Another big win for Vivid Wise As

Vivid Wise As (7m Yankee Glide-Temple Blue Chip-Cantab Hall) easily took the Gran Premio Della Nazioni (purse 220,000€, 2250 meters autostart) with a front end journey engineered by reinsman Matthieu Abrivard, trainer Sebastian Guarato and Scuderia Bivans Srl. The race time was 1.13.4kr over the Milano course. He raced barefoot as did the next two finishers Zaccaria Barf (6m Ready Cash-Filanda-Lindy Lane) for Alessandro Gocciadoro and Rushmore Face (8g Joke Face-Ms Stone-Enjoy Lavec). Fourth was Vitruvio (7m Adrian Chip-Tigre AM-Zebu).

The same day, at Caen, was the Gr. III Prix de la Ville de Caen (purse 65,000€, 4400 meters distance handicap, International 5-10 year olds, 18 starters) with victory to the 25-meter handicapped and 4.6/1 odds Fakir du Lorault (6m Vaillant Cash-Native du Lorault) for driver Francois Lecanu and trainer Mickael Charvel. Second home was 9/1 Echo de Chanecy (7g Quinoa du Gers-Nina d’Urzy) for Tony Le Beller. Third was 2/1 odds and 50-meter handicapped Bugsy Malone (10g Ready Cash-Night Captain) with Franck Nivard aboard for owner/trainer Philippe Allaire. Bloomer (10g Niky) at 40/1 odds and the 50-meter handicapped Carat Williams at 13/1 odds completed the top five.

Promising two year olds contested the Prix des Primeveres at Caen (purse 19,000€, 2450 meters, two year olds) and victory was earned by 2.6/1 Jamiroquai (2m Charly du Noyer-Deep Purple) handled by  Franck Nivard and breeder/owner/trainer Philippe Allaire. This was his second win in as many starts now for 13,950€ earned. Jananais (2m Charly du Noyer-This Lovely d’Am) took second for Cedric Buerel, trainer Louis Baudron and owner Mauricette De Sousa. Third was Just One More (2f Goetmals Wood-Encore Plus) handled by Tony Le Beller for trainer J.A. Hernandez-Navarro and owner Jean Pierre Dubois.

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by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink