Giovanni Fling takes Haromevesek Nagydija

Kincsem Park (Budapest) hosted four trots this day with harness racing purses over 1,000,000Huf each.

The three year old HU breds contested the Haromevesek Nagydija (purse 5,000,000Huf, 1900 meters autostart, eight starters three year olds) with 1.8/1 odds co- favorite Giovanni Fling (3g Chelsea Boko-Veronica Fling-Racino) a length the best timed in 1.16.2kr/ Neljko Mazsity drove and trains the five time winner in six starts.

Kabala Menes Kft bred the winner that defeated 4.2/1 odds Get Lucky (3m Chelsea Boko-Sultana Jet-Igor Font) with Andrea Fazekas aboard. Gyorgy Horvath trains and bred this solid trotteur. Third was 1.8/1co-favorite Ginevra (3m Owen CR-Nana-Tony Oaks) driven by her trainer Imre  Fazekas who also conditioned Nana to a fine racing career. Gaya T Boko (3f Chelsea Boko-Jasmine F Boko-Trixton) was fourth for Tibor  Hajnal. The race record is  1.15.7krset  in  2023  by Enjoy.

The five year olds contested the Otevesek Nagydija (purse 4,000,000Huf, 3000 meters autostart, five starters five year olds) and the 1.4/1 odds favorite Enjoy (5m Maharajah-Journey Boko=Zola  Boko)scored in stakes record 1.17.7kr over the extended distance.

Imre Fazekas teamed the Bernadett Balogh trainee for Prolongo III. Enjoy won for the 13th time in 24 career starts.

El Diablo (5g Milliondollar  Lux-Mellby Éclair-From Above) was second for trainer/driver Goran Zolnaji at 6.8/1 followed by Eternity Bar (5f Maharajah-Salome’ Bar-Ganymede) with trainer Balogh driving at 6.8/1 odds.

The Kanca DIJ (purse3,000,000Huf, 1900meters autostart, five starters four year olds) was next and Freya T Boko (4f Campo Bahia-Jasmine F Boko-Trixton) scored in 1.15.6kr for Goran Zolnaji. 

Adrian Burany trains the 11 time winner in 18 career starts for Serbian co-breeder Tisma.

The race record remains 1.15.5kr set in 2024  by Eternity Bar. Felhok felett (4f Calypso Capar-Pieradel Bar-Abano As) was second at 16.2/1 odds with Branko Skemderovic  driving for Serbia  trainer Aleksandar Dimitrijevic. Third home was 3.6/1 Fiona TIM (4f Oasis Bi-Ottawa SAS-Abano As driven by Csaba Lakatos for trainer Goran Zolnaji.

Aged  performers contested the Konta Dezso Memorial (purse1,200,000Huf, 1800 meters autostart, seven starters ages 6-9) with victory to 1.13.9kr timed classmaster Maugli (9g El Nino-Manisha Vita-Zerberus) off at 1.6/1 odds.

Janko Sagaj drove and trains the winner for Ekipa  II and he was bred by Joze Sagaj. Finishing second in a close match was 8.8/1 Digital Races (8m Super Photo Kosmos-Paired-Scarlet  Knight) with Istvan Papp driving  for Prolongo III and trainer Bernadett Balogh.  Bonaparte  Boss (8g Napoleon-Nikita-Crown Sweep)  was third at  3.1/1 odds driven by trainer Veljko Mazsity.

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by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink