Six days after the moving triumph of Just Love You in the Prix Ténor de Baune, Laurent-Claude Abrivard and his son Alexandre will once again be very visible at a high level on Saturday at the Prix de Bar-le-Duc. After having already won two victories this winter in the Prix Jean Boillereau, then in the Prix Jean Dumouch, Inexcess Bleu can leave his mark even more on the start of the winter meeting and confirm that he is perhaps, even very certainly, the best gelding currently active. “Right now, this is the real Inexess Bleudeclared Alexandre Abrivard after his last victory. He hasn’t always been at his best this year, but the main thing is to be in good shape at the moment.”
The son of Vittel de Brévol, who is preparing to cross the threshold of 600,000 euros in winnings, will face opposition on Saturday within his reach, even if he will have to surrender twenty-five meters. “The field has widened a little, which is why he will be on track on Saturday before the Prix du Luxembourg”, confirms its driver in our “Piste information” on the eve of this Prix de Bar-le-Duc.
Be careful, however, because the list of starters includes one of the candidates for the next Prix d’Amérique: Fakir de Mahey. Brilliantly qualified for the big event on January 26 thanks to his fourth place in the Prix du Bourbonnais – America Races Q2 in which he carried all the weight of the race, the resident of Mathieu Mottier will find Yoann Lebourgeois, his tunemaker being suspended on Friday and Saturday.
The “JMB” tandem reformed
Both will have to make the distance to younger and quality competitors like Madrik iconwhich will allow us to see the Jean-Michel Bazire – Jean-Michel Baudouin tandem on the track again. An association which has more than… 550 victories (!) but which has not been reformed since January 2021.
Recent third in the Prix Narquois, his training companion Jiosco de Phyt’s will start at the near post also with a good chance to try to bring Jean-Michel Baudouin a third victory in this event after Epsom d'Herfraie et Eva's Hungarian.
