This Sunday, Tiégo d’Etang and Roxane Griff (photo) will be the two favourites in the Prix de Cornulier. A week later, they will be rivals again in the greatest of trotting races, the Prix d’Amérique Opodo 2015. What do Jag de Bellouet, Bellino II, Tidalium Pelo and Masina have in common? These four grand champions are the only horses to have…
He was presented as one of the pretenders to the Prix d’Amérique crown at the end of last year, but Aladin d’Ecajeul met with a failed attempt in the Critérium Continental on December 21st. However, Philippe Dewulf’s 5-year-old champion is capable of squaring up to his elders and looking them straight in the eyes and he will be trying to…
On January 25th, Franck Nivard (on the right of the photo) will be competing in his 9th Prix d’Amérique. The Avranches-born driver can quite rightly pride himself on being the most efficient driver in the world trotting championships since the middle of the last decade, and he hasn’t missed a single edition since 2007. Jean-Michel Bazire may well collect ‘’Sulkys…
He is primed for the Prix d’Amérique Opodo, in peak condition and riding high at the top of his game. At 7 years old, Uhlan du Val has gathered all the experience he needs to make himself into a high-level trotter. He was thrown into competitions at the deep end very early on and took part in one of his…
Uhlan du Val and Vulcain de Vandel have won the Prix de Belgique and the Prix Ténor de Baune respectively, which means both horses have now qualified for the Prix d’Amérique Opodo 2015. Uhlan du Val (photo) has been a top-level player on the scene for the past two seasons and he put in a remarkable performance to win the last…
There will be a total of 21 runners in the final two 2015 Prix d’Amérique-Opodo preps on Sunday. Ten will line up in the Prix de Belgique at 3.40pm French time, and eleven in the Ténor de Baune just over an hour later at 4.45 pm. With the Big Race itself only 15 days away, here are the fields for…
The Prix Tenor de Baune is a Group II race for 6-year-olds and ever since it was launched by LeTROT in 2008, the winner has also been given a “wild card” to enter the Grand Prix d’Amérique. Tenor de Baune was the only trotting champion to have won the Grand Prix d’Amérique while remaining invincible; symbolically, it was his granddaughter…
Queen L is the last trotter to have registered a double with the Prix de Belgique and Grand Prix d’Amérique in the same year and she has charted the course for foreign competitors in the “4th B” – the last of the four prep races ahead of the world trotting drivers’ championships. Since 1993, 10 editions of the Prix de…
As the champions shape up for the 2015 Prix d’Amérique Opodo, the last of the Big Race preps will play out at Vincennes on Sunday, January 11th. After the Prix de Bretagne, Bourbonnais and Bourgogne, the ‘4B’ series concludes with the Prix de Belgique which will be handing out the final points the first five in each qualifier receive. It…
