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There is just over two months before the $1,000,000 MGM Yonkers International Trot on September 7 at MGM Yonkers Raceway and the connections of 2023 harness racing winner Vivid Wise As (Yankee Glide) have accepted an invitation for the 10-year-old to defend his title. Somewhat lightly raced since his U.S. victory and unplaced in the […]
Vivid Wise As (9m Yankee Glide-Temple Blue Chip-Cantab Hall) secured victory in the Gran Premio Dell Nazioni (Gr.I Grand Prix of Nations, purse 220,000€, 2250 meters autostart) with a gate to wire journey for Matthieu Abrivard. Race time was a rated 1.13.4kr over the Milano La Maura 1050 meter course. Off at 1.7/1 favorite odds […]
Vivid Wise A (Yankee Glide) captured the $1 million Yonkers International Trot in a front-stepping, monster performance for harness racing driver Matthieu Abrivard on a balmy afternoon at Yonkers Raceway Saturday (Sept. 9) over a rain-soaked surface. Trainer Alessandro Gocciadoro had removed the 9-year-old gelding’s shoes just prior to the 1 1/4 mile contest, a […]
Italy has played a prominent role in the $1,000,000 MGM Yonkers International Trot since the race was revived from a 19-year hiatus in 2015. First Twister Bi arrived in 2017 and smashed the world record at the 1 1/4 mile distance and two years later Zacon Gio was equally impressive in victory. In 2023 a […]
The grand champion Vivid Wise As (9m Yankee Glide-Temple Blue Chip-Cantab Hall) held gamely after a front-end journey to win the Gr. I International Gran Premio Gaetano Turilli (purse 154,000€, 2100 meters autostart) clocked in 1.12.7kr. Off at 1.63/1 odds the Matthieu Abrivard driven and Alesssandro Gocciadoro trained trotteur advanced his life earnings to over […]
The great Italian veteran Vivid Wise As (9m Yankee Glide-Temple Blue Chip) received an Elitloppet 2023 invite to join Etonnant, Horsy Dream and San Moteur. Owned by Scuderia Bivans Srl and trained by Alessandro Gocciadoro, the career winner of 2,719,788€ most recently won the Criterium de Vittesse de la Cote d’Azur at Cagnes sur Mer […]
If there is a paradise for harness racing horses anywhere, then Potenza OM (Yankee Slide) is there. Indeed, in recent weeks, one of the most important mares of the last twenty years for the Italian trot, capable of incursions into French land with important victories that we will analyze below. The cause of her death […]
Describing one of the best European harness racing trotting horses in a simple article where space is always an adversary becomes an operation at the limit of practicability. Here we will try to draw some descriptive lines of a general nature, concerning what is currently considered one of the most important European horses of at […]
Vivid Wise As (8m Yankee Glide-Temple Blue Chip) won today’s Gr. II International Grand Prix du Department des Alpes Maritimes (Challenge du Trot a Grande Vitesse, purse 180,000€, 1609 meters autostart) at the Hippodrome Cote D’Azur parked the distance and with Matthieu Abrivard aboard. The Alessandro Gocciadoro trainee is owned by Scuderia Bivans Srl and […]
