After Varenne (2001/2002), Offshore Dream (2007/2008), Ready Cash (2011/2012), Bold Eagle (2016/2017) and Face Time Bourbon (2020/2021), a superlative Idao de Tillard scored his sixth double of the third millennium in the Prix d’Amerique. Trainer Thierry Duvaldestin had announced his pupil without shoes for the first time in an attempt to achieve the leap in quality that Severino’s son had lacked in recent outings, but the speciality of French trainers is to always manage to arrive with their horse in peak condition at the appointment that counts and so it was for Idao that Clement Duvaldestin, also on his second success in the queen race of Europe, led in the second/third trip on the outside before producing the decisive acceleration. Average of 1.11.1 for the winner. In second place was a superlative Just Love You, in third Go On Boy who on the immediate eve of the race had become the betting favourite.
The Italians were also unlucky victims of an unhappy start. Dimitri Ferm made a mistake at the halfway point, while Ampia Mede Sm tried a bet in the third lane, but failed to come forward.
