The Scandinavians dominate the Prix de Belgique

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 “4^th B” – the last of the four prep races ahead of the world trotting drivers’ championships. Since 1993, 10 editions of the Prix de Belgique have been won by horses who hail from foreign shores, and most of them have been from Scandinavia. Queen L (1993 and 1994) and the Norwegian Yarrah Boko (2013 and 2014) have both excelled twice, first winning the Prix de Belgique and then confidently taking the Grand Prix d’Amérique two weeks later. 2011’s winner, Maharajah, missed out by a whisker to Ready Cash in the Prix d’Amérique, before being crowned the winner of France’s showpiece trotting event three years later. Another of Stefan Hultman’s charges to have shone in the Prix de Belgique, Naglo, was one of the major players in the Prix d’Amérique in 2004, which was snatched by Késaco Phédo.