On the gallops with Enable as superstar steps up bid for historic Arc hat-trick
Newmarket correspondent David Milnes with the first of a five-part series

At approximately 9.23am on Wednesday, superstar Enable embarked on another significant step en route to a bid for a historic third Arc.
The world's highest-rated horse was in familiar territory as the mile-long Al Bahathri Polytrack facility had been the venue for much of her preparation before her tenth Group 1 win in the Yorkshire Oaks.
The five-year-old was undertaking the first of likely five pieces of work before her return to Longchamp on October 6 and had Frankie Dettori in the saddle for her exercise with 100-rated lead horse Crossed Baton (Gary Forster).
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