With Horsey Dream, the dream continues…

The weekend was full of lessons on the Parisian ashes two weeks before the Prix d’Amérique. In response to Idao de Tillard, winner of the Prix de Croix, on Saturday at Paris-Vincennes, Horsy Dream took full advantage of the withdrawal of the Swedish Calgary Games champion (throat infection) from the Prix de Belgique, the last qualifying tournament for the harness world (January 29), to impose myself a little more and mark the mood in connection with the event at the end of January.

Carrot as a reward

Horse Dream trainer Pierre Belloche continues to dream of his protégé’s great performance in Group II: “When I met him at home, two weeks later I told his owner that I have a Prix d’Amérique horse. » A parting word when indicating the path traveled by the horse from the stables of the Cabinet. “Winning the Prix de Belgique while shod is unusual,” continues the 41-year-old coach, who hurried to the stable dining room after the prize was presented to find carrots to eat and give to his champion. “I got into the habit of rewarding him for continuing to love what he does,” he says. “He is an extraordinary horse, top. It was luxurious,” notes, for his part, Eric Ruffin, driver of Horsey Dream.

If the winner’s entourage showed the smile of great days, Jean-Michel Baudouin, it was much more difficult for him to express his feelings after the disqualification of the second place after the investigation of Yrondel Sibay. “This is the life of racing,” the developer cries out, disappointed in his son Louis, an unfortunate racer. But delighted with the Décoloration qualification, which finally inherits the top runner-up. “All is not lost with the Hirondelle,” warns a stakeholder who counts on the 10 percent allowance given to 6-year-old trotters in the Prix d’Amérique to qualify for the narrow qualification. Otherwise, she will go to the Luxembourg Prize the day before. »