Horse racing, Grand Prix Lottery of Agnano and Arc de Triomphe: the stories- Corriere.it

The French of the big game trot in Italy of the 73 Agnano Lottery Grand Prix in Naples, the Italians of the gallop in search of glory in the 101 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Paris: a curious Italian-French crossroads on international horse racing Sunday. Which sees in Naples, for 700,000 euros up for grabs between 24 horses in the three heats and the final on 1600 meters, two French drivers who together add up to 9 editions of the Prix d’Amerique, the most important trotting race in the world. Four for Jean Michel Bazire, who boasts 20 league titles in France and 6000 career successes, and who tomorrow with his Dorgos De Guez and Feydeau Seven aims at poker also in the GP Lottery, already signed with Exploit Caf in 2007, Gambling Bi in 2008 and Bel Avis in 2019. Even five Prix d’Amerique for his rival Frank cold hand Nivard, who was the driver of the father-son champions Ready Cash and Bold Eagle, and that tomorrow I will drive the Swede Milliondollarrhyme. In pure class the glorious Frenchwoman Delia de Pommeraux dominates them, one of the few horses to have beaten Face Time Bourbon once in her life, the Italian (by now in breed) twice to score in the Amerique.

But the blue trot, more and more bell-like trot, promises to be well fortified by Vivid Wise As (by the Neapolitan Antonio Somma as Face Time Bourbon), who has a particular feeling with France as he is the record holder of the transalpine tracks in 1’08 ”6 per km. Renato Santese’s team is also Neapolitan Cockstike, the horse caught in Norway with which in Stockholm he won the Elitlopp in 2020 also in heats and final. And hoist the Neapolitan flag as well Zacon Youth, Giuseppe Franco’s sprinter who also runs a bit for Telethon, winner of the International Trot in New York in 2019 and the only one to have already won the Gp Lottery in Agnano two years ago. It is therefore logical that Pier Luigi D’Angelo, president of Ippodromi Partenopei, speaks of the Grand Prix Lottery of Agnano in the world elite of trotting, who also announces a moment of celebration for Vitruvius: the trotter of the brothers Guglielmo and Gaetano Miccich, in fact, parades before leaving the competition and entering the race after a long career embellished among the many grand prizes from the Oslo Grand Prix and the Orsi Mangelli-Unione Europea-Triossi-Continentale suite. But his stable is certainly not on foot: tomorrow he will have the American Global Trustworthy on the track, and a few days ago at the foal auctions he spent 120,000 euros to secure one of the first children of Face Time Bourbon.

Reverse course to the Paris of the gallop world championship, the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe worth 5 million euros for 20 horses over 2400 meters, where the Italian jockeys Cristian Demuro (riding Al Hakeem, bearer of the Emir of Qatar) and Lanfranco Dettori (hired by the German team of the defending champion Torquator Tasso) are looking for an encore after 2020 and the other even for seventh seal in the Arc. In the centenary of the birth of the Aga Khan breeding, the success of the French derbywinner Vadeni, standard bearer of the Ismaili prince, whose Belgian top jockey Christophe Soumillon (married to Miss France 1998 Sophie Thalmann) would be able to compete for just in time tomorrow the Arc before serving the record disqualification of 60 days inflicted on him yesterday for having caused the fall of his English colleague Rossa Ryan in a race in Saint Cloud. He is especially threatened by the Irish thoroughbred Luxembourg, who also has Georg Von Opel heir to the family car fortunes among the owners, and a quartet of Japanese invaders led (riding the Japanese Derby graduate Do Deuce) by the richest jockey of all. times, 52-year-old Yutaka Take, $ 800 million forfeited from his horses in 4250 victories. Small change, all in all, for the owner of the gray Alpinist champion, Kirtsen Rausing, the Swedish seventh richest woman in England as owner of the Tetra Pak, and among the few who can rival the French tycoon Grard Augustin-Normand, heir to the founders of the Le Havre shipyards then started a bit in horse racing (tomorrow in competition with the Grand Prix de Paris graduate, Onesto) and a bit in finance until they sold their Richelieu France fund for 6 billion euros.