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Certainly franked the form

How many french horses will we see here next year I wonder 

I retract that comment. He is probably not going to be weighted out of it. He would get no more than what Americain had. He is unlikely to get anymore than 2.5 kgs more than Red Cadeaux.

If Americain is not entered he would get 58 kgs Red Cadeaux 55/55.5

BC3 buy top US stayer for Cups tilt
Clinton Payne
Thursday, 22 December 2011

BC3 Thoroughbreds have purchased the Grade I Hollywood Turf Cup winner Sanagas as the overseas revolution grows in the quest to win the Melbourne Cup.

Sanagas, like this year’s third placegetter in the Melbourne Cup Lucas Cranach, is German-bred and his win in the Hollywood Turf Cup (2400m) has fully qualified the horse for both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

"We are canvassing the world for the best stayers, and in Sanagas we certainly got what not only we believe, but in the opinion of many observers, the best stayer in North America,” BC3 Thoroughbreds CEO Bill Vlahos said.

"Unusual Suspect showed that a horse can come from America and compete in the Melbourne Cup. In fact, Americain campaigned in the United States. We have not seen many of them just because of the onerous quarantine requirements to import to Australia combined with the overlap of the Breeders’ Cup.

"Once he exits quarantine on June 3 in Sydney, it’s game on.”

No Australian trainer has been named to prepare the five-year-old when he arrives in Australia.

The 17 plus hand gelding has won seven of his 10 starts. Prior to winning the Hollywood Turf Cup on November 19, Sanagas broke the track record over 2600 metres in the Grade III Sycamore at Keeneland in October.

Sanagas will remain in the US for one more campaign before entering quarantine on April 23, with next start being the Grade II San Marcos Stakes (2000m) on February 11.

Prominent US owner-breeder David Bernsen has secured a minority stake as an owner in Sanagas and believes the horse is an "ideal Cups horse”.

"Not only is he is big, strong, sound and lightly raced but he possesses a high cruising speed and a devastating turn of foot,” Bernsen said.

"He is proven at staying distances over and over against top competition in both Europe and North America.

"He won his last German start carrying 64kg and then won his last American start – a Grade One race carrying 54.5kg – and right now he probably would drop a half-kilo or so off that if lining up in the Melbourne Cup.”

  Click here   to watch Sanagas's [yellow, black sleeves] win in the Hollywood Turf Cup.

Thanks Steve.

If you click on "click here" in the thread above you will see how a good horse should be ridden. Our couch potato jockeys could learn a thing or to by that ride. 

Really? I thought it was a terrible ride to be honest.

couldnt happen a few months ago hey....

Am I right in hearing, that race in Dubai, they ran the 1st mile in 1:47?

That is absolutely walking.

Don't get too excited about Sanagas, that's the same race Unusual Suspect won the year previous.
It's a very lowly rates American Group 1 race that hasn't been won by a name horse for 30 years.

Only as my judgement has been vindicated. I don't have a corporate account so I wasn't on

Is there a market out for this years cup. Fox Hunt is the best stayer in the world

couldnt have won in the spring could he...