Balou du Paou wins at Cordemais

March 18, 2018 – Today’s Prix de la Ville de Malville raced at Hippodrome Cordemais (monte, purse €25,000. 2825 meters.15 European starters) went to 28/1 Balou du Paou (7g Quinoa du Gers-Pia Rosa) with jockey Mlle Anne Barthelemy in the irons for harness racing breeder/owner/trainer Yves J. Le Bezvoet.

32/1 Bandolino de Leau (7g Echo) took the place spot for Benjamin Rochard, ahead for 3.4/1 Ambre Carisaie (8g Vivaldi de Chenu) ridden by Mlle Ludivine Drapier. Race time was 1.15.4kr.

This day at Chartres was the Prix Brette Immobilier (purse €25,000, 2800 meters, 14 European starters) and the 1.14.7kr timed winner was 14/1 Suricato Jet (7m Ideale Luis-Zoy Ami) with Nicolas Roussel up for trainer Vincent Lacroix and Scuderia Dante SM of Italy.

1.4/1 favorite Casting de Chenu (6m Baccarat du Pont) was next for Tony LeBeller and 11/1 Riviera As (8f Cantab Hall-Fortune As) handled by Romain Derieux was third. Melanie Gibon trains this one for Ecurie Z of Belgium.

Friday action was at Lisieux and included the monte Prix du Conseil Regional de Normandie (purse €25,000, 2725 meters, 17 starters) and that winner was 1.15.6kr timed and 1.4/1 odds Caban Prior (6g Sancho Panca-Fita Prior) in rein to Aurelien Desmarres. Ecurie Sylvain Demarres trains and owns Caban Prior. 3.8/1 Beau du Grimout was a closing second for Yoann Lebourgeois and 17/1 Colibri Madrik took the third spot for Mathilde Collet.

The Prix de la Societe des Courses de Lisieux (purse €35,000, 2725 meters, 18 starters) went to 3.2/1 Comte du Vivier (6g Prince Gede-Jonque du Vivier) timed in 1.16.7kr and reined by Francois Lecanu. Mlle. Aude Lemoine trains this winner. 12/1 Black Charm (7m Prodigious) took second for Franck Anne and trainer Eric Martin, ahead of third finishing 41/1 Universal Cat (10g Cygnus d’Odyssee) driven by trainer Matthieu Varin. 1.4/1 favorite Chicago Blues was fifth.

Thomas H. Hicks