Prix d'Amérique : Ready Cash won his second Prix d'Amérique!

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Prix d'Amérique : Ready Cash won his second Prix d'Amérique!

06/02/2012

Victory after a very rhythmic race where the decision was made in the home stretch...

Prix d'Amérique : Ready Cash won his second Prix d'Amérique!

Before the race, it was like an income year back. Ready Cash that is slow to enter the arena and walk away while his buddies marched past the stands, that we vaguely remembered something ...

And the star has finally presented.
First set by the rumblings of Vincennes, he ended up giving real signs of agitation. Immediate decision: 5 minutes from the start, the horse was brought back to the paddocks to be calmed down and taken quietly at first.
Nothing works, neither years nor attentions, the spectrum of stroke continues to haunt Ready Cash : when the pressure rises, the horse jumps automatically into the towers ...

As if the nervousness was not palpable enough, a false start has finished to tend all these people.
Quif de Villeneuve can not resist. He made a mistake a few meters after the official start. Within seconds, that was the end of dreams of double of the surprise-winner of Cornulier .

At head, things are much better and as expected: Timoko takes the train to their account. But no question of letting it fly or take even one step ahead: Punchy and Lisa America , soon imitated by Ready Cash and Maharajah , do not let it of an inch in the race.

Still leading to the entrance of the straight line, but under the threat of increasingly urgent of Maharajah , Timoko then sees a burst arrive upon him: The Best Madrik unleashed. Suddenly, taken out of the pack by Jean-Etienne Dubois , the 5-years-old has been around the squad in the turn up towards at the speed of an airplane! Visually impressive, the attack will move the other attackers
At this point, we know that the horse lost the race, it will not happen to contain the attacks. Especially a certain Ready Cash who manages to find the opening!

" I really thought that Frank would never come out, it was cooked this time" , has said Thierry Duvaldestin after the race.
"I could not do anything but wait, I was caught , confessed Franck Nivard after the race. But luckily, Matthieu Abrivard has shifted Private Love which had no chance, otherwise I not pass. "

Ready Cash released, the race is over.
Preserved for a good half of the race, the defending champion opens the gas, eliminates the opposition and wins.

With a reduction in mileage of 1'12 "00, the horse of Thierry Duvaldestin has equal the record of Offshore Dream . An impressive chrono especially when you know that the horse was shod in heavier!
"Yes, I chickened out, I preferred the safe side" , later admitted his coach. Whatever, the result is: 2nd Prix d'Amérique for Ready Cash , third for Franck Nivard , the fairytale continues therefore for the infernal duo.
Behind them, the surprising Roxane Griff has known to wait and take the second place.
The Best Madrik was rewarded for his incredible effort by an unexpected third place in front of Maharajah .
As for Timoko , it brings up the rear with a fifth place in form of promise: the Prix d'Amérique has not heard the last of him. See you in 2013!