Wednesday’s Quinte+ Prix de la Ville de Royan (purse €50,000, 2850 meters, 16 European starters) went to 1.15.4kr timed and 5/2 odds barefoot Amarilla de Rabut (6f Ideal d’Liton-Deux Pommes) with harness racing Yoann Lebourgeois up for owner/trainer Philippe Duclos.
Belgium owned 29/1 Riviera As (6f Cantab Hall-Fortune As) was second for Franck Ouvrie, trainer Salvatore Campolo and owner Ecurie Z. 9/1 Stoneisle Lilian (6f SJ’s Caviar-Ginger Tree Megan) landed third for reinsman J-M Bazire and trainer Fabrice Souloy.
Wednesday’s Paris-Vincennes card also included the Prix de Bourigny (purse €85,000, 2850 meters, 11 starters) and the 1.14.5kr timed winner was 80/1 Beauty de Bailly (5f Vivaldi de Chenu-Oceane de Bailly) with Franck Ouvrie up.
39/1 Baraka de Bellou (5f Prodigious-Olifina) held second for Gabriel Gelormini and third was 15/1 Belline d’Urzy (5f Otello Pierji-Querida d’Urzy).
Thomas H. Hicks