I truly believe this race gave Sierra Leone confidence....This high priced colt had high expectations from the start....Who provides confidence to such a wonderful expensive horse? The trainer...... Perfect confirmation, good bloodlines.... Bravo....
Prat got him going into the turn like Beholder a few years back. This is critical because of the short stretch at Del Mar and Sierra Leone always came up short with longer stretches. Great ride by Flavien and training job to fix his lugging in issues.
They tried it in the Travers but was a little late and Prat had to go inside. This time he stayed outside and that's all she wrote. Funny how I listened to Siegel, the morning line odds maker propped up COT and Next up so much. I'm not sure if he was giving "fake news" but he was so wrong on all of the lines this weekend, especially in this race.
Wow what a brilliant ride by Flavian Prat. 2nd to last out of the gate and he just picked off horses one by one. By midway on the far turn, his engine was in full rev mode. Fierceness was game, but not his day. Way to go Sierra Leone!
Both jockey & horse had a good chemistry in the back stretch : Sierra Leon ran as if he knew he had something to prove on previous defeats: showed so much pluck& determination for a well deserved vindication.
This is the best he's trained 😂 I can't believe he was saying that ? Here's a trainer who's had 400 G1 winner's, Galileo, Giant's Causeway, High Chaparral, Hawk Wing, George Washington, Dylan Thomas, Excelebration, Fame and Glory, So You Think, Australia to name a few.
The fact that Fierceness held on for second tells you how good he is. Just a nuclear pace. The 12 on the outside bothered him. With him you have to let him do his own thing. Forever young was closer than I expected. I think it hurt him today.
Sierra Leone, like his sire Gun Runner, has that low head carriage. Gun Runners usually get better as they age. Let's hope both Sierra Leone and Fierceness come back as 4 year olds Earlier this year I thought this was an average crop of 3 year olds. Sierra Leone , Fierceness and Forever Young have developed into top quality racehorses with the speed figures to back it up.
When I heard that City of Troy was running in the Classic my first thought was Why? Why not the Turf Classic, this horse has never run on anything but turf. I just don't that one of the biggest races of the year is when you should take that kind of risk on finding out if your horse preforms on a different surface.
Since Sierra Leone debuted, I saw in him an excellent thoroughbred, with a very strong run, but the only defect was that he charged inwards entering the final stretch. Finally Chad Brown managed to solve it with a bigger bite and here he ran straight and convinced Now I am sure that if they take him to the United Arab Emirates, he will win the Saudi Cup or the Dubai Cup, for sure.
Agree, Sierra Leone, won the Classic but what other race? The. Bluegrass? Anna drilled him in the Travers, and wins if you switch post position with Fierceness..
@@chrisp.9172 Well there's a million ways to lose a race and only two ways to win. Could've would've should've isn't listed in the history of the race. Best wishes, be well🏇
@@elizabethferguson7002 First of all, I was agreeing with you that Anna should win HOY, plus I was talking about the fact that she beat Sierra Leone in the Travers, woulda, shoulda, coulda had nothing to do with it. I WAS AGREEING WITH YOU..
@@chrisp.9172 I wasn't arguing with you. I "liked"👍 your comment. We're all good right? Go Thorpedo Anna. Crazy these 3year olds are the last crop of Fast Anna's foals. He was a consistent stallion. And now sire of Eclipse Award winner and possibly a future Hall of Famer👍🎉❤️
23:43, 43:96, 1:09 if the betting public had any idea this was going to happen he would be the favorite he was the right horse Respect to Fierceness he hang in there he will get him in the Pegasus in January
Coolmore, with all your resources, build a dirt track and run your best breeders cup classic chances on it..stop guessing and leaving Aiden to pick up the pieces, he's a fantastic trainer and deserves a classic win in America, it's not a given..but take the guess work out,..Southwell in September beating stable mates rated 20lbs hasn't worked..save the hype spend the money you have and send a live dirt contender...congratulations on having the winner anyway!!..just very disappointed as an Irish man wanting City of troy to be the best in a competition he never had a chance in..(no bet had on the race )..just a massive enthusiast for the game.
