The Grand Prix d’Amérique offers its share of suspense and twists each year under a very precise scene. Prestigious players ensure the legendary race the best possible casting. So many terms from the cinema that remind us that horse racing is above all a breathtaking spectacle.
The oldest Grand Prix d’Amérique race film we have available dates back to 1930, just 10 years after the event was created. Amazon B had triumphed. The images we found, however, focus on Uranie, third in this edition, and winner in 1926, 27 and 28. A first choice of staging already … The mare of Valentino Capovilla was the first trotting star in history . She was the one who burst the screen at the time. Countless unforgettable stars have obviously succeeded him. Ourasi, with its four successes in the World Harnessed Trotting Championship, still occupies the first place on the list.
Like a real film, the Grand Prix d’Amérique first of all has its set, its film set. It is called the Paris-Vincennes Hippodrome and offers the best trotters on the planet to compete on its famous clinker, also called ashy, every last Sunday in January. Competitors, horses and drivers, play their part on the demanding 2,700-meter course of the Grande Piste, with its wide curves and above all its formidable climb, where the knot of the plot is often located.
In the end, the Grand Prix d’Amérique sees itself as the film of a lifetime for many professionals. Drivers, coaches, owners and breeders dream of participating in it, getting a role in it. The apotheosis would be to take victory and become its hero. We prepare for many years to hope to appear in the poster, but the actors of the queen event are only 18 at most. Favorite propelled stars appear there armed with a devouring ambition, but they are sometimes overshadowed by supposed extras, unexpected, that their talent and the uncertainty of the competition propel in a few moments the rank of stars. The screenplay is never written in advance.
Sunday, January 26, 2020, around 40,000 people in Paris-Vincennes and several million viewers in 36 countries will watch a unique film, a short film of only 3 minutes and ten seconds but still exciting: the Grand Prix d’Amérique race.
Watch the images of the Grand Prix d’Amérique in 1930 with Uranie via this link.
