2022 Arc bid possible for Alpinista after Torquator Tasso gives major form boost

Sir Mark Prescott trains the only horse to have beaten Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero Torquator Tasso in top-level company this year and hopes his stable star Alpinista could be an Arc contender in 2022, with owner-breeder Kirsten Rausing set to keep her in training.

Connections mulled the idea of supplementing the dual Group 1 winner for the Longchamp highlight at a cost of €120,000 last week but opted to stick to their original plan, with the Grosser Preis von Bayern earmarked as a final aim for the year at Munich on November 7.

Alpinista gained a first win at the highest level when beating Torquator Tasso by two and three-quarter lengths in the Grosser Preis von Berlin at Hoppegarten in August, with the third Walton Street since winning the Canadian International – form that Prescott admits has worked out "infinitely hotter" than he expected.