Racing in France today comes from Nancy (flat) and Vincennes (trotting). With the Lorraine capital in easy reach of the German border, there are no fewer than 15 German-trained runners at Nancy today. 7 of them contest the same race over 2400 metres at 16.00 CET: Sagitario (Britta Fellermann/ Henk Grewe), Wellinas (Werner Hefter/ Maxime Guyon), Nasibow (Horst Steinmetz/Dominique Boeuf), Spectra (Miroslav Rulec/ Andreas Suborics), Albarello (Werner Hefter/ Jean-Pierre Carvalho), Montirat (Horst Steinmetz/ Davy Bonilla) and Proncess Petra (Miroslav Rulec/ Alxi Badel). Another 5 line up in the 1950 metres handicap at 17.30: Fancy Running (Andreas Trybuhl/ Subi), Gonezoon (Sascha Smcrzek/ Grewe), Colombe d´Or (Hefter/ Carvalho), Zolinas (Wolfgang Gülcher/ Eric Wehrel) and Londra (Smcrzek/ David Breux). The other German runners are Ebulolo (Dr. Bolte/ Boeuf) in the opening 1950 metres racefor 3yo´s, Pracani (Smcrzek/ Breux) and Standby Dancer (Dr. Bolte/ Carvalho) in the 2400 metres seller at 15.30, and Manfred Weber´s chaser Allez Hopp (Philippe Suard) over 4200 metres at 15.00.
Several of these have chances, our vote for the most likely German winner goes to the veteran Standby Dancer.