Prix d'Amérique: For Timoko, the hard left to do ...

It will be measured for the first time to his elders.

Renowned for its ability to tighten the race, the horse is it provided a chance so strong?
 For Timoko  is the moment of truth. In the Prix d'Amérique , the resident Richard Westerink will be measured for the first time to his elders.

"Timoko alternated pace and trot on a light rhythm for a half hour. I found it very flexible, extra .(...). It will work on the straight line in the forest. Of course journalists will be there: if it is not used to the cameras now it never will. "
Spread the word: Timoko is okay. The words of Richard Westerink  and the images of Timoko  to work reveal the most forward to being already d-day. 10 wins including the Prix  Albert Viel , the Critérium des 3 Ans , the Prix de Sélection , the Critérium des 4 Ans  and the Critérium Continental . The Prix d'Amérique ? A dream of course.

But has Timoko  the means to achieve the feat? To win the race for only 5 years? Nothing is less certain...

Tactical and disease

Timoko  always behaves like a steamroller. He always waits for the rise of Vincennes to tighten the race and use his opponents. A style that made ​​his reputation as a hard horse but it has its limits: how long the horse's physical will be able to cash this race tactics?
 And do not forget that Timoko comeback.
 Hit for Lyme disease (a bacterium transmitted by ticks that causes symptoms of dermatological, neurological and joint), the horse has not run in 2011-2012 meeting.
 "I  accused the coup , explained his coach at the time. I have a only sick horse, and that it falls on Timoko. (...) But we must stay positive in any so. Otherwise, it is better to stop the trade. "
Re-established more quickly than expected, the crack does is back in the Critérium Continental , after two and a half months of rest. Although he won the race with the way, even if its resilience leaves no surprise, even though about Westerink are rather reassuring, one can legitimately wonder about the shape. Since his race tactics, a short Timoko tired does not he run the risk of exploding in flight? Especially given the profile of his opponents ...

The engine will be enough there?

Faced with blockers of the class of Ready Cash  and horses as hard as him (Quif de Villeneuve  and Maharajah ), or as finishers to Sévérino , the steamroller tactics may not be enough.
 If Timoko  took the lead in the rise as usual, it is clearly likely to be a little short to finish and make adjustments in the home stretch ...

 Except that this horse has a motor and extraordinary endurance, a physical condition that allows him to cash in efforts falter. Difficult, therefore, to bring in the analytical standard.Her vet told himself amazed by her respiratory capacity and recovery. Add a moral and a concrete framework for optimal training, and you're a machine set to trot to perfection, an ogre able to swallow anyone Especially since it will run without pressure in the Prix d'Amérique !Its real purpose, it is the 2013 and 2014 editions. But if he manages to make the hole in the climb, if Ready Cash , Maharajah , Sévérino  and other Quif de Villeneuve  reluctant to discover and let him go too far, the steamroller might take a little ahead of his program...

 The hypothesis is attractive, the reality quite different: for Timoko , the harder still to do. But hardness is precisely its radius.

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