Arrival of the fifth : 11 – 2 – 5 – 7 – 1
It was back to school at the Paris-Vincennes racecourse and the traditional quinté on Friday evening was reserved for trotters aged 7 to 9 on the 2,100 m course of the large track. Although forced to start from the second line behind the autostart, Flaubert the Great (No. 11) achieves a masterstroke for his first steps in a fifth and thus erases his failure last Monday on the grass track of Agon-Coutainville (Manche). “I had an excellent run, bringing me back to a plateau”, declared his driver Tony Le Beller after the success of this 7-year-old gelding.
He is clearly ahead The fire (n°2), whose end of race did not go unnoticed and the favorite, Flash de Vely, who gave the impression of a better mid-straight classification after leading the event. Constant appearing, Father West you Rib (n°7) completes the arrival of the quartet and leads Expeditious (#1). To note that Shepherd’s Trickster (n°4), Fanal du Garden (#6) and Feeling Boy (n°9) were at fault at the start of the course and were disqualified.
Thirty minutes earlier Intuition easily won the Prix Émile Riotteau (Gr. II). The winner of the last Prize of the President of the Republic should be reviewed in another Group I, the Elite Prize, scheduled for September 25 on the Parisian cinder.