Only female jockey to have won the Prix de Cornulier (Gr. I), with malachitein 2009, Céline Leclercq was honored for the second consecutive year through a race that bears her name, in the Temple du Trot, on this coronation day for mounted trotters. This year, this event for 6 to 11 years old inclusive, having not won 260,000 euros, was won by Eros Zola. Arriving at Thierry Duvaldestin at the start of the meeting, and for his first steps in ridden trotting in France (he had started and won at Skive – Denmark under the saddle in June 2024), this son of Love Brain flew towards success, entrusted to Alexandre Abrivard. “I enjoyed myselfthe jockey immediately emphasizes. Already in the heat, it was very good, then I won the whole road. I had the right amount of gas, I felt in the last corner that I was going to jump. He went quickly to finish. I had a dream race. He is made for that.” He posted a very good time of 1’10”6 on this speed course of the 2,175 meters of the big track.
