2004 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe explained

Location:	Longchamp Racecourse
Winning Horse:	Bago
Previous:	2003
Next:	2005

The 2004 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 3 October 2004.^[1] It was the 83rd running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

The winner was Bago, a three-year-old colt trained in France by Jonathan Pease. The winning jockey was Thierry Gillet.^[2]

Race details

• Sponsor: Groupe Lucien Barrière
• Purse: €1,600,000; First prize: €914,240 ^[3]
• Going: Good
• Distance: 2,400 metres
• Number of runners: 19
• Winner's time: 2m 25.0s

Full result

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Pos.	Marg.	Horse	Age	Jockey	Trainer (Country)
1		Bago	3	Thierry Gillet	Jonathan Pease (FR)
2	½	Cherry Mix	3	Christophe Soumillon	André Fabre (FR)
3	1	Ouija Board	3	Johnny Murtagh	Ed Dunlop (GB)
4	2	Acropolis	3	Jamie Spencer	Aidan O'Brien (IRE)
5	shd	North Light	3	Kieren Fallon	Sir Michael Stoute (GB)
6	½	Vallee Enchantee	4	Stéphane Pasquier	Élie Lellouche (FR)
7	snk	Latice	3	Michael Kinane	Jean-Marie Béguigné (FR)
8	2½	Silverskaya	3	Ioritz Mendizabal	Jean-Claude Rouget (FR)
9	½	Warrsan	6	Kerrin McEvoy	Clive Brittain (GB)
10	shd	Valixir	3	Éric Legrix	André Fabre (FR)
11	nk	Execute	7	Dominique Boeuf	John Hammond (FR)
12	½	Blue Canari	3	Christophe Lemaire	Pascal Bary (FR)
13	½	Pride	4	Thierry Jarnet	Alain de Royer-Dupré (FR)
14	snk	Imperial Dancer	6	Ted Durcan	Mick Channon (GB)
15	hd	Mamool	5	Frankie Dettori	Saeed bin Suroor (GB)
16	½	Prospect Park	3	Olivier Peslier	Carlos Laffon-Parias (FR)
17	8	Tap Dance City	7	Tetsuzo Sato	Shozo Sasaki (JPN)
18	1½	Grey Swallow	3	Pat Smullen	Dermot Weld (IRE)
19	10	Policy Maker	4	Thierry Thulliez	Élie Lellouche (FR)

• Abbreviations: shd = short-head; hd = head; snk = short-neck; nk = neck

Winner's details

Further details of the winner, Bago.

• Sex: Colt
• Foaled: 3 February 2001
• Country: France
• Sire: Nashwan; Dam: Moonlight's Box (Nureyev)
• Owner / Breeder: Niarchos Family

External links

• Colour Chart – Arc 2004

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2004 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . Racing Post . 1 July 2012.
2. News: Bago comes of age in Arc . . 3 October 2004 . 1 July 2012.
3. Web site: 2004 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . . 1 July 2012.