Third Arc win for owner

Press, 7 October 1980, Page 44

Third Arc win for owner

NZPA-Reuter Paris Detroit gave the English pools millionaire, Mr Robert Sangster, his third victory in the Prix de I’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday, setting a record time for the one mile four furlong race. Detroit, ridden by the Irish jockey, Pat Eddery, surged through in the home straight to take fhe 1,200,000 franc ($NZ289,000) first prize by half a length from the French-trained . Argument. After a photo, the Englishtrained favourtie, Ela-Mana-Mou, was awarded third place ahead of the >1979 Arc winner, Three Troikas. “She’s the best filly I’ve ever ridden,” Eddery said of Detroit. “But I was worried coming out from the rails about finding a way through.”

Argument’s jockey, JeanClaud Desaint, said he thought he had the race won half a furlong from home. “But Detroit was just too strong.” Willie Carson said his mount, Ela-Mana-Mou, had a perfect race. “The only problem was that he only battles when he’s got other horses close to him, and today this just didn’t happen until too late.” Detroit, a daughter of Riverman and Dema, has now won five out of six races and looked an unlucky loser in her one unsuccessful outing. Boxed in on the rails on that occasion, she finished third to English filly, Mrs Penny, in the Prix Vermeille.

She handsomely wiped .out that defeat on Sunday, when Mrs Penny was iamong . the 19 rivals she left behind.