2024-01-06 18:28:30
They will be eighteen, the eighteen best trotters in the world to compete in the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race on January 28 at the Paris-Vincennes racecourse. Ten have already qualified for these world championships and three places are still up for grabs during the Belgian price run on January 14, the last of the 6 qualifying races for America Races PMU.
Five Normandy horses qualified for the Prix d’Amérique…
Five horses trained in Normandy are guaranteed to be on the starting line of the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race. Two from Calvados and three from Orne including Ampia Mede SM driven by champion Franck Nivard who finished second last year in the Prix d’Amérique. The 2024 edition will also offer a second chance to Idao de Tillard, the crack bred in Orne by the Duvaldestin clan, disqualified last year following galloping off in the first turn.
Idao de Tillard favorite for the 2024 Prix d’Amérique, here during a training session with Thierry and Clément Duvaldestin in Orne in 2023 © Radio France – Theo Boscher
Five Norman trotters have therefore for the moment won their ticket for the legendary trotting race. A place obtained by winning one of the six qualifying events, the last of which the Prix de Belgique contested on Sunday January 14, will allow the first three to run the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race.
For the best trotters who failed in these tests, all is not lost. THE last five places will be distributed according to their earnings. Clearly, the more a horse has a well-stocked bank account, the more likely it is to be selected for the world trotting championship.
…And three Norman trotters among the favorites!
Five trotters including Hooker Berry, winner of the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race 2023, are among the big favorites for this 2024 edition. Of these five favorites including three Normans : Gu d’Héripré (winner of the Prix du Bourbonnais and the Prix de Bourgogne, two of the qualifying meetings), Idao de Tillard and Ampia Mede SM.
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