Leading fancy Arc Bleu to miss Ebor

LEADING fancy Arc Bleu will not line up in next week’s totesport Ebor at York, with connections electing to give him a break following his Galway Festival exertions.

Having got up on the line to beat Halla San in the Northumberland Plate on his penultimate start, Tony Martin’s seven-year-old ran a fine race in defeat when third in the G.P.T Galway Handicap.

Martin believes the one mile six furlong trip of York’s big handicap may be on the short side for his charge and thinks there are better options for him in the autumn.