Trainer Takashi Saito hopes that he has absorbed the bitter lessons of his first failed tilt at the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe when he takes another shot at Europe's most prestigious race with Croix du Nord on Sunday.
Saito said he left Longchamp with "regrets" after Chrono Genesis was only seventh of the 14 runners in 2021.
Croix du Nord, Byzantine Dream and Alohi Alii provide a powerful three-pronged Japanese challenge for the prize Japan has dreamed of winning and fallen short of — sometimes heartbreakingly so — for over half a century.
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