Sunday, November 17, the serious things will begin during this Vincennes winter meeting 2024-2025with the Prix de Bretagne – America Races Q1. This season, there will be four qualifiers (instead of three) in Q1, Q2, Q5 and Q6. The qualifying places will therefore be of great importance to take part in the major events. For this first act, Ganay de Banville et Hooker Berry will be the two cartridges of the drive Nicolas Bazire (who replaced the name of his father Jean-Michel in the trainers column), already the holder of 6 winners at the start of winter (figures as of November 11 inclusive).
During the previous financial year, Ganay de Banville could not qualify for the Prix d'Amérique Legend Race. Author of a good year, with a little less than €294,100 in winnings, this son of Jasmine of Flora try the adventure again. “I know that my horse will run well, he will do his best. If we qualify him, that's good. Now, he works like a normal horse. He had a very good year, he made some gains.”declared his driver Jean-Michel Bazire.
Winner of Prix de Bretagne – America Races Q1 and especially from Prix d'Amérique Legend Race in 2022/2023, Hooker Berry was not as sharp the following season. Good third of UET Elite Circuit Finale and fourth of 47th South-West Grand Prix more recently, the son of Booster Winner et Osaka Berry will try to confirm that he has returned to his top level. “Hooker Berry's last race was good. He finished well in a race without gear. I didn't want to start him too much, so we ended up in the bad spots, but it was clean. He ran quite a few times. time this season, he is not bad in the countryside He will have time to return to Grosbois after the race this Sunday. The horse is good, he showed it confidently to finish in the first four.his trainer – driver told us Nicolas Bazire.
Jean-Michel and Nicolas Bazire spoke about the chances of Ganay de Banville and Hooker Berry, to our journalist Giulia Taddei.
