Kieren Fallon and Frankie Dettori were out of luck as Europe were beaten by America in a jockeys' match at Santa Anita in California last night.
Team USA beat Team Europe 56 to 28 in the third staging of the British Airways Challenge to take a 2-1 lead in the annual event.
America's Mike Smith won two of the four races to take the individual prize among the eight riders competing. Irishman Mick Kinane, the only European to ride a winner, was second.
Fallon and Dettori managed one second place and one third respectively from their four mounts each.
Frenchman Gerald Mosse was the other rider in the European team, which was picked by Steve Cauthen.
Pat Day, Chris McCarron and Laffit Pincay Jnr completed Bill Shoemaker's US quartet.
On the same car Ex-British horses Dark Moondancer Single Empire, both once trained by Peter Chapple-Hyam, dominated the finish to the Grade Two San Luis Rey Stakes, with Dark Moondancer getting the verdict by a nose.
