Two E-3 Finals and the STL Gold highlighted the Romme card this day.
The E-3 for colts (Gr, I Interational, purse to winner 84,700ā¬, 1640 meters autostart) went to 10.5/1 Fifty Four (3m Fourth Dimension-Backfire-Offshore Dream) timed in 1.10.8kr with Ken Ecce aboard for trainer Tomas Malmqvist. The winner now has a 6-0-1 slate in eight career starts. The 36.5/1 outsider Frank SH (3m Fourth Dimension-Stargirl-Juliano Star) rallied for second driven by trainer Fredrik Persson. Third home was 4.4/1 odds SG Dracarys (3m Bold Eagle-Riva del Sole-Gentle Star) with Orjan Kihlstrom the pilot for conditioner Roger Walmann. The sire Fourth Dimension (2015, Chapter Seven-Corozon Blue Chip) is off a fine siring start in Sweden.
The companion E-3 for fillies (Gr. I International, purse to winner 84,700ā¬, 1640 meters autostart) saw 31.2/1 A Teaser (3f Flocki dāAurcy-Escada Arvells-Ganymede) rally to win in a three way photo timed in 1.10.9kr/ Erik Adielsson teamed the Mattias Djuse trainee that won for the fourth time in 12 career appearances. Mattias Djuse teamed second finishing 5.6/1 Larah Westwood (3f The Bank-MT Heliconia-Quite Easy) and 1.8/1 odds favorite Kinglet Bird (3f Nuncio-Vladzia Mauzon-Coktaill Jet) was third for Orjan Kihlstrom and trainer Daniel Reden. The winning sire is a son of Ready Cash-Idee Lara that was foaled in 2015 and earned 151,450ā¬ in a brief career in which he won six of 11 starts before export from FR.
On the undercard Alessandro Gocciadoro won a pair, first with Charmant de Zack (5m Vivid Wise As-Matina Grif-Varenne) timed in 1.11.0kr over 2650 meters in the Gold Division test worth 12,705ā¬to the winner. This was Zackās 11th career win in 40 starts. Global Badman and Mister Hercules trailed the winner.
Gocciadoroās other win was with 2.6/1 Donāt Say Gar (4f Varenne-Revirabi Gar-Pine Chip) in a Silver Division test over 2140 meters autostart. She was clocked in 1.11.5kr to earn the 10,558ā¬ winnerās prize. She recorded career victory 10 in 24 starts.
by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink