JC / Railbird - “Where did that son of a bitch come from?”

“Where did that son of a bitch come from?”

Excuse the profanity — Gary Stevens was feeling shocked after the 1993 Breeders’ Cup Classic. The rider had been on favored Bertrando, in front from the start and seemingly on his way to a win mid-stretch, when the unknown European longshot Arcangues — an anxious horse with a bad back and funny name — passed them on the outside, scoring the biggest upset in BC history. Arcangues paid $269 to win, and jockey Jerry Bailey — introduced to the horse only in the paddock — had a reason to learn (some) French:

It was revealed on Wednesday that Arcangues was euthanized in Japan, where he stood stud from 1995, due to complications from founder in October 2006.

Posted by JC in Racing on 03/19/2009 @ 9:06 am / Tagged Arcangues, Breeders' Cup / Follow @railbird on Twitter

3 Comments

This was a fun race to watch again after all these years … I was at Woodbine that day with a new track friend who stuck $2 WPS on the longest shot on the board at least four times on the card. By the time the Classic rolled around, he had given up that strategy. He still talks about it to this day!

Cheers

Keith

Posted by Keith - Triple Dead Heat on March 19, 2009 @ 4:50 pm

I can’t blame him for still talking about that race. If only he’d stuck to his strategy — that’s the kind of win he could have boasted about for the rest of his life.

Posted by Jessica on March 19, 2009 @ 5:53 pm

Am I the only one who wonders why it took over two years to find this out? They could have written the news on a piece of paper, put it in a bottle and thrown it in the Pacific Ocean and it would have found its way stateside quicker.

Posted by Joe Nevills on March 21, 2009 @ 12:28 pm

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