Sagamix

Sagamix
Racing colours of Jean-Luc Lagardère
Sire	Linamix
Grandsire	Mendez
Dam	Saganeca
Damsire	Sagace
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	15 March 1995
Country	France
Colour	Grey
Breeder	Jean-Luc Lagardere
Owner	Jean-Luc Lagardere Godolphin Racing
Trainer	Andre Fabre Saeed bin Suroor
Record	9: 4-0-1
Major wins
Prix Niel (1998) Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1998)

Sagamix (foaled 15 March 1995) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1998 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Sagamix is a grey horse bred by his first owner Jean-Luc Lagardere. He inherited his grey coat from his sire Linamix, who won the Poule d'Essai des Poulains for Lagardere in 1990. Sagamix's dam, Saganeca, was a high class racemare who won the Prix de Royalieu in 1991. Sagamix was a dark-coated grey during his racing career, but lightened with age and in his stud career became almost white.

Lagardere sent his colt into training with Andre Fabre at Chantilly.

Having been unraced as a two-year-old, Sagamix made his debut in the Prix Hippolyte over 2400 metres at Saint-Cloud Racecourse in March and won comfortably by three quarters of a length. A month later at Longchamp he won the Prix des Marronniers, beating Dream Well by a neck. Sagamix was off the course for almost five months after his win at Longchamp, but his form was boosted when Dream Well won both the Prix du Jockey Club and the Irish Derby.

Sagamix returned to the racecourse for the Prix Niel at Longchamp in September. His opponents included Dream Well and Croco Rouge, first and second in the Prix du Jockey Club and the Derby Italiano winner Central Park. Ridden by Olivier Peslier, Sagamix took the lead in the closing stages and won by one and a half lengths from Croco Rouge. In the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on 4 October, Sagamix started 5/2 favourite in a field of fourteen runners. Peslier held the colt up in the earlier stages before making his challenge in the straight. He took the lead in the closing stages to win by a neck from the British filly Leggera, with the German colt Tiger Hill in third.