GIOVEDÌ 14 LUGLIO 2016 Francia: Mont Ormel e Cristian Demuro volano sul Grand Prix de Paris! Terzo G1 in Francia per il jockey italiano nel 2016
Un FE-NO-ME-NO! La valigia degli aggettivi l’abbiamo disfatta da tempo, ma quello che Cristian riesce ad ottenere volta dopo volta, è sempre più sorprendente. Una sorta di talismano da sfregare in ogni grande occasione: Basta dargli una chancetta e lui la trasforma in qualcosa di nuovo, di lucente, di esaltante. In sella a Mont Ormel (Air Chief Marshall) ha preso la Bastiglia vincendo il Grand Prix de Paris G1 di Saint Cloud G1 con un cavallo ritenuto una sorpresa, per le quote, ma non per chi ha sempre considerato Cristian un fantino sopra la media in grado di tirare fuori il massimo da un cavallo da corsa quando ce n’è. E che lui fosse a 22/1 non gli importava! Ci credeva il sorcio, ci credeva tanto. E l’ultima volta che lo abbiamo sentito lo aveva confermato ai nostri microfoni. Tutto questo dopo La Cressonniere che gli aveva regalato le Poule ed il Diane G1, 2 G1 a cui va aggiunto anche questo di G1, l’ennesimo di una collana di successi. Cristian ha messo il suo nelle condizioni migliori per emergere: è una cosa che si dice spesso, ma così è. All’interno, alle spalle di Beacon Rock (Galileo) paraocchiato per l’occasione, ha pazientato vicino alla testa fino all’ingresso in retta quando ha sfruttato il varco all’interno per filare liscio come l’olio lungo lo steccato. Pam, pam, pam. Due, tre colpetti per tenere il suo bello sveglio e farlo sottrarre dall’attacco del supplementato (al costo di €43,200) Red Verdon (Lemon Drop Kid) e Cloth Of Stars(Sea The Stars), con il favorito Mekhtal (Sea The Stars) solo quarto. Jean Claude Rouget, il mattatore del periodo, strabattuto ma una vittoria utile a regalare a Madame Pia Brandt il più grande giorno della sua carriera, con un cavallo non atteso affatto. Ancora una soddisfazione per Gerard-Augustin Normand, che ha deciso di affidare le sorti della scuderia ad uno che in Italia era noto per la fame sanguinosa di un jockey che non si accontenta mai. Bravo Cristian, te lo meriti tutto! Per vedere video e risultato completo cliccare su continua a leggere..
Cristian Demuro salutes the crowd after Mont Ormel’s victory
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Big-race joy for Brandt as Mont Ormel strikes
Report: France, Thursday, Saint-Cloud: Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris (Group 1) 1m4f, turf, 3yo
PIA BRANDT enjoyed the biggest win of her career when Mont Ormel sprang a shock under Cristian Demuro in the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at Saint-Cloud on Bastille Day.
The Swedish-born Brandt is a rising star of the French training ranks and was denied her maiden Group 1 triumph when Camprock was defeated by the Jean-Claude Rouget-trained Jemayel in the Prix Saint-Alary at Deauville in May.
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Rouget was again in opposition, saddling the 17-10 favourite Mekhtaal, but he was among the first to congratulate his training counterpart after outsider Mont Ormel swept to a length-and-a-quarter verdict over the Ed Dunlop-trained Red Verdon, who was supplemented for the race at a cost of €43,200 this week.
Back in third was Godolphin’s Investec Derby eighth Cloth Of Stars, while Mekhtaal, so impressive in the Prix Hocquart for the all-conquering Rouget but only eighth in the Prix du Jockey Club last time, was fourth.
Beacon Rock, representing the Aidan O’Brien-Ryan Moore-Coolmore axis, was last of the eight runners.
A son of Air Chief Marshall, Mont Ormel was settled on the rail in midfield by Italian jockey Demuro, who has won the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Prix de Diane on Rouget’s La Cressonniere this term.
He enjoyed a dream run and quickened to hit the front in the final two furlongs, responding gamely to his rider’s encouragement to repel Newmarket raider Red Verdon, who came from a long way back.
Arc option?
The winner runs in the colours of Gerard Augustin-Normand, who won the 2009 Prix de Jockey Club with Le Havre.
He was denied a crack at that year’s Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, which Paddy Power quoted Mont Ormel at 33-1 for.
“I was not expecting to win”, said Brandt, whose challenger had bolted up on heavy ground at the far-from-glamorous Compiegne on his previous outing.
“We knew the horse had potential and the last race showed he was becoming a real horse, but today was serious and he did exactly what the jockey asked him.”
Brandt, who previous high score came with L’Amour De Ma Vie in the Group 2 Balanchine at Meydan in 2014, added: “We didn’t expect to win a Group 1 so now we’ll have to talk about what to do.”
Classic aim for Red Verdon
Dunlop is clear what he would like to do with Red Verdon, who was sixth in the Derby and fourth in the Irish equivalent after supplementary entries.
“We were planning to sit in the middle but ended up last and he took off from a long way back,” said Dunlop, who trains the son of Lemon Drop kid for Ronnie Arculli, whose best horse Red Cadeaux died last year.
“It looked like it’d still be enough to win but he flattened out a little. He’s improving. We haven’t won a Group 1 yet, but the way he’s going he will win one. He’ll have a rest and could go for the Voltigeur then St Leger.”
Also on Thursday, Saint-Cloud: Prix Maurice de Nieuil (Group 2) 1m6f, 4yo+
Candarliya (Alain de Royer-Dupre/Christophe Soumillon) showed the same sort of form as when finding only the mighty Treve her superior in last September’s Prix Vermeille.
Launched pushed the four-year-old daughter of Dalakhani hard but it was Candarliya’s superior finishing speed which won the day.
“It has dried out plenty and that might have made the difference,” said Royer-Dupre. “She has a real turn of foot on that ground. Depending on how strong the race looks she could take her chance in the Yorkshire Oaks. Although that is 2,400 metres [1m4f] you need to stay up that straight.”
Saint-Cloud: Prix de Thiberville (Listed) 1m4f, 3yo fillies
Last Tango Inparis showed class and guuts under Freddy Tylicki when just going down to Golden Valentine (Freddy Head/Aurelien Lemaitre) in the final 50 yards.
Hughie Morrison’s charge sat second for much of the trip and, having launched her challenge half way up the straight, looked to have fought off all challengers until Golden Valentine – who was carrying a 4lb penalty for her narrow defeat in the Group 3 Prix du Lys last month – came at her one final time.
The Meon Valley homebred delighted owner Mark Weinfeld, who said: “She has come to herself now and with a little bit more juice in the ground she might have won. She is a nice filly and I think Hughie’s plan is to put her away for an autumn campaign. We thought that we might get a place but she has exceeded that.”