Coolmore won the race lol, we will never have dirt tracks in UK because we have properly bred horses, the US love dirt because its predictable and easy to race on, outcomes are easier to predict as weather doesn't come into it. In the UK we train horses properly with no drugs, you have to remember american trainers are lazy.
@Lukerose I have to disagree with us having "properly bred" horses, we have many dirt sires or at least horse with dirt sires and close up in their pedigree, and we should have some real dirt tracks, especially for the drier months of April to September, I bet a lot of horses who we class as not that good could actually be very good on that surface if given a chance?
@Lukerose But they aren't, if that was the case? City Of Troy would have won easily, it's nothing to do with quality, it's just a different surface which some horse excel at and some just can't cope with, as I've already pointed out, there plenty of dirt horses in many European horse pedigrees, all weather used to have the same stigma many years ago, just there for the poorer horses, and now we have classic winners and champions racing on it.
Everyone slating City Of Troy and O'Brien, I bet not one of you spent over 4k on going there to see him take his shot at destiny? I did and I ain't bitching. We all knew the task he faced, he probably is one of the best O'Brien has had. They could have gone to the piss poor renewal of the BC Turf and probably won it doing handstands. They took the brave man's call and tried something few in the game would dare to try. It failed, but they tried. Every bit of respect should go their way for TRYING it. Not many times in the 30 years I've watched racing can I think of a horse participation in a race drawing such attention, the chance wasn't just to win a race, it was to write a name firmly in the history books, and create something that would have been talked about for the next century to come. They'll get it done. My only thing is I believe they need to send them over to the US sooner, get a good 2000 or Derby winner, you need to send them packing 2 months earlier to take in a proper Grade 1 preparation race on the dirt
Sorry to poor cold water on your somewhat romantic view about why they sent City Of Troy to the Breeders Cup Classic and see him getting humiliated, it wasn't to rewrite the history books, or create something that we will be talking about in years, it was clearly a ego and financial matter, they have already set his stud fee at a steep €75k, it would have been considerably more had he won this race, but on another note, I hope you enjoyed the occasion and backed a few winners?
Blinkers, and mount the challenge not too far off the rails in deep stretch and you're surely going to be the winner. I said same yesterday and the person took down their video for whatever reason. 😅😅😂😂❤❤... Every Gun runner colt is a beast.
If Velasquez could have held Fierceness off of that suicidal first half mile ( like Sierra)perhaps he could have had something to battle with in the stretch.
Just UK fans backing their horse, nothing wrong with that. I personally knew he wasn’t going to win because of his lack of pace which was shown on his prep race.
@@leroyhamblin6030 Galileo’s stud fee wasn’t affected by finishing 6th in the Classic. No guarantees their stud performance will match track performance but this race won’t be a determining factor in his fee.
Getting out of the gate wasn't Troy's problem. He was totally listless like his Guineas run. They were asking too much of him, he's been on the go for over six months. Massive difference between dirt and grass. Stupid mistake by Magnier and Co. The Arc was the obvious target but for some reason the Coolmore mafia have a problem with France. We hear that Aidan is still 'delighted'. He doesn't gamble.
I had the 13 to show for 100 I had to four the place for 50 not a good day at the track today took the 14 and the last race thought he was the best for 50 across-the-board nowhere to be found?
Lost like $360 on 3 of the last 4 races, had a piece of the exacta in the mile, so broke even on that, had Johannes $$ 80 to win. Had the exacta 5x in the FM sprint, and had Rebels romance, not bad for only picking one winner out of 12 races, lost about $100..
Deserves this victory. I will forever hold that gaffalione lost the Kentucky derby by continually going wide. If it had been borel they would've been buried
City of Troy dissappointed he had no chance of winning on the dirt track and he was so far back from the off made it impossible for him 2win not one of Ryan Moore's better races
Fieirness ran the best race but jockey did a very poor job , pace killed poor boy v3lasquez should have backed off a little and saved some horse, plus track people set track up for closers all day.
I truly believe this race gave Sierra Leone confidence....This high priced colt had high expectations from the start....Who provides confidence to such a wonderful expensive horse? The trainer...... Perfect confirmation, good bloodlines.... Bravo....
Prat got him going into the turn like Beholder a few years back. This is critical because of the short stretch at Del Mar and Sierra Leone always came up short with longer stretches. Great ride by Flavien and training job to fix his lugging in issues.
