--- description: > Soltikoff, a 40-1 long shot: the $231,000 Arc de Triomphe, France's richest horse race, run over Longchamps' egg-shaped 1½-mi. grass course. Finishing a dismal tenth was the U.S.... title: Sport: Who Won: Oct. 19, 1962 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Sport: Who Won: Oct. 19, 1962 by [TIME](/author/time/) Oct 19, 1962 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Oct 19, 1962 4:00 AM CUT \> Soltikoff, a 40-1 long shot: the $231,000 Arc de Triomphe, France’s richest horse race, run over Longchamps’ egg-shaped 1½-mi. grass course. Finishing a dismal tenth was the U.S. Cinderella horse Carry Back, given what Owner Jack Price and other observers (including ex-Jockey Eddie Arcaro) called a “stupid” ride by Australia’s Scobie Breasley. “Two hours before post time, Breasley was still in the dining room, having a hearty lunch and sipping champagne,” said Price angrily. “At the eighth pole—where ,Carry Back usually makes his best run—it looked like Breasley’s efforts at the luncheon table were beginning to tell. He stopped riding.” Price challenged the Arc’s first five finishers to a winner-take-all rematch, with each owner backing his entry with $25,000 in cash. — Jimmy Clark, 26, a Scottish farmer who took his first turn at the wheel of a Grand Prix racer only two years ago: the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, N.Y., by the margin of 15 sec. over Britain’s Graham Hill (TiME, Sept. 28). In a hurry to get home and “get the feed in for the winter,” Clark gunned his low-slung V-8 Lotus into the lead at the start, set a new lap record (110.4 m.p.h.), and stubbornly fought off Hill—despite a clutch that failed midway through the 230-mi. contest. Runner-up to Hill in the duel for the Grand Prix driving championship, Clark needs a victory in next month’s South African Grand Prix to win. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6624048/sport-who-won-oct-19-1962/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6624048/sport-who-won-oct-19-1962/"},"headline":"Sport: Who Won: Oct. 19, 1962","datePublished":"1962-10-19T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T07:20:48.258Z","description":"> Soltikoff, a 40-1 long shot: the $231,000 Arc de Triomphe, France's richest horse race, run over Longchamps' egg-shaped 1½-mi. grass course. Finishing a dismal tenth was the U.S....","url":"https://time.com/archive/6624048/sport-who-won-oct-19-1962/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6624048/sport-who-won-oct-19-1962/","name":"Sport: Who Won: Oct. 19, 1962"}}]}] ```