About ten days before the opening of the winter meeting for gallopers on the Cagnes-sur-Mer racecourse (Editor’s note: January 13), Marseille-Vivaux was the scene of its first meeting of the year. During an evening composed mainly of handicap events, the fifth race of the program deserved particular attention. In fact, it was reserved for 3-year-old colts and fillies who had never passed the pole in the lead, over the distance of 2,000 meters. It’s the beginner Ready, which obviously lives up to its name and which was ready to make a good debut, which won. Despite an unfavorable course, thick, during the entire race, the son of Chachnak wearing the jacket of Jean Pierre Dubois, shows himself to be the strongest in the straight line and dominates his training companion in the last meters, Sunny. The winner was associated with Rupal Singh, an Indian jockey, who took the opportunity to score the first victory of his career on French soil. Patient mid-platoon, Urea properly concludes his journey and grants himself second access. The favorite, Zero Anticipationwas seen for a long time in the second part of the peloton, on the rope side, and did not finish badly in fifth place.
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