Yep...Lets Give The Horse Some Credit Though...He Was Moving Beautifully Today
Finally got even with this horse.
They tried it in the Travers but was a little late and Prat had to go inside. This time he stayed outside and that's all she wrote.
Funny how I listened to Siegel, the morning line odds maker propped up COT and Next up so much. I'm not sure if he was giving "fake news" but he was so wrong on all of the lines this weekend, especially in this race.
@@karltbui Jeff Siegel?....At Least Next Was Running on Dirt...COT Was The Most Overrated Classic Horse in History
AP Indy blood line . Ran with his head low
Love Sierra Leone, so glad to see him be out on top in the Classic! What a talented, gutsy horse and kudos to Fierceness another very talented horse!
Knew he was due to win❣️ Felt he didn’t get the respect he deserved before the race! Always believed in him 💜💜💜
Wow what a brilliant ride by Flavian Prat. 2nd to last out of the gate and he just picked off horses one by one. By midway on the far turn, his engine was in full rev mode. Fierceness was game, but not his day.
Way to go Sierra Leone!
Both jockey & horse had a good chemistry in the back stretch : Sierra Leon ran as if he knew he had something to prove on previous defeats: showed so much pluck& determination for a well deserved vindication.
Awesome! I knew once he got away from Saratoga that he would win something big. He's a very nice horse and has the stamina too. Love him!
City of Troy was a joke! Couldn't even get out of the gate. Great training job O'Brien! You believed your own hype! Congrats Sierra Leone!
Probably took one shot of dirt in the face and quit.
This is the best he's trained 😂 I can't believe he was saying that ? Here's a trainer who's had 400 G1 winner's, Galileo, Giant's Causeway, High Chaparral, Hawk Wing, George Washington, Dylan Thomas, Excelebration, Fame and Glory, So You Think, Australia to name a few.
@andrewblackie7170 A turf trainer can't train a turf horse to run on dirt, and O'Brien and Coolmore just proved it!
Sierra Leone lost the battles,but Won the 7 million dollar war.
I hope we get to see Sierra Leone race as a 4yo, it would be a real treat for racing fans.
He'll be in training as a 4yr old for sure, I think he'll improve & be even better next season.
I dont think Coolmore, Brant, Tabor and other great owners of Sierra Leone would risk that. He's worth so much more as a Stud!! Keep him safe.
@@WiLLy2xs I thought they already came out with the statement that he will be in training for next year. Maybe they changed their minds?
FLAVIEN PRAT, BEST JOCKEY IN THE WORLD...😮😮😮❤❤❤
You did your daddy proud…two champions….love you both..🫶🫶
An impressive performance. Memories of Arazi.
Finally Sierra's timing gets it done---big payout on the win...thank you kindly!!
Gutsiest second in many years. Absolute suicidal splits. Those top 3 are pure class.
Again the Japanese horse blew up the race, 5th in Dubai, 5th in prep, shouldn't be in the race.
The fact that Fierceness held on for second tells you how good he is. Just a nuclear pace. The 12 on the outside bothered him. With him you have to let him do his own thing. Forever young was closer than I expected. I think it hurt him today.
Flavian Prat has to be Jockey of the Year. Broke the Stakes win record at Saratoga and tops off with a BC Classic triumph.
What champion deserve every win born to run my the best 🏆 ❤❤❤
Sierra Leone, like his sire Gun Runner, has that low head carriage. Gun Runners usually get better as they age. Let's hope both Sierra Leone and Fierceness come back as 4 year olds
Earlier this year I thought this was an average crop of 3 year olds. Sierra Leone , Fierceness and Forever Young have developed into top quality racehorses with the speed figures to back it up.
