ALL THE LATEST ON THE EUROPEAN SCENE BROUGHT TO YOU BY HARAS DES TROTTEURS VICTORY FAVOURS BOLD ANY DOUBTS as to the best horse in the world might be were pounded Texas Charm’s race record of European Group III Prix de into the black Vincennes 1’09”9. Grasse over Swedish raiders cinders as Bold Eagle It was Bold Eagle’s seventh Spartan Kronos and Al Dore. dominated the Prix Rene group one victory.and was Rue Dde Back (Infinitif) was Balliere at Vincennes on Pierre Pillarski’s reining Prix fourth for Fabrice Solouy. Sunday. field d’Amerique champion’s 24th Another Italian-bred Tony On one of the biggest days career victory in 28 starts. Gio won the Prix Raymond of the French racing calen- The €90,000 first prize mon- Fouard for French-based Bel- dar, Presidett’s Day, the Se- ey took his career earnings to gians Christophe and Vincent bastien Guarato trained son a tick over €1.92 million. Martens from yet another of Ready Cash voted with his The fourth group one of product of the Italian breed- feet as he faced a field includ- the day was a clean sweep ing industry Tessy d’Ete (Va- ing the Queen of this spring’s for Phillipe Allaire’s stable as renne). international circuit the aptly they provided the trifecta in Couer Baroque (Offshore named Swedish-bred mare the Prix Albert Viel for 3YOs, Dream) was third. Your Highness. Yoann Lebourgeois reined FRENCH FACT Trained in France by Fab- Django Riff (Ready Cash) President’s Day brought to a Eric Raffin sits quietly on Bold Eagle as he wins the Prix Rene Balliere. GERARD FORNI rice Solouy, Your Highness from the front to victory with close the Vincennes Spring (Chocolatier) stunned Elit- Back in her adopted home with Your Highness as Bold Your Highness has won her Dawana (Ready Cash) sec- Meeting. loppet champion Nuncio a Your Highness was aiming Eagle towed the field up the last three races with brilliant ond and Dollar Macker (Saxo The famous Paris trotting fortnight ago in Norway’s top for her fourth group one in a hill. turns of foot late in her rac- de Vandel), third. venue will now be closed for race the Oslo Grand Prix. row, and seventh win on the Amiral Sacha (Ganymede) es, but she could not catch In the other features, Ital- around five weeks until the The Chocoloatier had been trot this year. moved up to sit in death out- Bold Eagle who widened iy’s Roxanne Bar, driven by second Monday in August denied a chance at the Elit- Driven as usual by Swed- side Your Highness, while themargin as he effortlessly Roberto Andreghetti for train- when the Summer Meeting loppet crown when she was ish master Bjorn Goop, Your Tiego d’Etang (Chaillot) had sprinted home. er Catello Savarese won the commences. scratched on the morning of Highness shot to the early the perfect one-one sit. Untouched, Bold Eagle Sweden’s biggest race. lead from the number two There was no change in or- had more than two lengths But earlier in the sea- pole but Bold Eagle, with Eric der as the field crossed the to spare as Your Highness UET MASTERS SERIES Raffin in the bike for the first rise and the speed went on held on for second from Ami- son she won Sweden’s first The Prix Rene Balliere victory took Bold Eagle back to the time, sauntered up along- as they headed downhill. ral Sacha, with Tiego d’Etang group one Olympic Trot and top of the UET Masters Series rankings, with Your Highness side and by the turn into the Raffin gradually let out the was a close fourth. and followed that by taking slotting into second place on the table ahead of Oasis Bi, Joinville Plain he had taken reins on Bold Eagle and he Bold Eagle’s time for the the biggest crowns of Den- Timoko and Nuncio, with top 14 in the rankings guaranteed the lead. held a one-length advantage 2100m was 1’10”8 (1.54) mark (Copenhagen Cup) and a place in the Trotting Masters Final in Norway in Septem- Goop dropped in to trail as they turned for home. nearly a second slower than Norway. ber. UET MASTERS SERIES POINTS 1 Bold Eagle (FRA) 2800; 2 Your Highness (ITA) 2500; 3 Abrivard the full monte on President’s Day Oasis Bi (ITA) 2400; 4= Timoko (FRA) Nuncio (USA)1850; The Prix de President de la straight by Dragon du Fresne. 