Thursday, April 24, 2008

German runners in France today

Oce again there are 3 French meetings this afternon, with Nancy having an early start, Chantilly normal times and Laval (trotting) a late start. There are numerous German-trained runners at the two flat meetings, as follows:

Nancy 1st race, 12.35 CET (steeplechase)
Allez Hopp (Manfred Weber/ PHilippe Suard)
Rosenbrief (Christian von der Recke/ Jan Korpas)

Nancy 3rd race, 13.35 (handicap, 2400 metres)
Montiras (Horst Steinmetz/ Davy Bonilla)

Nancy 4th race, 14.05, 3yo, 1950 metres
Thargelia (Peter Sciergen/ Filip Minarik)
Skittle (Matthias Keller/ Tony Piccione)
Tapisserie (v.d.Recke/ Alexander Pietsch)

Nancy 5th race, seller, 2400 metres
Cabari (Dieter Fechner/ Franck Foresi)
Mister Lodge (Keller/ Minarik)
Orfisio (v.d.Recke/ Thierry Gillet)

Nancy 6th race, 15.05, 4yo hurdles
Nearly Perfect (Schiergen/ Paul Johnson)
Primus (v.d.Recke/ Korpas)

Nancy 7th race, 15.35 handicap, 1950 metres
Zolinas (Wolfgang Gülcher/ Jean-Pierre Carvalho)
Lava Rock (Hans Walter Hiller/ Teddy Richer)

Chantilly 1st race, 13.50 handicap, 2400 metres
Kaliyan (Mario Hofer/ Andreas Suborics)

Chantilly 2nd race, 14.20, listed race, 1200 metres
Arc de Triomphe (Dieter Fechner/ Johan Victoire)

Chantilly 8th race, 17.20 handicap, 2400 metres
Lennon (Ralf Rohne/ Ioritz Mendizibal)
West Pacific (Rohne/ Sebastian Maillot)

Certainly several of these should be involved in the finish, and in our view the best chances of a German victory are in the two jumps races from Nancy