Intractable in the final phase of the Prix du Languedoc (Group III), on November 9, not being approached by his contemporaries, Ino you Lupin et Inexcess Bleu, It’s a Dollarmaker should have a place at the start of the Grand National Trotting Final on Sunday, a circuit in which he made an appearance on May 22 at Croisé-Laroche (fifth while he was making a comeback). “He had a great race lastindicates his trainer, Sébastien Guarato. The horse has been doing well since then, nickel. He also worked well at home this morning (read Monday). Everything is OK. So it looks good for this weekend, even if it’s not going to be easy at twenty-five meters. But Eric (Raffin)who chose to drive it, told me he had a chance and could finish in the top three, if he repeated his last victorious outing.” By jumping to the second rung, the full brother of Dollar Macker will have a hard time practicing forward running this time. “He also knows how to run hidden and if they have pace up front, that will give him an advantage. Also, he had been preserved until the start of the straight line when he had pulled away to finish, when he had just taken the best, in the Prix Bold Eagle (Gr.I), at the start of his year of 5 years”recalls the man of Rapide Lebelwho won the GNT closing fourteen years ago… with Éric Raffin on the sulky.
