{"id":6769,"date":"2021-01-27T15:47:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prixdameriqueraces.com\/?p=6769"},"modified":"2021-01-27T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:47:05","slug":"eric-raffin-dreams-about-prix-damerique-legend-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prixdameriqueraces.com\/en\/news\/profile\/eric-raffin-dreams-about-prix-damerique-legend-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Raffin dreams about Prix d&#8217;Am\u00e9rique Legend Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He won two Sulkies d&#8217;Or (trophy which rewards the best driver of the year) in a row in 2019 and 2020. His record includes numerous victories in Group I events, in particular three Prix de Cornulier, the Championship of Mounted Trotting World. Yet Eric Raffin has yet to win the race every professional dreams of: the Prix d&#8217;Amerique <em>Legend Race<\/em>. The 38-year-old pilot tried his luck several times and obtained several convincing runners-up. He was second in 2012 and fourth in 2014 associated with <strong>Roxane Griff<\/strong>, and third in 2011 with <strong>Olga du Biwetz<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2021 edition, the Vend\u00e9en, who has more than 3,700 total successes in his career, will drive <strong>D\u00e9lia du Pommereux<\/strong>, announced by many as the third favorite behind <strong>Face Time Bourbon<\/strong> and <strong>Davidson du Pont<\/strong>. The tandem formed for the first time on Sunday January 17th, in the Prix d&#8217;Am\u00e9rique Races ZEturf QUALIF # 6<em> Prix de Belgique<\/em>. Result: a superb second place behind the aforementioned <strong>Davidson du Pont<\/strong>. A fruitful baptism of fire which probably increased Eric Raffin&#8217;s ambitions tenfold. His partner, third previously in the QUALIF # 5<em> Prix de Bourgogne<\/em>, looks better than ever before his third participation in the Prix d&#8217;Am\u00e9rique <em>Legend Race<\/em> (she was sixth last year and disqualified in 2019). The popular tandem will in any case have many supporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He won two Sulkies d&#8217;Or (trophy which rewards the best driver of the year) in a row in 2019 and 2020. His record includes numerous victories in Group I events, in particular three Prix de Cornulier, the Championship of Mounted Trotting World. Yet Eric Raffin has yet to win the race every professional dreams of: the Prix d&#8217;Amerique Legend Race.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[199],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eric Raffin dreams about Prix d&#039;Am\u00e9rique Legend Race - Prix d&#039;Am\u00e9rique Races<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eric Raffin dreams about Prix d&#039;Am\u00e9rique Legend Race\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prixdameriqueraces.com\/en\/news\/profile\/eric-raffin-dreams-about-prix-damerique-legend-race\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eric Raffin dreams about Prix d&#039;Am\u00e9rique Legend Race - 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