The Christian Bigeon bred/owned/trained veteran was clocked in 1.12.9kr for his fourth career victory and earned €181,810. Jade Renardier (7f Ecu Pierji-Daisy Clover) came second at odds of 10/1, with Anthony Barrier for SG DuPont and Magali Morabito the owner. Goodwin Zet (7m Hard Life-Kollo Zet) finished third on 29/1 ahead of rider Damien Bonne and trainer Antti Ojanpera. The 5.6/1 Dandokan (7g Maharaja-Jobi) was next for Bjorn Goop and trainer/owner David Persson.
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The 8/10 odds favorite Kentucky First (6g Detroit Castelets-Europeenne Seven) scored in the Prix de Faverolles (money amount €48,000, 2700 meters, 10 starters aged 6-7 years) ahead of jockey Mehdi Lelievre and the Amerique connections Ecurie Luck and trainer Jean Luc Dersoir.
This was his seventh career win, earning €155,190. The race time was 1.13.2 kr. Kabala Quick (6f Up and fast-Karoll Brador) was a close second at 15/1 with jockey Estelle Croisic for trainer Mathieu Mottier and Ecurie Smach. Third place was 7.6/1 Kilou d’Ymer (6g Kudos from Iton-Rolls d’Ymer) with Justin Maillard in the irons for owner/trainer Gregory Thorel.
Replay https://www.letrot.com/courses/2026-01-27/7500/6
The sad news was that the Spanish grande trotteur Trebol passed away at the age of 19. What a favorite or mine…a tough campaigner.
Trebol is a celebrated Spanish standard-bred trotter from Menorca, known for setting a world record with 56 consecutive victories and competing internationally.
Trebol (born 2007) is a Spanish Menorcan Standard bred trotter who was the first Spanish-bred trotter to win an international grade 1 harness race. Later in his career he stayed on the island Minorca and raced on the two main circuits. Trebol set a world record of 56 consecutive victories with a Standardbred.
Background
Trebol (“clover” in Spanish) was born on the Spanish island Minorca in 2007. Menorca has two harness tracks: Hipòdrom Municipal De Maó and Hipódromo Torre Del Ram. It was at these tracks that Trebol began and ended his decade-long racing career.
Racing career
Trebol started his career in 2009 at the age of two. For the first two years he raced on the two circuits of Menorca before moving to the two circuits on the nearby island Mallorca.[2] Trebol’s first 23 starts were in Spain, with 17 wins and a 13-race winning streak; he won at distances from 1600 meters (one mile) to 2700 meters (1+5⁄8 miles). At the start of his four-year-old season, after winning another race in Spain, Trebol was shipped to France. He finished third in the Group 3 Prix Charles Tiercelin, breaking his win streak. Trebol did not win in France that year, but added a further seven victories in Mallorca before being sidelined by a life-threatening attack from colic.
He returned to racing in France with less success, winning no more than two races a year from 2012 to 2014, but making most of his lifetime money outside Spain. In 2015, at the age of eight, Trebol finished second in the Group 3 Prix Jean Rene Gougeon. He was then shipped to Finland for the Group 1 Kymi Grand Prix; near the back of the field
During the first two laps of the race he came from behind to pass leader Maven and hold off a late attack from Oasis Bi. Trebol’s victory was the first win of an international Group 1 race by a Spanish-bred trotter. Trebol won the Kymi Grand Prix again in 2016, making the final steps for his second (and final) Group 1 victory. Later that year he won the Group 3 Prix Luxembourg, his biggest victory of his career in France. After a winless year of international racing, Trebol was brought back to Spain to race at the Hippodrome San Pardo in Mallorca and easily won a 3,150 meter race. It was originally intended to be his final career start.
Winning streak
After his victory in San Pardo, Trebol returned to his hometown in Menorca. Alternating between Hipòdrom Municipal De Maó and Hipódromo Torre Del Ram, he raced for much smaller purses than in France. Trebol also raced more often, winning all 28 of his 2018 starts at age 11. His winning streak received widespread attention early in his 12-year-old season, as it approached the world record.
Trebol surpassed From San Simeon winning streak of 29 when he was 11 years old. He equaled the record of Carty Nagle, an American pacer who won 41 consecutive races in 1938, on his fifth start as a 12-year-old on April 15, 2019. The Swedish cold-blooded trotter Järvsöfaks had won 42 consecutive races. Trebol won his 42nd race in a row, equaling Järvsöfak’s win streak, on April 22 – just a week after his 41st win. He attempted to win his 43rd race in a row on May 6, a record in harness racing. Trebol was at or near the lead for the entire race and held off a challenge at the top of the stretch to win by a distance. At the end of July, he extended his winning streak to 50, approaching the record thoroughbreds: 54 by the undefeated My darling and 56 through Servanta small Puerto Rican racehorse that set his record in the 1950s. With three wins in August and another three in September, Trebol had won 55 races in a row and Camarero’s record was within sight. He came from behind as usual to equal Camarero’s record of 56. Trebol finished a well-beaten third place eight days later, finally ending his winning streak. He returned to racing a month later and finished second.
A week after that, he returned to his winning ways, finishing the year (and his career) with three straight wins. At the end of the season he did won 23 of 25 races and retired having won 59 of his last 61 starts.
French trotter, Paris-Vincennes, Wikipedia
Through Thomas H. Hicks, for Harnesslink
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