THE general reaction when Ulysses drew stall one and Enable drew stall two for tomorrow’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe was that the low draws were positives for the market leaders. That may not be the case.

A high draw has historically been a significant negative in the Arc at Longchamp, but the effect of the draw at Longchamp obviously has no relevance to any potential draw bias in this year’s Arc, run, as it will be, at Chantilly.