THE Arc ride by Frankie Dettori on Golden Horn divided opinion. Most sided with the ‘inspired’ bit of riding after he had raced wide, even wider than his draw, for the first two furlongs and gradually moved across to slot in near the front of the field. A few however, pondered what all the fuss was about.

On reflection, all comments and judgements should be made with ‘after the fact’ knowledge. Dettori’s decision was made before the race, at the time when we, and Treve’s connections, still thought she was invincible.

He could not have known that Treve’s pacemaker would set a slow pace, that she would not be waiting to pounce or indeed if Golden Horn would prove trackable out wide of the field.

Compare the Dettori’s ride from stall 14 with the route plotted by Ryan Moore on Found from one stall wider in 15.

It was not a good day for the recently returned jockey. Despite Ballydoyle’s early win, he met interference on the two-year-old Johannes Vermeer, got no run from Diamondsandrubies in the Opera, had no chance on British banker Limato, being too far back from the turn in the Foret - do we blame the horse or the jockey? And he finished up with a disappointing run on Clondaw Warrior in the Cadran.

In the Arc, Moore took the more obvious option and switched his mount across, deciding to drop in at the back of the field. From there, you have to either hope to get through on the inside or go wide up the straight. Remember Harp Star and Yuga Kawada trying to circle a field of top class horses up the straight from stall 12 last year?

Once the pace was slow, Moore was in trouble and he found (excuse the pun) plenty through the race.

It should be noted Found was only a length behind a wayward Golden Horn at Leopardstown even if Golden Horn might have been suited by better ground at Longchamp. Dettori deserves the praise for making a decision that might not have worked out so well. If one jockey gets praise, another one usually gets the stick and this time it was Thierry Jarnet for keeping Treve too far back on a slow pace.

How quickly the tide turns. A year ago Dettori didn’t suit Treve, it was Jarnet who had the touch. Now one defeat later, with valid reasons, and Jarnet gets the blame.

Timefigures suggest Treve was given a lot to do, but again look at the facts as they happened. Stop the action turning into the straight and no one would have thought anything was amiss. She sweated, she pulled, but she’d done that before.

She was only six lengths off Golden Horn and looked ready for the now familiar sprint to the front.

On a line through Flintshire she clearly under-performed. Watch the 2013 Arc to the half way point and there was no difference in where Jarnet had placed Treve.

He was simply the easy fall guy this time.