The winning horse of the last two editions stopped by an infection. Four other Italians are looking for the company in Paris
Even on the Italian trot a Sofia Goggia-style tile falls: on the eve of the 101 edition of that Prix d’Amerique, which in Paris every last Sunday of January (live at 16.20 Unire Tv, 220 Sky) counts as an Olympics for horses from all over the world on the 2,700 meters of the black charcoal slope of Vincennes, in the last training an infection to the bone of the left front hoof crippled the very young 7-year-old Face Time Bourbon, already in 2020 and 2021 for the Neapolitan Bivans team in the 1 million euro race, and candidate for the consecutive trio successful in a century only in Uranie, Roquepine and Ourasi.
Career over, and Italy then relying on the position of the other four tricolor musketeers among the 18 qualifying opponents, starting with the teammate sometimes sacrificed precisely to Face Time Bourbon: the 8-year-old native Vivid Wise As, trained by Alessandro Gocciadoro (who will instead lead Vitruvius for the colors of the brothers Guglielmo and Gaetano Miccich) and driven by Matthieu Abrivard, winner of 9 Grands Prix and 1.6 million, as well as record holder of the French slopes at an average of 1’08 ”6 per km but on the most congenial sprint of 1,600 meters.
And always Antonio Somma’s Neapolitan Bivans team will be able to cheer in part even for one of the opponents, Zacon Gi, the nephew of Varenne (Italian champion who triumphed in Paris in 2001 and 2002) 7 years ago bred by Bivans but sold too quickly to 1,500 euros: a fortune seized on the fly by the Neapolitan restaurateur Giuseppe Franco, for whom the indigenous testimonial of Telethon has so far scrapped 1.3 million between New York (International Trot) and Naples (Lotteria di Agnano). Neapolitan traction also for the 9 year old Norwegian Cockstile, which at home – where he had won the Derby – many thought ended up with lung problems, and which instead, bought by the local TV publisher Renato Santese, gave an escalation that culminated in Stockholm in the Elitlopp 2020 success.
Four standard bearers, however, are already lined up alone by the 20 times Scudetto French trainer Jean-Michel Bazire, who in particular entrusts the reins of the curmudgeon Davidson du Pont to his 21-year-old son Nicolas to exorcise the spell of the two second places inflicted on him in 2020 and 2021 by Face Time Bourbon.
January 29, 2022 (change January 29, 2022 | 23:31)
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