The big day is approaching, preparations are in full swing for the Turin Sunday. Derby, Oaks, Grand Circuit Uet Final, but there is also a final for four-year-olds all to be raced and won, also because historically, what can be considered a true European Championship for four-year-olds becomes a springboard for the winner towards ambitious targets such as d for example the Prix d’Amerique. In the roll of honour of this race there are names that give you goosebumps just reading them and that we then often find in the,lsts of winners of the major continental races. There are countless examples and it is worth remembering a few of them.
Face Time Bourbon, for example, in 2019 won this race at Vermo in Finland, in thrilling fashion. Only a few months later he would triumph on the Parisian cinders, repeating the feat in 2021.
Readly Express won the 2016 edition in Paris and two years later triumphed again in the most important race. The year before it had been Bold Eagle who triumphed. Sebastien Guarato’s trainee went to Wolvega in the Netherlands to write his name into the roll of honour before going on to triumph in the Amerique in 2016 and 2017, here too the first success came only a few weeks after victory in the Uet final for four-year-olds. And what about a certain Maharajah (the prince of European stallions this season) who won the 2009 final and then the Amerique in 2014. Going further back we find Abano As (2001 Uet, 2003 Amerique) and Ina Scot (1993 and 1995).
In short, one more reason to follow the 12 protagonists of the Turin final closely. You never know, we might then be talking about them again at the end of January.
