Britain's Bluestocking Wins 103rd Paris Arc de Triomphe
Oct 10, 2024
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The Arc de Triomphe, which commemorated the Allied victory in World War I in 1920 and began to revive French horse racing, which had declined due to the effects of the war, has been held every year except during World War II. French people's love of horse racing is never second to neighboring countries Germany and the United Kingdom, such as racing without spectators in 2020 when COVID-19 was in full swing. The racehorse, which wins the Arc de Triomphe at the end of the European horse racing season, is also a prestigious competition that is usually selected as the representative horse of Europe that year.
This year's Arc de Triomphe was a fierce competition between representative horses from five countries (Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Japan, and France). Except for European countries such as Britain and France, Japan's horses especially received a lot of media attention. This is because Japan, a horse racing powerhouse in name and reality, has never produced a winning horse in the Arc de Triomphe.
In order to win the Arc de Triomphe, which is also a mountain that must be crossed to enter the European market, young entrepreneur and horse racing enthusiast Mazu Fujita Sumu dispatched a 'Shin Empire' purchased for a large amount of €2.1 million to Paris. Shin Emperor, who is also of the same lineage as the 2020 Arc de Triomphe winner 'Sotsass'. In addition, Fujita Mazu, who started his life face-to-face as the CEO of the parent company of Sai Games, famous for Umamusme, and said he would return the favor to 'horse racing', drew keen attention from horse racers around the world.
The history of the Japanese Jogyo-ma's challenge to the Arc de Triomphe is long. Since his first appearance in 1969 with 'Speed Simboli', 25 have competed so far, with a total of four outstanding second-place performances, but he has never lifted a trophy. In addition, there was no unexpected change in the 103rd Arc de Triomphe this year. 'Shin Emperre' entered the 12th stage, leaving a tragic story beyond regret.
Ireland's teacher Nathan O'Brien'Los Angeles'; France's Sosie'; Japan's legendary jockey Yutaka'Take's'Alifa' to become the winner of Longxiang Racecourse.
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On this day, Ralph Beckett, an assistant teacher, called 'Blues Talking' a racehorse like 'extraordinary beast' and said that it was thanks to everything going as planned from the start number draw. In the past seven races, Rosa Ryan with Blue Talking has found her rhythm right after she settled behind Los Angeles in the beginning, and as a result of doing her best to the end, she was able to win the championship.
The end of the Arc de Triomphe week will be concluded with the International Federation of Racing (IFHA) General Assembly', which will bring together members of the world's horse racing community, and the 59th IFHA General Assembly was held at Saint-Cloud Racecourse in Paris on Monday, October 7. This year's General Assembly, which discusses major issues related to horse racing and its release, discussed in-depth the implementation of fair horse racing and how to protect the fairness of horse racing by combining past examples and current technologies.
The winner of the Arc de Triomphe will be granted an automatic berth to the Breeders' Cup to be held in the U.S. this November. Attention is focusing on whether 'Blues Talking' will be able to play in the Breeders' Cup and perform well on the U.S. turf.
wman@sportschosun.com
