The Gr. I Grand Prix de L’UET (purse €400,000, 2100 meters autostart, 12 starters) went to the 0.5/1 favorite Readly Express (4m Ready Cash-Caddie Dream) for driver Jorma Kontio, trainer Timo Normos and Brave AB of Sweden. The 1.12kr quick timed winner over the rain soaked harness racing track now has earnings of €799,275.
10.1/1 Tobin Kronos (4m Muscle Hill-Zamia FC) was a brave second for Kihlstrom, trainer Daniel Reden and Brixton Medial. Third was 30.4/1 In Vain Sund (4m Revenue-Staro Yasmine), also a Reden trainee and handled today by Kenneth Haugstad. 74/1 Nappa Scar (4m Scarlet Knight-Butterfly Player) was fourth for Per Lennartsson and 57/1 Breidablicks Nubbe was fifth for Conrad Lugauer.
Cash Gamble (5m Ready Cash-No Way Back) started top class action with a 6.7/1 victory timed in 1.13.4kr in the Quinte+ Prix Bohemia (purse €75,000, 2100 meters autostart, 15 European starters). J-M Bazire teamed the Fabrice Souloy trainee that Norway’s Stall TJ Gamble owns. 30.4/1 Blues d’Ourville (5g Password-Pursuit Of Charm) captured second for Mathieu Mottier ahead of 9.2/1 Super Fez (5m Love You-Lucia FI) for Gabriel Gerlormini and H.E. Bondo training for Italy’s Scuderia Cumana Group SRL. 142/1 Tiger di Poggio (4m Andover Hall-Idole di Poggio) and 35/1 Owen Face (5g Gift Kronos-Muscles Mcnuggets) were fourth and fifth, this pair teamed by Orjan Kihlstrom and Pierre Vercruysse.
The Gr. I Championnat Europeen for 3 Year-Olds (purse €100,000, 2100 meters autostart, 11 starters) went to the 0.5/1 impressive favorite Django Riff (3m Ready Cash-Rasta Perrine) for driver Joann Lebourgeois. Philippe Allaire trains the three-length winner for breeder/owner Elisabeth Allaire. Timed in 1.14.1kr off modest steady fractions in the pouring rain, Django Riff bested 14.2/1 Phantasm SOA (3m Cromwell-Ulver H) with Orjan Kihlstrom up for trainer A. Lundstrom Wolden and Norwegian owner Gudbrand ALM Skiaker. 23..6/1 Moni Viking (3m Maharajah-Jeunesse Doree) was third for Pierre Vercruysse, trainer Frode Hamre and Jen Lyng also from Norway. 3.5/1 Dawana (3f Ready Cash-Sanawa) was fourth for Gabriel Gelormini and 8.6/1 Jerry Mom (3m Ready Cash-Gaziella) was fifth, these two also Allaire trainees.
The monte featured Prix Gordonia (purse €82,000, 2850 meters, 17 European starters) went to 169.2/1 outsider Safari Dream (10g Fai Brillant-Le Memonia) that swept to the front at head stretch, drew off and held on for easy score timed in 1.13.3kr. J-Y Ricard was in the irons foe Ecurie de Rougemont. 32.5/1 Sydney du Rib (10g First de Retz-Eva du Rib) held second for PY Verva, trainer A. Ripoll Rigo and Cuadra Hermanis Ibigeuz, the owner. 6.2/1 Americaine (6f Chef du Chatelet-Marine Raudiere) ended third for J-P Minclin. Favorite at 1.2/1 was Ulka des Champs that was unplaced.
Thomas H. Hicks