Jamun de Brion scores in Grand Prix Dynavena

Today’s Grand Prix Dynavena (purse 53,000€, 2625 meters distance handicap, 14 International starters ages 6-11) at Agen-La-Garenne went to 1.11.8kr timed and 1.1/1 odds harness racing favorite Jamin de Brion (6m Charly du Noyer-Venusa de Joudes-Quatre Juillet) reined by his owner/trainer Matthieu Abrivard.

The winner recorded his 11th career victory in 31 starts now for 242,260€ earned. Home a distant second was 7.3/1 Grand Trio Ludois (9g Booster Winner) with trainer Simon Laloum driving.

The 1.3/1 odds second choice Jeannette Priory (6f Tag Wood) was third for trainer/driver Tony LeBeller, ahead of 33/1 Generous Charm (9g Prodigious) with Patrice Gesret aboard for trainer Jacques Henri Treich.

Later this week the 2025 Grand National du Trot series will begin, starting at Amiens. The field lineup follows:

The GNT leg one at Amiens on March 5th is the first of 14 stops for the classic series.

In separate news Go On Boy was invited to the ’25 Elitloppet, their first invitation. The Romain Derieux trainee should be a leading contender.

It was also announced that Horsy Dream’s injuries continue and he’s out of action until next Winter Meet.

The Winter Meet provided a highlight for horses like Hirondelle du Rib that was exceptional in the 24-25 Winter Meet.

The eight year mare advanced her career earnings to almost 1.1 million euro.

Mares were also highlighted when Joumba de Guez took the Prix de Paris with Jean Michel Bazire driving.

This was JMB’s eighth victory in the Marathon Race, the previous victory in 2019 with Belina Josselyn. Joumba won 617,000€ at the Winter Meet.

Winter Meet stats are shown below as reported by Gaet.

This Winter 218,000 spectators attended the meeting at the Vincennes racecourse and therefore an increase of 25% was recorded compared to the 2023-2024 edition. The fourteen Sundays were lived live by 160,000 people (plus 37.7%). A positive year, therefore, given that such figures had not been reached for 10 years. Logically this had an impact on the stakes at the racecourse, with an increase of 3%.This is not the case, however, at the level of SMEs, which recorded a drop of 5.2% (France and international) at the local level, only in France, the drop to 3.6%called the evente block (tierce-quate-quinte). The average turnover of the fourteen Sundays was 5.9 million, the worst figure since the end of the health emergency. For the 2021-2022 meeting, the average was 7.7 million and since then, meeting after meeting, it has continued to fall.

For the Open races (international and European), visitors won 66 races, their new record, for a total win of 3,992,000 euros, their fourth best turnover.

Trotteur Francais, Agen-La-Garenne, Gaet files/photos

by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink