Arrival of the fifth : 6 – 3 – 5 – 2 – 13
Scheduled the day before the Prix d’Amérique, the Prix du Luxembourg is considered a consoling event for trotters who failed to qualify for Group I scheduled for the last Sunday of January. After Aubrion du Gers in 2017, Cleangame in 2019 and Dorgos of Guez last year, Jean-Michel Bazire again won this prestigious Group III with a gelding of very high quality, Elie de Beaufour (#6). Installed in command on the climb, his resident again achieved great value and won with great ease, even setting the event record by achieving the kilometer reduction of 1′10′’4. “I had a good run,” said JMB on the podium. I never really stepped on the accelerator even though my horse was a little tired to finish. But that’s normal given the time. » Elie de Beaufour remains at the same time undefeated at Vincennes without his irons in eight attempts. Something to delight its owner, Éric Levallois, present on the racecourse. “He’s a good horse, with a great driver,” he says. Jean-Michel Bazire is the best. It is simply exceptional. »
Unshod from four feet, Alcoy (n°3) offered a very good response to the winner throughout the final phase, but finally had to settle for second place. Feliciano (n°5) realizes a good value by finishing third, just like Gareth Boko (n°2), whose return to France was expected. Calle Crown (n°13) completes the correct combination of the fifth and precedes Global TrustWorthy (#11) and Express Jet (n°4).
Stéphan Flourent indicated the quartet out of order in seven horses while Kévin Romain, Halim Bouakkaz and our Synthesis proposed it in eight horses.