Ginevra wins 112th Hungarian Trotting Derby

Today’s  Kincsem Park featured 112th  Magyar Ugetoderby (purse to winner 14,000,000Huf – 39,606€, 2500 meters autostart, nine starters four year olds open) saw 10.8/1 odds Ginevra (4f Owen CR-Nana-Tony Oaks) prevail coast to coast  timed in 1.19.4kr for trainer/driver Imre Fazekas and owner C’est la Guerre.

This was Ginevra’s second career victory now for 10,785,000Huf earned. Fazekas’ daughter Andrea Fazekas (am) was second driving Get Lucky (4m Chelsea Boko-Sultana Jet-Igor Font) at 7.7/1 odds  for Friends I and  trainer Gyorgy Horvath, Andrea’s husband. Third was 32.6/1 odds Gaya T Boko (4f  Chelsea Boko-JasmineF Boko-Trixton) for trainer/driver Tibor Hajnal. 

What  a program this was today and what an accomplishment for the Fazekas clan that is well deserved. I remember Nana very well too..great mare. 

The Kincsem undercard included the  G Denes Gyorgy Zsuti Es Gen Zoltan Memorial (purse 700,000Huf, 1900 meters autostart, seven starters ages 5-8) where the Stefan Melander bred Steet Genius (7m Uncle Lasse-Dats Veronica-Credit Winner) scored in 1.16.1kr for driver Josip Vujkovic-Lamic.

The Prolongo III owned and Jozsef Rutkai trainer campaigner now sports 16 wins in HU from 33 starts for  6.412,000HUF earned. He was off at 4.8/1 odds and defeated Coach Degli Dei (8f Brillantissime-Un Foi Axe-Love You) that Goran Zolnaji reined and Fendi (5f Oasis Bi-Celebrity Venus-Angus Hall) with Christoph Schwarz up. 

Next up was the Connollys Red Mills Grof Estrhazy Miklos Memorial (purse 3,000,000Hufm 1800 meters autostart, eight starters three yar olds) where 6.4/1  odds Hermes History (3g Who’s Who-Digital History-Super Photo Kosmos)  scored for driver/trainer Juhasz Balazs in 1.15.3kr.  

This  Gyorgy Pekker bred performer has two  career wins in seven starts for 4.360,000Huf earned. The 1.4/1odds favorite Hidalgo TIM (3g Il Duce Boko-Victoria TIM-Incredible Cole) was second  for trainer/driver Imre Fazekas followed by Hermesz (3m Unno del Duomo-Unika Vik-Cantab Hall) with Gyorgy Horvath up for trainer Andor Angyal. 

Bonaparte Boss (9g Napoleon-Nikita-Crown Sweep)  took the  Sinka Jozsef Memorial (purse 1,200,000Huf, 1900 meters autostart, eight starters ages 7-13) at 2.2/1 odds for trainer/driver Veljko Mazsity and owner Hico Versenyistalllo.

This was his 23rd career  victory in 66 starts for 31,873,000Huf earned. Race time was 1.14.5kr. On May 9 Boss won in 1.13.0kr. Second today was El Valle Sagrado (7g Nuncio-Utrubamba-Maharajah) for Attila Budai followed by Digital Races (9m Super Photo Kosmos-Paired-Scarlet Knight) with Istvan Papp up for Prolongo III/Jozsef  Rutkai. 

Finally, the Pannonia DIJ (purse 3,000,000Huf, 1800 meters autostart, seven starts  ages  5-6) went to1.14.0kr timed and 1.6/1 odds favorite Enjoy (6m Maharajah-Journey Boko-Zola Boko) reunited with his successul former primary  driver Imre Fazekas.

The Prolongo III/Jozsef Rutkai owned/trainer speedster recovered from a period of rank rough gaitedness to sweep past all rivals and drew clear for an easy 1.14.0kr timed score. He now sports 20 wins in his HU career in 35 starts for lifetime earnings of 41,369,524Huf. Home second was 5.6/1 Eternity Bar (6f Maharajah-Salome’ Bar-Ganymede) for driver Krisztrina Kamaromi and Prolongo III/Jozsef Rutkai. By the was Prolongo Import Export Kft bred both of these horses. Finishing third was 7.8/1 Friday Night (5m Tuonoblu Rex-Sultana Jet-Igor Font) with Christoph  Schwarz up for trainer Emil Csordas. Gyorgy Horvath bred this one and drove/trains/owns fourth finishing Fabrice (5g Maximus Lindy-Noraville-Tony  Oaks) that Prolongo  also bred.

Kincsem  Park files/photos 

Thomas H. Hicks