Not only was Deep Impact beaten by two horses at much longer odds, but he was subsequently disqualified as a banned substance was found in a sample taken after the race.
Another favourite starting at over 2/1 got beaten in the 2005 race too. The 5/2 favourite in the Arc betting that year was the Michael Bell trained colt, Motivator. Hurricane Run, another Andre Fabre trained three old and 11/4 shot in the Arc betting took home the spoils. In 2011 Sarafina and So You Think were vying for favouritism and both bombed behind the unfancied German filly Danedream.
Bookmakers in the UK can usually count on Arc betting to provide a welcome fillip to a lull in activity in October. If a UK based horse is among the favourites, ante-post Arc betting can attract fairly respectable volumes. Flat racing enthusiasts have plenty of time, perhaps too much, to make their Arc betting selections, deprived of premier league horse racing action after the final UK classic, the St Leger, in September.
Yes, there is always the Breeders Cup later in the year but, whatever the prize money and volume of international talent attracted to it, American dirt simply cannot compete with the stunning spectacle presented on the lush, green turf of Longchamp. The limited scale of UK television coverage and inconvenience of time zone differences for Breeders' Cup action also does little to increase the interest of the majority of UK based punters who may have enjoyed betting on the Arc.
Ironically, the French seem to have stolen the finale to UK flat racing season. The message to anyone who enjoys Arc betting is it's your last chance of the season to profit from top class flat racing.
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