Fllamme du Goutier wins Prix Isara at Vincennes

Flamme du Goutier (7f Ready Cash-Utopie du Goutier) overcame a 25-meter handicap to win the Prix Isara (purse 90,000€, 2850 meters distance handicap for 4-10 year olds) timed in 1.13.5kr. Theo Duvaldestin teamed the now 15-time winner of 1,198,740€ that is owned by Ecurie Saint Martin and trained by Thierry Duvaldestin.

She was off as the 8/10 favorite, and she held off second finishing 20/1 Flaya Kalouma (7f Royal Dream-Nalinotte du Rib) with trainer Gabriel Angel Pou Pou driving. The 4.8/1 odds and 25-meter handicapped Duel du Gers (9g Quaker Jet-La Chasse Verte) rallied for third with trainer Matthieu Abrivard aboard.

Next up for the fast class performers is the Prix Credit Agricole Loire (Gr. III, purse 100,000€, 2650 meters distance handicap) to be raced October 30 at Saint Galmier. The list of starters follows.

Earlier this week it was announced that Daviidson du Pont (9m Pacha du Pont-Laguna du Pont) would miss the Vincennes winter meet due to injury. This 17-time career winner of 2,274,710€ won the Prix d’Amerique on January 30, 2022, clocked in 1.11.3kr. He was second in the prior year Prix d’Am and he won the 2020 Prix de France in 1.11.1kr.

In Sweden it was announced that trainer Timo Nurmos was making a racing recovery plan for Calgary Games, and it is hoped that he could be a Prix d’Amerique 2023 performer. The five-year-old son of Readly Express-Olympia Tilly-Lindy Lane has nine career victories in as many starts.

In Italy it was announced that NBA MVP Nicolas Jokic has acquired Enzo Jet (2m Maharajah-Uriba Jet-From Above-Isolde Jet-Supergill), a three-time winner in as many starts. It was reported that Alessandro Gocciadoro will train this prospect.

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by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink