Enable (GB)

Enable closed her 3-year-old season with six straight wins that included the English and Irish Oaks and the 2017 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

After her European Horse of the Year campaign in 2017, Enable was sidelined for a few months after she was found in May to have some fluid on a knee. She did not return to the races until winning a Group 3 race on the synthetic surface at Kempton Park in September. That 3 ½-length victory set her up for a repeat bid in the Arc on Oct. 7 at Longchamp, where she held off fast-closing Sea of Class to win by a neck.

Enable became only the seventh horse to repeat in the Arc and the eighth to win Europe’s de facto weight-for-age championship twice.

After her repeat win in Europe’s most prestigious race, Juddmonte Farms sent Enable to the U.S. in an attempt to become the first horse to win the Arc and a Breeders’ Cup race in the same calendar year. Sent off as the heavy favorite in the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf, Enable delivered, fanning into the middle of the stretch and battling with Coolmore-owned Magical before edging ahead and winning by three-quarters of a length.

Enable is by leading French sire Nathaniel, a son of leading European sire Galileo who was a Group 1 winner at 1 ½ miles as a 3-year-old and won a Group 1 race at 1 ¼ miles at four. Nathaniel has sired six group/graded stakes winners from his three crops age two and older, led by Enable.

Stakes winner Concentric, by breed-shaping sire Sadler’s Wells, is the dam (mother) of Enable. Concentric is one of four stakes winners produced by Group 3 winner Apogee, by Shirley Heights. Concentric’s full-sibling (same sire, same dam) is multiple group stakes winner Dance Routine, runner-up in the 2002 French Oaks and the dam of 2016 U.S. champion turf male Flintshire.