Friday, May 30, 2008

German runners at Le Croisé - Laroche

It has been another successful week for German raiders in France, and thered could be more winners today., where there are German-trained runners in almost every race at Le Croisé Laroche, all of which are over the distance of 2100 metres. In the 2nd race at 14.20 CET, a 3yo seller, Mario Hofer´s No Next (Jean-Pierre Carvalho) and Christian von der Recke´s Arrow Flight (Yann Lerner) boht line up, while half an hour later Sultan of Riad (Manfred Weber/ Nicolas Dieu) runs, and another half hour later Download (Regina and Fabien-Xaver Weissmeier) and Omonia (Uwe Ostmann/ William Mongil). In a seller for 3yo fillies at 15.50, the German runners are Pirina (Hans Blume/ Andreas Suborics) and Tralee (von der Recke/ Lerner). Von der Recke also saddles Easytango with Johan Victoire in the 4yo seller at 16.20 and Maknoon with Marc Lerner in the seller for older horses and for amateur riders at 17.20, in which race he is joined by Lava Rock (Hans Walter Hiller/ F. Pradeau) and Gordion (Norbert Sauer/ Thierry Steeger), and finally Beau Marchand (Weber/ Dieu) and Pennekar (Sauer/ Davy Bonilla) are entered in the 4yo race at 17.50.