Eric Libaud is unconcerned about the change of surface for Vision D'Etat as the Royal Ascot winner prepares to encounter Tapeta for the first time in Saturday's $10m Dubai World Cup.
The French raider is the 9-2 favourite with Coral to confirm his Prince Of Wales's Stakes win over Twice Over and follow up his Hong Kong Cup triumph in December. However, both of those victories came on turf and the five-year-old will be racing on Michael Dickinson's all-weather surface for the first time this weekend.
"I have no concerns over the change of surface," said Libaud. "It is not a surface which is foreign, it is soft enough and the European horses did well during the Carnival. The horse travelled here very well. He likes to travel and does so very easily."
Although down the field in the Prix de l'Arc d'Triomphe over a mile and a half, he appreciated the drop back in distance to this weekend's trip of a mile and a quarter in Hong Kong, where he beat Collection by three-quarters of a length.
Libaud added: "The horse did his final piece of work in France last Thursday and I think he is as well as before Hong Kong. In fact he may have even put on weight."
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