Listen what Richard Mandella said after the Santa Anita Hcp. A great horse, you don't know where they are going to come from. But consistently as they are coming from South America, we have to take a pretty serious notice of it, I think. The best of the TNT runners is Brazilian bred Much Better, one of the best South American runners of recent years. Brasil and the Carlos Pellegrini in Argentina and was less than six lengths off Carnegie in the Arc du Triomphe.
Brazil has best pedigrees, but Argentina has most fertile land to develop tougher runners.
Maybe people weren't paying attention, but I seem to recall last summer at Del Mar when a horse named Cigar tried to run with Siphon. Second leg of the Quaduple Crown. It doesn't ring a bell like, say, Calumet Farm, but the TNT operation of Goncalo and Regina Borges Torrealba has enjoyed its share of success since 1990, the year the Borges Torrealbas entered racing on a serious level. The best of the TNT runners is Brazilian bred Much Better . St. Leger winner Singapore with Sir Gordon Richards up.