Arrival of the fifth : 13 – 3 – 8 – 2 – 5. Not leaving : 4
A race can be lost or won by starting. For Sweet Scent (n°13), the victory was surely decided during his ultra-fast warm-up which allowed him to erase his initial handicap of 25 m. An observation shared by his driver, Yoann Lebourgeois. “It’s as if I had started in the lead,” he says at Equidia’s microphone. “He is a horse with great action, continues the winning trainer, Guillaume Gillot, who won his sixth quinté. I prefer it close to the front of the race because it doesn’t have a big shift. But with Yoann on his sulky, who is a fan of forward racing, things went well. ” Thereby, Sweet Scent wins his first quinté while his driver of the day now has 39 to his name.
Constantly pointed on a third line to the rope, Crack Trump (n°3) draws a good end of race and seizes the first runners-up in front Farrell Seven (n°8), to be credited with a fine final effort after an unfavorable race. Long in the wake of the future winner, Falcao de Chenu (n°2) cracks to finish but manages to keep fourth place ahead They gave (n°5).
Halim Bouakkaz and Stéphan Flourent indicated the fifth in the disorder.