Arrival of the quinté : 4 – 16 – 6 – 9 – 12
Reserved for trotters aged 7 to 10, the Prix de Sillé-le-Guillaume, the quinté of the day, was contested on the selective course of 2,850 m. Favorite of the sixteen competitors, Epsom d’Herfraie (# 4) got the job done with ease. After ensuring his start, the resident of Jean-Michel Baudouin secured the best from the descent before widening the gap on his opponents from the entry of the straight line. This 7-year-old gelding offers a nice birthday present to Éric Raffin and his trainer who respectively celebrated their 40 and 49 years the day before. The latter told Equidia: “I am delighted especially since he was only at 80% of his possibilities. This race will have done him the greatest good. “
Shown barefoot on the forelegs for the first time in his career, Equinoxe (n ° 16) took second place when he was still among the last at the entrance to the finish line. His end of the race allowed him to delight this accessit to Eileen (n ° 6), constantly noticed in the leading group. The quartet is completed by the enormous outsider (90/1), Concerto Cointerie (n ° 9) who is very little ahead Ezalyo Smart (n ° 12) and C D (n ° 3). To note that God from the machine (13) and Eadshot Josselyn (# 11) gave signs of weariness as they entered the finish line as they were at the forefront while Eliot from Ambri (n ° 10) was penalized in the descent for non-compliant paces.
All of our prognosticators as well as our Synthesis indicated the trifecta out of order. Stéphan Flourent proposed, for his part, the trifecta in order in only three horses.