6 Lionel (NOR) 1750; 7 Un Mec d’Heripre (FRA) 1650; 8 Republic, the 4YO champion- Drole de Gosse (Gazoulis) Creatine (USA) 1600; 9 Orsia (ITA) 1550; 10 Delicious U.S. ship under saddle.tops the was second while Dhikti Ve- (USA) 1250; 11 Mosaique Face (SWE) 1150; 12 On Track billing on President’s Day, as daquais was third. Piraten (SWE) 1125; 13 Propulsion (US), Moses Rob (ITA) monte racing takes centre From the first crop of just 1100; 15 Votliguer de Myrt 1050; 16 Pascia’Lest (ITA) stage as Vincenne’s Spring eight foals by poorly pa- 1025. Meeting comes to a climax. tronised sire Saphir Cas- With four group ones, a telets, Chanceliere Citrus is group two and two group trained by the jockey’s father three races, President’s Laurent Claude Abrivard, Day is the most prestigious Alexandre Abrivard has won on the calendar in terms of four of the big monte races in ITALY and held off the fast finishing black type status. France this season, including Team Lombardo’s Superbo Vasterbo Highflyer. Top jockey Alexandre Abri- the two major prizes of the Capar won the Gran Premio Steen Juul’s Danish raid- vard won both group one Winter Calender aboard Prix Regione Sicilia at Palermo on er Tycoon Conway Hall who montes on the day saddling de Cornulier winner Scarlet Chanceliere Citrus and Alexandre Abrivard GERARD FORNI the weekend. was prominent throughout up second favourite Chance- Turgot. Drive by Guiseppe Lom- pipped pacesetting veteran liere Citrus (Goetmals Wood) on ahead with an ever in- the winner of the Prix The third major monte on bardo Jr, the son of Calypso Harry Haythrow for third. in the Prix de President de la creasing margin to the field, d’Etoiles for 3YOs, won in an the day was the Group II Prix Capar was quick to go to the The time was a slick 1’10”2 Republic. which strung out like un- upset by Dragon du Fresne, Xavier de Saint Palais which front and set terms to suit. (1.53) for the 1640m trip. Abrivard had the tall son ravelling pearls behind him an unfashionably bred colt went to Best of Jets ridden He slowed the pace for the NETHERLANDS of Goetmals Wood quickly to as they descended towards who overhauled tearaway in another dominant display second lap but then took off The Grote Prijs der Lage the lead of the 2850m clas- home. leader and favourite Dhikti of front running by Franck at the 500m mark and had Landen attracted several of sic while favourite Canadien Canceliere Citrus cruised to Vedaquais from the stable Laguadec for trainer Jean Mi- enough in his tank to hold the top French and Swedish d’Am settled a few lengths in the finish with half a dozen of Phillipe Allaire which has chel Baudouin. off Natale Cintura’s Looney stables to the Duindigt race- arrears. lengths to spare on the sec- dominated this French crop. Bellisima France stayed on Tunes (Ganymede). Santiago track on the weekend but it Canadien d’Am sensation- ond placed Cyprien des Bor- With Yoann Lebourgeois in strongly for Mathieu Abrivard de Leon (Ganymede) wa a was local star Caen Oldson ally broke stride on the turn des (Ouragan de Celland). the saddle Dhikti Vedaquais to claim second with Begum distant third. who prevailed, winning the before the climb and from Clegs des Charms (Legs had a lead of up to a dozen Fromentro third. The