Whicker: Flavien Prat could be riding high during Breeders’ Cup

ARCADIA — So why would you leave France?
“This is paradise,” Flavien Prat said Friday morning at Santa Anita.
“Really paradise. The sun is out 300 days a year. When it rains, well, you’re glad because we need the rain. You have skiing an hour and a half away and the beach an hour away. It’s great.”
But when Prat goes to work at the starting gate, he leaves comfort behind.
Five years after a Prat-fall off a horse named Discreetlyhumor at Los Alamitos that