Thomas H. Hicks

Arqana-Trot hosted its Vente d’Ete and Cabourg harness racing summer sale Friday (June 28) and results improved from 2023 due to a pair to real toppers. There were 158 lots catalogued with 106 sold for gross sales of 2,173,000€ versus 1,386,500€ last year when 98 lots were sold.

Fast class trotting action for harness racing four-year-olds took place this day at Modena’s Ghirlandia Ippodromo. The Gran Premio Unicone Europa Filly (purse total 77,000€, 1600 meters autostart) went to 3.4/1 odds East Asia (4f Ready Cash

Harness racing three year olds were on stage today at Napoli for the Gran Premio Citta’ di Napoli filly and colt divisions. The filly division (purse total 66,000€, 1600 meters autostart) saw 6.8/1 odds Fantastica Doda (3f Maharajah -Venere Degli Dei-Mago d’Amore) score in a sharp 1.11.8kr with Santo Mollo on the reins. She now shows 96,136€ earned. Fisic du Rol (3f

Today’s (June 30) Trophee Vert eighth leg was the Grand Prix de la Ville de Sable Sur Sarthe in France (purse 50,000€, 2800 meters distance handicap, 18 starters ages 6-10) was raced on the turf.

Today’s Gr. II Grand Prix du Conseil Municipal (purse 120,000€, 2950 meters volte start, eight starters) saw Eric Raffin direct the front trotting victory for 3.8/1 odds It’s A Dollarmaker (6m Saxo de Vandel -Salt Lake City-Insert Gede-LA Star) that stopped the clock at 1.12.3kr.

Three groupe level races highlighted today’s Enghien-Soisy program. The first was the Prix de Louvre (Gr. III, purse 80,000€, 2875 meters volte start, four- and five-year-olds) with victory in a close photo to 11/1 odds Just A Midi (5m Captain Crazy -Buse de la Marelle) with Sebastien Baude driving for trainer Fabrice Souloy and owner Frederic Duvivier.

Stefan Melander’s Click Bait (8m Cantab Hall -Fun at Parties-Lindy Lane) at 6.6/1 odds rallied late three wide to sail past 2.97/1 Hail Mary (8m Googoo Gaagaa -Dreams-Victory Dream) to win the Arjangs Stora Sprinterlopp today (July 13) (500,000SEK to winner, 1640 meters autostart, 10 starters) at Arjang in Sweden.

Don Fanucci Zet (8m Hard Livin -Kissed By The West-Western Terror) survived a death seat struggle with Denver Gio and then passed the rival finally holding off Castor The Star to win today’s St. Michel Prize at the fast Mikkeli track.

The Prix de Milan (Gr. III, purse 90,000€, 2150 meters autostart, 16 European four-year-olds) highlighted the Saturday card (July 20) at Enghien-Soisy in France and it went to rallying 6.2/1 Edgar Saba (4g Exploit Caf -Saba del Ronco) reined by Gabriele Gelormini for Valporino SRL and trainer H.E. Bondo.

Two-year-olds contested the Enghien-Soisy Prix de la Porte de Choisy (purse 33,000€, 2250 meters volte start, nine two-year old starters) with victory to 5/10 favorite Monzon Normand (2m