Ex as
On the snap !!! 🙌🏻😎🐎💰
I PLAYED A PLACE BET ON FIERCENESS ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
When I heard that City of Troy was running in the Classic my first thought was Why? Why not the Turf Classic, this horse has never run on anything but turf. I just don't that one of the biggest races of the year is when you should take that kind of risk on finding out if your horse preforms on a different surface.
didn't like the dirt thats for sure
Hace aproximadamente Como dos semanas yo les dije que Sierra Leona no perdia esta carrera.felicidades a Los que ganaron
Buena monta de ese gran jinete F Prat sin duda demostrando sus cualidades filicidades
Since Sierra Leone debuted, I saw in him an excellent thoroughbred, with a very strong run, but the only defect was that he charged inwards entering the final stretch. Finally Chad Brown managed to solve it with a bigger bite and here he ran straight and convinced Now I am sure that if they take him to the United Arab Emirates, he will win the Saudi Cup or the Dubai Cup, for sure.
It was probably true that only Cigar does, from turf to dirt, what a great horse indeed
Next has done quite well, many others..
Secretariat.
Congratulations Sierra Leone and his connections. I knew you could do it.
Thorpedo Anna should get Horse Of The Year🎉
Well said I agree with you even though I had my money on Arthur's ride
Agree, Sierra Leone, won the Classic but what other race? The. Bluegrass? Anna drilled him in the Travers, and wins if you switch post position with Fierceness..
@@chrisp.9172
Well there's a million ways to lose a race and only two ways to win.
Could've would've should've isn't listed in the history of the race.
Best wishes, be well🏇
@@elizabethferguson7002 First of all, I was agreeing with you that Anna should win HOY, plus I was talking about the fact that she beat Sierra Leone in the Travers, woulda, shoulda, coulda had nothing to do with it. I WAS AGREEING WITH YOU..
@@chrisp.9172 I wasn't arguing with you. I "liked"👍 your comment.
We're all good right?
Go Thorpedo Anna.
Crazy these 3year olds are the last crop of Fast Anna's foals. He was a consistent stallion. And now sire of Eclipse Award winner and possibly a future Hall of Famer👍🎉❤️
23:43, 43:96, 1:09 if the betting public had any idea this was going to happen he would be the favorite he was the right horse
Respect to Fierceness he hang in there he will get him in the Pegasus in January
Can Leon catch nysos in the Pegasus
Sierra Leone finally got the pace up front he needed. Fierceness was very game for second.
Good jockey.👍👍👍
Coolmore, with all your resources, build a dirt track and run your best breeders cup classic chances on it..stop guessing and leaving Aiden to pick up the pieces, he's a fantastic trainer and deserves a classic win in America, it's not a given..but take the guess work out,..Southwell in September beating stable mates rated 20lbs hasn't worked..save the hype spend the money you have and send a live dirt contender...congratulations on having the winner anyway!!..just very disappointed as an Irish man wanting City of troy to be the best in a competition he never had a chance in..(no bet had on the race )..just a massive enthusiast for the game.
Coolmore won the race lol, we will never have dirt tracks in UK because we have properly bred horses, the US love dirt because its predictable and easy to race on, outcomes are easier to predict as weather doesn't come into it. In the UK we train horses properly with no drugs, you have to remember american trainers are lazy.
100% correct , build one ,,
@Lukerose
I have to disagree with us having "properly bred" horses, we have many dirt sires or at least horse with dirt sires and close up in their pedigree, and we should have some real dirt tracks, especially for the drier months of April to September, I bet a lot of horses who we class as not that good could actually be very good on that surface if given a chance?
@Thomas-vg8ov you'll never find proper grade 1 races on dirt in UK, dirt tracks are for poorer horses
@Lukerose
But they aren't, if that was the case? City Of Troy would have won easily, it's nothing to do with quality, it's just a different surface which some horse excel at and some just can't cope with, as I've already pointed out, there plenty of dirt horses in many European horse pedigrees, all weather used to have the same stigma many years ago, just there for the poorer horses, and now we have classic winners and champions racing on it.
Everyone slating City Of Troy and O'Brien, I bet not one of you spent over 4k on going there to see him take his shot at destiny? I did and I ain't bitching. We all knew the task he faced, he probably is one of the best O'Brien has had. They could have gone to the piss poor renewal of the BC Turf and probably won it doing handstands. They took the brave man's call and tried something few in the game would dare to try. It failed, but they tried. Every bit of respect should go their way for TRYING it. Not many times in the 30 years I've watched racing can I think of a horse participation in a race drawing such attention, the chance wasn't just to win a race, it was to write a name firmly in the history books, and create something that would have been talked about for the next century to come. They'll get it done. My only thing is I believe they need to send them over to the US sooner, get a good 2000 or Derby winner, you need to send them packing 2 months earlier to take in a proper Grade 1 preparation race on the dirt
Sorry to poor cold water on your somewhat romantic view about why they sent City Of Troy to the Breeders Cup Classic and see him getting humiliated, it wasn't to rewrite the history books, or create something that we will be talking about in years, it was clearly a ego and financial matter, they have already set his stud fee at a steep €75k, it would have been considerably more had he won this race, but on another note, I hope you enjoyed the occasion and backed a few winners?
Any second class Australian horses turn up?
Of course not, since they have their own big things to take at home in the meantime, which make them pay less attention to these ones here.
No, their trainers have more sense, they don't have dirt horses in Australia.
fierceness gets to top early ,its over.........pushed tooooo hard.great horse great race
City of Troy used the wrong tyres, pulled if you ask me, to save the bookies millions , fix
Blinkers, and mount the challenge not too far off the rails in deep stretch and you're surely going to be the winner. I said same yesterday and the person took down their video for whatever reason. 😅😅😂😂❤❤... Every Gun runner colt is a beast.
Lost 4 in a row before this 2 to fierceness
Popopopo magnificent
If Velasquez could have held Fierceness off of that suicidal first half mile ( like Sierra)perhaps he could have had something to battle with in the stretch.
The City of Troy Fan Posse are Hiding Under Their Table
Just UK fans backing their horse, nothing wrong with that. I personally knew he wasn’t going to win because of his lack of pace which was shown on his prep race.
City of troy should of run in the turf classic not the dirt classic
The trainer spoilt city of troy stud fee
@@leroyhamblin6030That's the thing , he didnt, there's basically no risk " he just didn't handle the dirt" built in excuse..
@@leroyhamblin6030 Galileo’s stud fee wasn’t affected by finishing 6th in the Classic. No guarantees their stud performance will match track performance but this race won’t be a determining factor in his fee.
Getting out of the gate wasn't Troy's problem. He was totally listless like his Guineas run.
They were asking too much of him, he's been on the go for over six months.
Massive difference between dirt and grass. Stupid mistake by Magnier and Co.
The Arc was the obvious target but for some reason the Coolmore mafia have a problem
with France. We hear that Aidan is still 'delighted'. He doesn't gamble.
I had the 13 to show for 100 I had to four the place for 50 not a good day at the track today took the 14 and the last race thought he was the best for 50 across-the-board nowhere to be found?
Lost like $360 on 3 of the last 4 races, had a piece of the exacta in the mile, so broke even on that, had Johannes $$ 80 to win. Had the exacta 5x in the FM sprint, and had Rebels romance, not bad for only picking one winner out of 12 races, lost about $100..
Deserves this victory. I will forever hold that gaffalione lost the Kentucky derby by continually going wide. If it had been borel they would've been buried
City of Troy dissappointed he had no chance of winning on the dirt track and he was so far back from the off made it impossible for him 2win not one of Ryan Moore's better races
Sorry, but the winner came from exactly the same position, he clearly couldn't adapt to the dirt.
This horse was the best bet for me I tell everybody of my friends only 2 people leasing to me I put 10k to win to Sierra the horse pay $15.60
Next ran last, shocking😂
Does it make the micro feel bigger?
I am sure that horse has more courage and heart than the human who just couldn't wait to laugh at him. I know he has more class.
Flavian prat un matón " metralleta PRAT"
Fierceness lose because of the fast pace
Excelente atropellada de Sierra Leone para ganar este importante Clásico Hípico
Gracias
@@eleonoraroos6246 😅😅😅 te autorespondes 🤣🤣🤣
Fieirness ran the best race but jockey did a very poor job , pace killed poor boy v3lasquez should have backed off a little and saved some horse, plus track people set track up for closers all day.
Funny how horse that couldn't win all year are better in bc cup day win only reason is money
Not at all, they aren't machines, he has never been in a race ran at such a ferocious pace, those in front took each other on too soon.
外掛け！
Just a jog-trot. These horses wouldn't win a country race in Australia.
Go sSieera my cKat 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ SE7EN