Angle Of Attack pounces at Cagnes sur Mer

The Cagnes sur Mer action today began with the Prix Club de l’Echo Nice Matin (purse 45,000€, 2925 meters, eigth starters) and it was a battle finally won by 8/10 favorite Good Morning (4m Ni Ho Ped d’Ombree) with Franck Nivard up. Sylvain Roger trains and Noel Lolic owns the winner of 125,660€.

The 56/1 Gangster Devaness (4m Booster Winner) was a nose short second and 12/1 Gazelle Daxel trailed the top pair. Race time was 1.14.8kr.

Good Morning

The Prix de Florence (purse 45,000€, 2925 meters, 11 starters) went to 16/1 Funky Girl (5f Uhlan du Val-My Lovely Girl) clocked in 1.14.5kr with Louis Baudron aboard, he also the breeder/owner/trainer of this rallying neck winner. The win was her sixth in 31 career outings now for 108,460€ earned. The 4/10 favorite Famous Lady (5f Prodigious) was second, also trained by Baudron and reined by Gwenn Junod. 12/1 Fashion d’Heripre (5f Orlando Vici) was third.

Funky Girl

Extreme Star (6f Pin Quick-Nikka du Roncey) took the Prix de Livourne (purse 28,000€, 2925 meters, 12 starters) with trainer Michel Lenoir aboard for Ecurie de la Balagne, clocked in 1.13.4kr. She was off at 16/1 and bested 11/1 Dunion des Racques (7f Sam Bourbon) and 8.6/1 Estero (6g Village Mystic).

Extreme Star

The Quinte+ race of the day was a special one with a 1,000,000€ bonus opportunity to one exact order ticketholder. The exact order Quinte+ payoff was 17,354.60€ to 118 winning tickets.

The Q+ pool of the day of speed was 5,693,202€ and the total wagered on the race exceeded 10,707,000€. Angle of Attack (8g Scarlet Knight-Magyare Turgot) was the 1.13.8kr timed winner with Dominik Locqueneux the pilot for trainer Robert Bergh and owner Roland Wiksten.

The winner was off at 4.1/1 and he won for the fourth time in 10 starts in France. He now has career earnings of 317,850€. 5.9/1 Christo (8g Rieussec) was second for Michel Lenoir and 17/1 Black d’Arjeanc (9g Prince d’Espace) took third with Gabriel Gelormini up. 4.7/1 Creature Castelets and 31/1 Beach Julry captured the fourth and fifth place checks.

Angle of Attack

Lightly raced three year olds contested the Prix de Vichy (purse 45,000€, 2925 meters, LeTrot Regional Open) and it saw Hooker Mannetrot (3m Bird Parker-Aty Mannetrot) score impressively for trainer/driver Yannick Alain Briand, his second win in eight outings, for 38,070€ earned. Haka (3m Ready Cash-Un Fille d’Amour) was second for David Bekaert, trainer Kevin Vanderschelden and owner Jean Pierre Dubois. Third was Hidden Face (3f Brillantissime) for Kevin Dovienne and trainer Nicolas Ensch.

Hooker Mannetot Anders Lindqvist and friends at Cagnes sur Mer

LeTrot and PMU files/photos

by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink