“Ah yes, Jag de Bab El Oued (sic), he was a great champion! » Mohamed is what we call a “weekend racer”, anything but knowledgeable. Those for whom the races came down, and still come down to, the Sunday trifecta. However, when we talk about Jag de Bellouet with the octogenarian at the time of the Prix de Cornulier scheduled for this Sunday (start at 3:15 p.m.), the reaction is immediate. Even if champions had previously left their mark, the French, fond of good stories, were looking for a darling since the illustrious Ourasi, hero of the end of the 1980s and the beginning of those of 1990.
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Nearly twenty years after the “Lazy King”, the general public became acquainted in 2004 with Jag, quickly nicknamed “the Cannibal”. That year, the “gifted but complicated” competitor, according to his owner Michel Gallier, flew through the World Championship of mounted trotting, before finishing third in the Prix d’Amérique and making the Prix de Paris his own in the process. The machine is launched, and the legend begins to be written.
