This Sunday, it is an XXL challenge for the opponents of Face Time Bourbon in the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race. A collector of victories and defending champion, the champion coached by Sébastien Guarato seems to many observers unbeatable. Here are, if need be, some figures which plead in its favor. Not very reassuring for his opponents.
0 – Beat Face Time Bourbon on the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race course? To date, no trotter has succeeded in doing so. Sébastien Guarato’s star has 5 wins in 5 outings over the 2,700 meters of the Big Track at Hippodrome Paris-Vincennes.
1 – Among the competitors entered in the Prix d’Amerique Legend Race, only one managed to beat Face Time Bourbon. This is Davidson du Pont for the Prix de France Speed Race 2020 (2,100 meters, Grande Piste). Since then, the champion coached by Sébastien Guarato has beaten his elder twice, notably in the recent Prix d’Amérique Races ZEturf QUALIF # 5 Prix de Bourgogne.
4 – This is his way of setting the record straight. After each defeat, Face Time Bourbon wins at least its 4 following races. Beaten in Naples on October 25, the champion has since triumphed 3 times …
5 – Like the QUALIF # 5 Prix de Bourgogne. By winning this race at the start of January (despite a bad number behind the autostart), Face Time Bourbon made an impression but also a good extra point. Indeed, several trotters have won the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race after winning this event a few weeks earlier (Bold Eagle, Ready Cash, Meaulnes du Corta or Jag de Bellouet to name only the most recent).
9 – This is the number of Group I taken from Vincennes by Face Time Bourbon. On the Paris track, and at this level of competition, he had only one failure.
11 – Bold Eagle is the latest trotter to win two back-to-back Prix d’Amérique Legend Race at 5 and 6 years old. This is also what Face Time Bourbon will try to achieve. Between the two champions, there are several points in common. Here are 11. Non-exhaustive list:
Like Bold Eagle, Face Time Bourbon is a son of Ready Cash (himself a two-time winner of the Great Race) and is coached by Sébastien Guarato (who therefore knows the recipe for winning two consecutive Legend Races).
When it came time to put his title in the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race back into play, Face Time Bourbon had only lost 5, which was also the case for Bold Eagle on the eve of his second success in the queen event. of the trot. A Bold Eagle who, like him, was then unbeaten over the 2,700 meters of the Grande Piste.
Finally, Face Time Bourbon followed a program quite identical to that of Bold Eagle between his first two attempts in the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race: he was absent between February and June, participated in 11 races and won 9, and on this streak, he won the Prix René Ballière, the Critérium des 5 ans and the Prix de Bourgogne and Bourbonnais. In other words, Face Time Bourbon, in addition to following in its footsteps, is in the times of passage of its glorious elder.
83.33
Are you looking for a loophole, a weak link in the Face Time Bourbon “device”? It is certainly not his driver, Björn Goop, who has more than 7,000 wins and no longer has to prove himself at Vincennes. And in the Prix d’Amerique Legend Race in particular: 2 wins, 3 runners-up for the Swedish driver in his last 6 attempts in the Great Race. That is, since 2015, 83.33% success rate (in the first 3) for the driver fuoriclasse. Excuse the little!
2,197,440
This is, in euros, the amount of winnings accumulated in competition by Face Time Bourbon. A sum acquired in only 33 outings. Face Time Bourbon is also an average of 29,009 euros gained per kilometer traveled on the track. An average which, of course, could be significantly revised upwards if successful this Sunday.
