You can’t take any thing away from Lady d’Auvrecy and her trainer-driver Sebastian Baude, who this afternoon won the World Cup Trot Final, raced at a distance of about one and one-quarter miles at the hippodrome in Kazan, in Tatarstan, Russia.
But the race itself was a mess.
Just one horse happened to follow the starting gate at the start, and several went off-stride during the race, including the two favourites, Mara Bourbon and Kazire de Guez.
This is definitely not a race which will be fondly remembered in the history of the sport.
Going into the stretch on the one-mile track in Kazan, the French gelding l’Amiral Mauzun was had a comfortable lead, about 10 lengths, and looked like a sure thing. But he faded and instead the lovely 7-year-old chestnut mare, Lady d’Auvrecy, came up on the outside and went on and won by three lengths. She was followed home by another French trotter -- and outsider -- Isn’t Pascha, who finished second, followed home by l’Amiral Mauzun. Super Light of Sweden finished fourth.
Lady d’Auvrecy picked up a check for 150,000 Euros -- about $187,500 -- and was timed in a mile rate of 1:573.
Amerigo, who was foaled in the United States and represented Russia, finished a distant last in the race.
It was National day in Tatarstan, and more than 15,000 fans attended the races, which featured both harness races and flat races. |
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