winner’s time was race for the third time in suc- there Abrivard was in total du Clos) was further adrift in lengths on the peleton but The winner recorded a 1’13”1 for the 2000m jour- cession. control. third place. was struggling by the turn slick 1’11”1 (1.54.2) for the ney. Trained by Frank Wester- Chanceliere Citrus strode Abrivard was also aboard and was caught easily in the 2175m journey. SWEDEN veld and driven by John de Frederik Solberg’s BBS Leeuw, the 7YO son of French Sugalight won the Gold Di- stallion Offshore Dream and vision race as elite Swedish a Dutch mare beat Swed- racing stopped off at Kalmar ish-bred Beckman, a regular on the weekend. on the tough French circuit Driven as usual by Peter for Fabrice Solouy. Untersteiner, BBS Sugarlight Duke of Greenwood, a SAM BOURBON BELLO (2nd 2850m Vichy) THE BEST MADRIK louse) CUPIDON DE BASSARD was forced to go three wide German-bed Otello Pierji WOT UP (Winner 2300m Blen- CORALIE DE BENAC (3rd 2400 DEL PIERO (Winner 2150m (2nd 2600m Reims) around the bend but pow- colt from local trainer Peter heim, NZ) CITY SEES (Winner Beaumont de Lomange) TADJA- Vichy) CENTAURE GEDE (Winner QUAKER JET ered home down the straight Strooper’s barn was third. 1’14”7/2700m Vincennes) CO- CAN (3rd 2800m Rambouillet) 2450m Caen) CYLINDREE (2nd DAISY PAULOIS (Winner 2700m CONUT BOND (Winner 2600m READY CASH 2800m Chartres) CURIOUS Graignes) CALENCIA (2nd Reims) DIONYS DES LIARDS BOLD EAGLE (Winner Group DREAM (2nd 2525m Questem- 1’14”7/2700m Vincennes) (Winner 2025m Avignon) COME I 1’10”8/2100m Vincennes) bert) CUAKER GROOVE (2nd 2450m BACK MONEY (2nd 2800m DJANGO RIFF (Winner Group ORLANDO VICI Caen) CROSS DAIRPET (2nd Chartres) I 1’13”8/2700m Vincennes) DORLANDO (Winner 2850m 2200m Vichy) BASIC INSTINCT LOVE YOU DAWANA (2nd Group I Vincennes) ANGEL SKY (Winner (2nd 2875m La Croise-La- NEW ZEALAND debutant The Foot Tapper, THE FOOT TAPPER (2nd 2300m 1’13”9/2700m Vincennes) 3000m Nantes) VERVEINE DU roche) BE BOP DE NAPPES Sam Bourbon racked up his from Mark Smith’s barn. Blenheim, NZ) RENE DES DADDY CASH (Winner 2450m MONT (Winner 2475m Caen) CE- (2nd 2825m Rambouillet) fourth winner from his first It would be fair to say that GITANS (2nd 2200m Alexandra Caen) CARAMEL D’ECHAL (Win- SAR DU CAIEU (Winner 2450m CISSY DU PAULOIS (3rd 2700m crop of just six foals when most of Sam Bourbon’s first Park, NZ) CYRIUS JIEL (Winner ner 2600m Reims) BOREADY Caen) AVOINE DE BLONDEL Vincennes) CHEF DE BRY (3rd Wot Up won the maiden trot crop were not out of the top (Winner 2525m Cavaillon) ATH- 2600m Reims) DROLEMENT 2600m Reims) BAKYRA (Winner (Winner 2725m Vittel) DRILLING at Nelson on Friday. echelon of mares in New Zea- 2700m La Croise-Laroche) DI- ENA FRANCA (Winner 2425m GRIFF (2nd 2850m Vichy) JOLIE (3rd 2875m Laval) BELLA Driven by Blair Orange for land, which speaks volumes AMOND PRIDE (Winner 2700m Saint-Aubin) ACTION GES (2nd REPEAT LOVE DES OLIVIERS (3rd 2300m Segre) BE LOVE DESBOIS (2nd 2600m Gemozac) DIVA DES CORSAIRE DU ROI (Winner Chartres) CHARM EVENING (3rd Motukarara trainer Michael for his ability to produce such 2100m Vincennes) VOICE MARCEAUX (2nd 2100m Vin- 2300m Chartres) DIVINE DY- 3000m Nantes) Howard, Wot Up powered high percentage of winners DREAM (3rd 1’13”6 2850m Vin- cennes) ARNAQUE (3rd 2450m NASTIE (2nd 2700m Graignes) MILE RATE CONVERSION: up the lead down the back to foals. He will be available cennes) AIMA DE VILLENEUVE Caen) DAKYRA (3rd 2000m BLUE WHITE (2nd 2850m Vichy) 2.00 =1’14”6, 1.57=1’12”7, straight and stayed on stout- to both New Zealand Austra- (2nd 2600m Reims) VIVALDO Rambouillet) BORD DE MER (2nd 2750m Tou- 1.54=1’10”8, 1.51= 1’09. ly beat home a Love You lian breeders again this year.