This is the double effect Critérium Continental: win a Group I and open the doors of the Grand Prix d’Amérique. The ambitions are high, very high for these young trotters of 4 years that the ardor and the talent can propel very high. Appointment Sunday, December 23 at Vincennes Hippodrome of Paris.
Critérium Continental really has a place in the calendar: its international dimension, its meeting of champions of 4 years which we can follow for some exploits and progress since their debut, the place in the calendar to a few days of Christmas. The gifts are the champions on the track and are called Erminig d’Oliverie, Earl Simon or the Italian visitor Vitruvio (winner of the most beautiful races for 4-year in his country and 2nd richest horse vying here). A fight of the promotion majors who ambition to go tickle the tenors of the world trot. The Criterium Continental offers its winner and dolphins the opportunity to make an appointment with the future.
The winners of the Critérium Continental in the Grand Prix of America
2017 – Doria Desbois – not present
2016 – Treasure Kronos – not present
2015 – Bold Eagle – 1st (in 2016) then 1st (in 2017), 3rd in 2018
2014 – Tumble Dust – Disq.
2013 – Victoire – not present
2012 – Un Mec d’Héripré – Disq. (in 2013)
2011 – Timoko – 5th (in 2012) then 7th (2013), 5th (2014), 3rd (2015), 2nd (2016), NP (2017)
2010 – Severino – 6th (in 2011), 7th (2012)
2009 – Rolling d’Héripré – Disq.
2008 – Qualita Bourbon – 3rd
2007 – Prodigious – Disq. 5th place
2006 – Offshore Dream – 1st (in 2007) then 1st in 2008 and 6th (in 2009)
2005 – Nijinski Blue – NP (2006)
2004 – Opal Viking – not present in 2005 but 2nd (2008), 5th (2009) and NP (2010).
See the runners of the 2018 edition.
It should be noted that Erminig d’Oliverie, thanks to his winnings and the bonus offered to the 5-year-old, could have a place at the start of the Grand Prix d’Amérique without winning the Criterium Continental, if his entourage wanted it.
