Keep Going – 240,000€ Criterium Continental victory

Today’s co-featured Criterium Continental – Amerique Q3 (Gr. I International, purse 240,000€, 2100 meters autostart, 18 four year old starters) saw the game 2.8/1 odds Keep Going (4m Follow You-Discovery Bond-Royal Dream) prevail to gain an Amerique ’25 ticket.

Timed in 1.09.7kr off a quick pace (the speed rate at the 1000 meters to go mark was 1.08.3kr) the winner was drive by his trainer Mathieu Mottier for owner Jose Davet.

The Jean Philippe Dubois bred stallion now has nine career wins in 32 starts for 483,620€ earned. East Asia (4f Ready Cash-Elvezia) was a closing second at 3.8/1 odds with Bjorn Goop at the lines for trainer Alessandro Gocciadoro and owner Jean Pierre Barjon.

The US-bred Crown (4m Chapter Seven-Amour Heiress) took third at 16/1 odds with Francois Lagadeuc up for trainer Daniel Reden and SRK Stable. Ksar (4m Follow You-Tes Amours) closed well for fourth at 12/1 with Matthieu Abrivard driving for trainer/owner Emanuel Varin who bought this horse early in his career for over 400,000€ from breeder Jean Pierre Dubois.

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The next three finishers were 11/1 Kana de Beylev (4f Express Jet), Global Etalon (4m Brillantissime) at 71/1 odds and seventh finishing Executiv ER (4m Face Time Bourbon).

Follow You (2015 male by Ready Cash-Mara Bourbon) sired the first and fourth place finishers and was bred by Jean Pierre Dubois’ Ecurie Dream With Me and earned 335,050€ with a 1.11.7kr record in the 2018 Prix Henri Cravoisier.

Trotteur Francais, Paris-Vincennes files/photos

by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink