Specialists like to call it the other American election. “This is the beginning of the great epic”underlines Le Trotteur français. Sunday the Prix de Brittany marks the start of qualifying for the Prix d'Amérique. Big news of this new season: the first four, and no longer just the first three, of the four qualifying races, will get their ticket to the “Belle”, at the end of January.
The Prix de Bretagne America Races Q1 (Group 2 level) is the first of the four “B” (the Prix de Bretagne, Bourbonnais, Burgundy and Belgium), the “star” events of the “Amérique Races” circuit. This event is contested over the main distance (2,700 m), that of the Prix d'Amérique. Three major absentees are missing: Idao de Tillardwinner of the America Prize, makes a strategic impasse like his challenger Go on BoywhileHorsy Dream, the other trotter of the year, risks missing the entire meeting for health reasons.
The list of 18 starters has just been released
This triple package leaves the door open to an anthology of excellent challengers. The proof: eight of the eighteen starters are already millionaires. As usual, the West will represent the bulk of the peloton with fourteen horses. A match within the match between Normandy and Loire" rel="tag">Pays de la Loire! Don't look for a Breton, there aren't any. The little crack Gaspar d'Angis of Jean-Michel Baudouin being a gelding (castrated), this also cuts him off from America.
Seven Norman horses, seven Loire horses
Norman side,Hokkaido Jiel has Ampia Mede SMthe dolphins of the 2023 and 2024 American prizes, it is force 7. On the Loire side, Hussar of Landret (title holder) to Hooker Berry (winner of the 2023 Prix d'Amérique), there will be seven. To highlight, two trainers present two chances: Nicolas Bazire, who has just inherited almost all of the horses from his father Jean-Michel (still as imperial in the sulky ), and Laurent Claude Abrivard.
Around these beautiful people, two attractions: foreigners and K (aged 4). Here it is again San Motorthe Swedish star, announced as the scarecrow last year. As for Kana de Beylev (William Bigeon) and Krack Time Asset (Sébastien Guarato), they rub shoulders with their elders. Watch out for the “J” (5 years) anyway. In short, it all seems very open.
