Idao De Tillard (Severino), the 2-1 favorite, with driver Clement Duvaldestin in the sulky, captured Europe’s biggest harness racing event, trotting a mile rate of 1:55.1 to win the $1 million Prix d’Amerique on a pleasant Sunday afternoon, Jan. 28, 2024. Racing with shoes on the front end, and none on the back, the 6-year-old,
On North American harness racing tracks it’s all about speed over a mile trip, in Australia it’s a mix of both standing start and mobile features across a range of track sizes, in New Zealand it could be about an extreme two-mile contest or a grass track race featuring non-race winners and in Europe the
The 1.1/1 odds favorite Filwell (9g Qwerty-Regence-Insert Gede) played give and go with 1.8/1 Homer de Fromentel (7g Vanishing Point-Rose de Fromentel) before inching ahead in the final strides to win the Prix Djerid (monte Gr. III, purse 90,000€, 2700 meters with nine starters ages 6-11) at Paris-Vincennes, France. Race time was 1.13.0kr as Camille