Breeders' Cup Sprint Results
Dateline: 11/08/99
The Sprint was another wide open race. Forestry, who had been off since August, was a slight favorite over Artax with both at 3.7-1. Artax lept out of the gate and never looked back, setting blazing fractions if 22.04, 44.06, 55.83, and a final time of 1:07.89. This tied Mr. Prospector's track record since it rounds off to 1:07 4/5. It was nice to see Artax win after his brush with disaster on Preakness Day when the crazed fan ran out on the track to take a punch at him.
Breeders' Cup Sprint 5 Artax 9.40 5.20 4.00 2 Kona Gold 7.40 4.40 3 Big Jag 5.40 Final Time: 1:07.89 $2 Trifecta $306.60 $2 Exacta $57.80 $2 Superfecta $1,112.00Full Chart
Video of entire race from MSNBC in Media Player format. Depending on your web browser, you may or may not get a blank screen when you click on the video link, but the Windows Media Player will start up automatically to play the video if you have it installed properly.
Artax is a 4 year dark bay or brown colt by Marquetry out of Racing Apalachee by Apalachee bred in Kentucky.
Artax heading into the paddock.
Forestry going onto the track for the post parade.
Kona Gold in the post parade.
Courtesy of Terence Dulay
Artax is all out to hold off the late run of Kona Gold.
Artax returning after the race.
Trainer Louis Albertrani leads Artax and Jorge Chavez into the winner's circle.
Courtesy of Terence Dulay
In the winner's circle Chavez holds up 2 fingers for his 2 wins, the Distaff and the Sprint.
Courtesy of Terence Dulay
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