Jelly-Belly's Lachlan Morton took the win and the yellow jersey on the third stage of the Tour Of Utah.
With Robin Carpenter the race leader, stage three was 191kms long (the longest stage of the race) and from Richfield to Payson.
Ben Perry, Simon Pelluad, Stephen Bassett, Krists Nelland, Andre Krashlinlkau and Tom Zirbel were in the break and were four minutes ahead when Pellaud took the sprint ahead of Bassett and Perry at Manti.
Julien Arrendondo of Trek was forced to abandon as the gap steadied at 2.36 as the leaders went through the town of Moroni, riding at an average of 42kmh.
Pellaurd took the sprint at Fountains Green, followed by Krashlinlkau and Bassett and then Pellaud decided to split the break and went away with Krashlinlkau, taking a thirty second lead.before the others were absorbed by the peloton.
With a lead of 2.45, the leaders started on the 16.6km, 3,000 vertical feet climb to Mount Nebo, which is over 9,000 feet above sea level whilst down the road, there was a crash with Greg Daniel, who had to abandon amid a number of riders involved including best young rider Colin Joyce who had finished in the top ten in the opening two stages.
The 23 year Pellaud of IAM Cycling went off on his own but was caught and Andrew Talansky of Cannondale and then Lachlan Morton took over on the front with only about twelve riders left in the front group.
Adrien Costa, the youngest rider in the race caught up to Talansky and Morton and the trio were 2.45 ahead of the yellow jersey group with three kilometres of the climb left.
In temperaturies of one hundred degrees, Costa took the points and the trio started on the 38km long decent into Payson, a minute ahead of Darwin Atapuma of BMC and Rob Brittain.
At speeds of 85kmh, the trio went through the twenty kilometre to go mark with a 1.50 lead to the chasers which now included BMC's Rosskopf and Taylor Eisenhart.
The trio were still 1.35 ahead going under the flam rouge. Lachlan Morton attacked with 800 metres to go and he rode away to take the win and the yellow jersey in 4.24.48 ahead of Costa and Talanksy.
Rosskopf and Brittain came home 1.22 down with Kiel Reijnen leading home the peloton some 3.57 after Morton had won.