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Why breed anywhere else? pabred.com #PABred A publication of The Jockey Club Information Systems, Inc. and TOBA Media Properties, Inc. ON THE COVER Editorial Director General Manager Sottsass surges to victory in the Evan Hammonds Scott Carling Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at ParisLongchamp Visuals Director Managing Editor Anne M. Eberhardt Claire Crosby Bloodstock Editor Digital Designer Eric Mitchell Erin Morgan Assistant Editors Senior Web Producer Meredith Daugherty Christine Wittmer Molly Rollins Digital Content Coordinator Associate Editors Michelle Benson Byron King Copy Editor Mark Sonka Christine Oser Regional Sales Managers Features Editor Shirley Dievert Frank Angst Kristi Heasley Sales Editor Ellen Lambertus Ron Mitchell Amanda Ramey Senior Correspondent Classified Sales Bob Ehalt Catherine Johnston Senior Columnist Director of Technology Jay Hovdey Courtney Bearse Senior Bloodstock Columnist Pedigree Analyst Bill Oppenheim Alan Porter Contact Us: Editor: [email protected] • Advertising: [email protected] PHOTOGRAPHY KEENELAND/COADY The field breaks from the gate in the Spinster Stakes at Keeneland BLOODHORSE DAILY MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020 PAGE 3 OF 47 PRESENTED BY RACING POST SOTTSASS SAILS HOME the ParisLongchamp IN ARC stewards made the By Scott Burton/Racing Post winning connections sweat for 10 minutes ean-Claude Rouget called before confirming the Jit right at every stage as he result. and Cristian Demuro celebrated For Enable's a maiden win in the Qatar Prix supporters, there were de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) with few moments of hope Sottsass, who upgraded his third during an attritional place from 12 months ago in a Arc that was run in brave defeat of In Swoop and Per- the slowest time since sian King. Ivanjica's win in 1976. Demuro revealed afterward that That is of no POST WHITAKER/RACING EDWARD it was Rouget who had persuaded importance to the Sottsass is led into the winner’s enclosure him to choose White Birch Farm's winning connections been easy with the changes to the Sottsass over stablemate Raabihah, as the 67-year-old Rouget executed calendar. while the 67-year-old was also fully a plan whose genesis came in the "We've never been able to do vindicated in plotting a season that Longchamp unsaddling closure 12 quite what we wanted with the had featured just one success in months ago. horse. But these last few days, I've four starts leading into this. "We've worked all year for really felt he was in top form." At the end of a week that this," said Rouget. "Our entire featured so many twists and turns, aim for 2020 was this, and it's not (continued on page 6) EDWARD WHITAKER/RACING POST WHITAKER/RACING EDWARD Sottsass leads the field home to win the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at ParisLongchamp BLOODHORSE DAILY MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020 PAGE 4 OF 47 PRESENTED BY RACING POST SOTTSASS SAILS HOME IN ARC (continued from page 4) Those few who were on hand to witness Sottsass's staying-on fourth in the Irish Champion Stakes (G1) at Leopardstown last month may not have immediately felt that they had witnessed a likely Arc winner, but Rouget was adamant that running against top-class mile-and-a-quarter horses of the caliber of Magical and Ghaiyyath had put the necessary speed into his charge ahead of the day that mattered most. "It was a difficult choice to go to Leopardstown rather than the Qatar Prix Foy (G1), but we decided that the shorter distance would sharpen him up and it was the right PHOTOGRAPHY ZUZANNA LUPA choice. Everything was designed to have him at Sottsass returns to his jubilant connections after the race 100% today and the result is there." were not going that fast, I felt confident he could For Demuro, the emotions will undoubtedly come outsprint them in the straight. It was a big help and I tumbling out in the hours to follow as he had scaled knew his turn of foot would kill off the others." the greatest height afforded to Rouget had not hidden his a European jockey less than a own feelings in the days before month after the death of his father, the Arc that the son of Siyouni Giovanni Battista. Our entire aim for 2020 was peaking at the right time and "I just want to live this moment was this, and it’s not been his sentiments were enough to and tomorrow when I wake up I will persuade his stable jockey to side think more clearly about it," he said easy with the changes to the with Sottsass over Raabihah. on stepping down from the victory calendar. We’ve never been "Before the Irish Champion rostrum. able to do quite what we Stakes, I expected to ride "I lost my father not even a Raabihah," said Demuro. "Sottsass month ago, and so this is a good wanted with the horse. But didn't feel like the same horse as present for him. I hope he is looking these last few days, I’ve really last year. He didn't have the same down on me." appetite or the same fitness. Demuro had geared his pre-race felt he was in top form.” "But shortly after the race in plans around pinning a target on —JEAN-CLAUDE ROUGET Ireland, Monsieur Rouget told Frankie Dettori's back, but once me he felt the horse was coming he found Enable behind him, his back. I told him if he was sure confidence in Sottsass swelled. then I trusted him and I'd ride Sottsass. "I think it was won at the start," said Demuro. "I saw Enable wasn't leading and when I realized we (continued on page 7) BLOODHORSE DAILY MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020 PAGE 6 OF 47 PRESENTED BY RACING POST SOTTSASS SAILS HOME IN ARC As with everything else, he called it right when (continued from page 6) asked how he felt about being the man to deny Enable her rendezvous with history. "I like John Gosden a lot," said Rouget. "We don't "The race in Ireland really helped him because meet enough to be real friends because he has his job he hadn't been made to run at that pace all year in and this year I couldn't go to England and he couldn't France. He really needed it and then when I worked come to France. He is a great great trainer, and Enable on him, I could feel he was back." is a super filly. Rouget has long admitted that the Arc has been a "I hoped that if I had to be beaten, it would be by puzzle that he found almost impossible to work out, a her, but there can only be one winner. I didn't cost her feeling he expressed again in the moments after this though as she wasn't second." pulsating victory. There will be form students who pick over the He also revealed that the absence of the Aidan bones of this Arc and point to the slow time, the lack O'Brien-trained quartet had clarified his mind in terms of pace, and the deep ground all casting doubt on the of how the race would unfold. outcome. Rouget said: "I was not surprised to see Persian King But for absent owner Peter Brant, it is the in front because that was the best way to avoid him realization of a dream dating to being present to pulling.