Legend has it that a horse gained five handicaps in the same summer in San Sebastián, assuming a 17 kilos rise in … The scale of values. The unlikely, fantasy, became a reality with the fifth win so far this season of the great ‘Sanber’. See to believe, but Ramón Costa’s horse, trained in Donostia by Miguel Alonso, curled the curl in the most difficult yet, winning when his rider lost the whip.
The handicapper had punished him with a five kilos rise after his last victory, which joined the 12 that he already accumulated for his previous successes, left him in a value 34.5 that not even in his best days. In addition, it is not the same to win the second -part horses as those of First, where you find an invisible wall. But ‘Sanber’ jumped to Zubieta’s green willing to skip logic once again.
And that I had traveled a few days ago until the Senia, in Catalonia, to participate in an exhibition race for the enjoyment of its owners. And that yesterday did not have his inseparable Alejandro Gutiérrez, a partner in his four inks. And as if that were not enough, Mathias Lauron, who knew him yesterday, lost the whip when ‘The Whipmaster’ came to battle. But ‘Sanber’ did not need leather to hold a triumph to which it has become addicted. He built an insurmountable defense so that his rival did not pass him as much as the race would have lasted.
Condemned to show off a prohibitive value 40 from now on, their own is only given the taste of re -enacting the San Sebastian Grand Prix next Sunday. It would be the award for a dream season, which with permission from the champions of the big week, allows him to be this summer’s horse.
‘Spiritual’ no foul
The predictions did not fail and the rain marked the course of the day, which just fifteen days ago suffocated us in the Gold Cup, and yesterday reminded us that the weather has arrived. Fortunately, the chaparrons were increasingly intermittent and the most lazy audience was encouraged as the afternoon advanced, to end a good entry.
The races were conditioned by the water and an inexorably heavy track. The script demanded an adaptation ‘sine qua non’ to be able to obtain a result, because it was not enough to go well in soft. That was shipwrecked to most of the favorites, except ‘Spirituale’, which did not fail in the Donostia Kirola award, the appointment with the best program of the program.
It probably is no longer up to that mare that won the Poule last year, but it has enough quality to impose itself on a lot like yesterday. Ricardo Sousa, who knows his tricks, decided to cover it as much as possible and the strategy allowed him to obtain an incontestable triumph. ‘Amparito’, who confirmed his ascent, had launched himself brave for victory, but took his favorite to the favorite, who when he saw track, exceeded it with the ease of what he plays in another league.
This fall should be the protagonist in the reopening of the zarzuela, although competing only against Yeguas is not synonymous with a simple career, because there the brand new winner of the Basque Government ‘See The Dream’ will probably align. At the moment, yesterday he met again with the triumph after more than a year without going out in the photo.
The day was generous for those who risked at the box office, with surprises everywhere, although it was not easy to guess where they would arrive. Input, ‘Port Galland’ crushed the logic in a race where he ran four kilos crushed. Alicia Mayor was disassembled at the exit giving the scare of the day, being subsequently stepped on by her horse. The incident was in clavicle fracture and craniocerebral trauma, a lesser evil seen the spectacular of the accident.
