Go On Boy lands third Grand Prix de Wallonie

Veteran Go On Boy (10m  Password-Balginette-Hasting)engineered  a front end victory in today’s Grand Prix de Wallonie (Gr I International UET Elite Circuit 14^th leg, purse150,000€, 2840 meters autostart, 10 aged starters clocked in 1.11.7kr.

This was his third triumph in the GP Wallonie. Off at 4.5/1 odds, second choice, the Romain Derieux  trained and reined champion now has earned 3,076,697€ from 16 career victories in  61 starts with 45 placings in the top five. Caroline Logier owns Go On Boy that was bred in France by Jean-Pierre and Pierre-Emmanuel Mary. Today’s great win moved him to the top of the UET Elite Circuit points board.

Finishing second today was 34.1/1 odds Jingle du Pont (7g Niky-Tina du Pont) with trainer Nicolas Bazire up for Richard Padovani followed by 20.2/1 Krack Time Atout (6m Face Time Bourbon-Topaze d’Atout) with Franck Nivard at the lined for conditioner Sebastien Guarato and owner Philippe Barbe. The 13.7/1 Frank Gio (5m Face Time Bourbon-Zarina Gio) took fourth after a big run with Matthieu Abrivard driving for trainer Guarato and Scuderia  Bivans with 55.8/1 Harley Gema (9f Bold Eagle-Reedite Gede-Buvetier d’Aunou) fifth for driver Alan Gendrot and trainer/owner Marc Sassier. The 1.5/1 odds favorire Inexess Bleu was out of it early  with a miscue. Falco Killer Gar at 105.7/1 and 20,3/1 Cobra Killer Gar completed the top seven finishers.

Replay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uheD6Gea8FI&list=PLEJLZ85Bo1TQ&index=2

Go On Boy’s three GP Wallonie victories are shown below.

On the undercard US Darby (3m Tony Gio-Princess Kronos) trounced rivals to win the Grand Prix Paul Hayen  Final (24,000€ purse, 2300 meters autostart) for Jos Verbeek driving for trainer Vincent Martens and Bruni Racing. He has now earned 108,616€. He was clocked in 1.12.7kr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXG-ezXEYo&list=PLEJLZ85Bo1TQ&index=3

Earlier Moretime du Campus (4m Face Time Bourbon-Fortune du Taco) won the Grand Prix Paul Hayen Four Year Old Classic (34,200€ purse, 2300 meters autostart) clocked in 1.12.9kr withChrsitophe Martens up for trainer Vincent Martens and BVBA Campus RPF. He has earned 87,798€.

 

Hippodrome d Wallonie, ZE Turf, Paris-Turf files/photos

by Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink