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Title: French Trotters
Post by: burdman on July 16, 2020, 01:48:46 PM
Whatever happened to those trotters bought over from France?
Title: Re: French Trotters
Post by: Harness Stats on July 16, 2020, 02:59:01 PM
A lot are still around.  They got scattered all over the place after that series.
Title: Re: French Trotters
Post by: The Exporter on July 16, 2020, 03:43:45 PM
Most were never fast enough to compete in the USA, no matter what class. Rene Allard had the fastests.
Title: Re: French Trotters
Post by: Harness Stats on July 16, 2020, 04:38:14 PM
Not exactly.   Allard only had Alpha D'Urzy who never won anything significant.  Oakes had Deo who was fast and raced a lot for a lot of trainers.  Bongiorno won the series with Ursis Des Calliones who was old and still races. 

Altogether 19 horses competed in that series.   2 of them only raced once or twice.  7 more were racing up to last year and the other 12 are racing now or have raced this year.  Very Very Fast is an open class trotter in the midwest at the moment.

Title: Re: French Trotters
Post by: The Exporter on July 16, 2020, 04:40:48 PM
A much clearer explanation. Your first sentence says it all, for me.
 
Title: Re: French Trotters
Post by: BadGambler1 on July 16, 2020, 04:53:55 PM
Most french trotters just get sent back to France. Might come over here for a big race or 2 but will probably get sent back. It's not even that they are inferior, it's that they are breed for 1 1/8+ races. Would love to see Face Time Bourbon come over for breeders crown in a few years tho, he can go as fast as anyone.
Title: Re: French Trotters
Post by: Bernie Madoff on July 16, 2020, 05:18:58 PM
Most french trotters just get sent back to France. Might come over here for a big race or 2 but will probably get sent back. It's not even that they are inferior, it's that they are breed for 1 1/8+ races. Would love to see Face Time Bourbon come over for breeders crown in a few years tho, he can go as fast as anyone.





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Title: Re: French Trotters
Post by: LWC on July 16, 2020, 08:11:53 PM
Not exactly.   Allard only had Alpha D'Urzy who never won anything significant.  Oakes had Deo who was fast and raced a lot for a lot of trainers.  Bongiorno won the series with Ursis Des Calliones who was old and still races. 

You must have watched a different race than I did...
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