Brilliant Boudot on cloud nine following six weekend winners

If Pierre-Charles Boudot had been worried at the end of Saturday that a four-timer might be as good as his weekend would get, he needn't have been.

A first victory in the Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was followed later on Sunday by a repeat success in the Foret with 2018 winner One Master.

Speaking after collecting the trophy for the Foret, Boudot reflected on his dramatic late swoop on Waldgeist to ruin the dream of Enable's connections of a third Arc.

"When I passed the post on Waldgeist I was on a cloud and now with the success of One Master I can begin to let what happened in the Arc sink in," said the 26-year-old.

"Put simply, it is the race that every jockey dreams of winning and it's why you get up in the mornings, in the hope that you can swing your leg over a horse capable of winning on these big days. To win six across the weekend is fabulous – but the Arc is a race apart."

Boudot has risen fast through the ranks of French jockeys, having won his first Group 1 on Gallante in the 2014 Grand Prix de Paris.

In 2016 he broke the European record for winners with 300 domestic successes in France, bringing a second Cravache d'Or, having tied with Christophe Soumillon the year before.

Waldgeist has been a constant for Boudot since landing the Criterium de Saint-Cloud as a two-year-old and in 2016, having been touched off in the French Derby the following June, the pair have gone on to win the 2018 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and the Prix Ganay this April.

Boudot never lacks for confidence in the saddle but he admitted it was the feel that Waldgeist had given him in recent work that counted more than his own run of form on Saturday.

"He is better than ever this year," said Boudot. "Last year he won the Prix Foy very well – maybe too well – and may not have been quite so good in the Arc. This year we've reversed that trend. The horse really improved after his run in the Foy and he was in great form today.

"Frankie congratulated me after the race and I have a lot of admiration and respect for him and what he has achieved in his career.

"Unfortunately, for him and for Enable, they ran into a Waldgeist at the peak of his powers."

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