Sagacious

see also: Etymology of Sagacious

Sagace was a racehorse English Pur-sang born in the United States in 1980. It was wire of Luthier and Seneca , by Chaparral .

Raised by its owner Daniel Wildenstein, involved by Patrick Biancone and assembled by Yves Saint Martin's day or Eric Legrix, Sagace had a career atypical and opposed by fragile legs. After having begun at the beginning of its 3 years year, a wound prevents it from taking by with the traditional tests spring. It returns on the tracks during the summer, in Deauville, but disputes its first race of group only in the Prix Niel in September, where it is essential easily. It is with this thin prize list that it presents at the beginning Prix of the Triumphal arch, where, experiment lack, it is not shown dangerous. On the other hand, it gains the Prix of the Council of Paris at the end of the season.

Its prize list, Sagace really starts to build it at 4 years, per hour when many traditional foalta already entered to the stud farm. Wounded once again at the time of its re-entry (2nd of the Price Ganay), it returns five months later to gain the Prix Foy, before trying once again its chance in a Arc very raised, in spite of the absence of the Derby winners (Darshaan, El Gran Señor and Secreto ), already withdrawn from the competition, and Teenoso, gaining King George. At the beginning, are well there the champions All Along, Northern Trick , Time Charter and but also Australian the Strawberry Road , Sadler' S Wells and Rainbow Quest. Favorite of the test, Sagacious , under assembles Yves Saint Martin's day carries it brilliantly. At the end of its 4 years year, and its wounds, it is still a very new horse.

Decision is thus made to leave it with the drive to try one doubled in the Arc, and to thus succeed Alleged. Year 1985 proceeds without encumbers, even if short Sagace little: three races, for as many victories in the Price Ganay, of Ispahan and Foy. It is ready for its go with the legend, but, when the competitors enter in track, nobody knows that the arrival of this Arc will be discussed history. As envisaged, Sagace passes the post at the head, but at the conclusion of a severe fight with the English Rainbow Quest, while the remainder of the group is clearly beaten. However, the entourage of the champion hesitates to be delighted. In fact, Sagace poured a little on the left during the final stage, as it had already done at the time of its first race, an annoying practice. Did it obstruct its adversary at the point to prevent it from overcoming? Would this one have been in measurement, without incident, to precede it? Difficult to say. But at the conclusion of an interminable investigation, the police chiefs of race announce with Longchamp which retains its breath that Sagace is retrogressed, and Rainbow Quest is declared victorious on the green carpet This decision will make run much ink.

Credited by Timeform with a Rating with 135, Sagace completes its career thus. Withdrawn in the stud farm of Farm Peace pipe, in the Kentucky, it dies there prematurely, in 1989, after having generated very few products. Among them, there were good the Saganeca (Prix of Royallieu, 2nd of the Grand Prix of Milan, 5th of the Arc), future mother of the Arc - winner Sagamix (by Linamix), as Africa Bleu Azure (mother of the champion Cape Made green ), and especially the brother of this one, Arcangues , prize winner of a Prix of Ispahan and which became in 1993 the first (and only to date) European horse to be essential in the Breeders' Cup Classic, where it had left to a surrealist dimension of outsider (133/1).

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