SUPERB though Enable’s victory was in the main event, the performance of Arc Day on the clock – the performance of the season, indeed – came from Battaash in the Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp.

The Charlie Hills-trained gelding already had the best Timeform timefigure (130) in Ireland and Britain this year from his performance to beat Profitable and Marsha in the King George Stakes at Goodwood, and he accounted for that pair even more handsomely in a time of just 57.59s here.