The classic French trot race Prix d'Amerique celebrated 100 years. Then there were no Swedish-born horses in the starting field for the first time in 30 years. But it became a Swedish driver.
The trot driver Björn Goop drove the French horse Face Time Bourbon, which was one of the home favorites, to victory in Paris. The victory in perhaps the world's most prestigious trot race gave € 900,000 in prize money, corresponding to just over SEK 9.4 million.
It is the second time in three years that the Swedish star boy is riding a horse to victory in the Prix d'Amerique. 2018 won the 43-year-old with Readly Express. It was also the last time a Swedish-born won the world's perhaps biggest trotting race.
About 40,000 spectators were present at the Vincennes railway in Paris