Gamin Jaba wins for Bazire

Gamin Jaba (8g Kesaco Phedo-Otika Vita) overcame a 25-meter handicap at 10/1 odds to take the Prix de Langeais (purse 75,000€, 2850 meters with 15 starters ages 7-11) at Vincennes.

Trainer Jean Michel Bazire (JMB) teamed the 1.12.1kr timed winner to his 16^th career victory in 65 starts for 447,030€. Gilberte Bazire bred and owns Gamin Jaba that defeated 8.8/1 odds He And Me (7m Bird Parker-Beauty Lady) reined by Matthieu Abrivard. He too overcame a 25-meter penalty and is trained by Michel Lenoir for Ecurie Thierry Guibert. The 13/1 Hurella (7f Offshore Dream-Urilla) was third driven by Yoann Lebourgeois for trainer JMB and Ecurie Moureaux As. Grace du Digeon was fourth at 7.3/1 with Eric Raffin at the lines.

Sunday’s Prix de L’ile-de-France (monte Gr. I International, purse 200,000€, 2175 meters, 10 starters ages 4-11) at Vincennes now has 10 horses engaged as shown below. Flamme du Goutier is a likely favorite with Mathieu Mottier the jockey for Ecurie Saint Martin and trainer Thierry Duvaldestin. Flamme was fifth in the recent Cornulier Prize and the nine-year old mare now has life earnings of 1,636,955€.

In Italy (Milano) the fast Cosmo Spritz (6m Igor Font-Nebraska Jet-Supergill) scored gate to wire in the Premio Superbo Capar (purse 13,200€, 1650 meters) in a sharp 1.09.8kr (mile rate 1:52.31) reined by Andrea Farolfi. This was his 16^th career victory and lowered his speed badge by two full seconds. He ias the fastest and richest offspring of his dam.

This week it was reported that Korean (1998m, Dahir de Prelong-Calmness-Robespierre) has died. The winner of 522,657€ tool a speed record of 1.12.6kr. He was most known as the sire of Sebastian K (2006m Korean-Gabriella K-Probe) the winner of US$2,973,252 (US$2.29 million earned Internationally, with a record of 1:49.0 for the mile taken on a 1000-meter track at Pocono Downs, when under the care of Ake Svanstedt. He had three seasons each with earnings over US$650,000. Sebastian K sired the US Breeders Crown winner Next Level Stuff, the 2017 foal of Nantab. And the career winner of US$857,970 with a speed record of 1;50.4 over a mile track.

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by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink