Gontaut-Biron Hong Kong Jockey Club: Wally on the wire

Sunday August 15, 2021, Deauville-La Touques Racecourse (Calvados). - Winner in the spring of the Prix Edmond Blanc (Gr2), the 4-year-old gelding Wally (Siyouni) then failed at the best level but he had won again in the Gran Premio di Milano (Gr2), over ten furlongs. Long last this time over the Prix Gontaut-Biron Hong Kong Jockey Club (Gr3), he finally defeated the leader Monty (Motivator). Always well placed, the third Algiers (Shamardal) held on well to finish half-length behind the first two.

The winner is owned by Jean-Pierre Barjon, the President of the Trotting races in France, who bought him as a yearling for € 130,000 and then bought him back at the last Arc sale for € 140,000.

After Wally, her first foal, his dam Full of Beauty (Motivator), second in the Italian Oaks (Gr2), gave Silver Lining (Caravaggio), winner on August 1 at Clairefontaine of his first race, and a Le Havre filly sold Saturday, the day before the “Gontaut-Biron”, at Arqana for € 200,000 to Oceanic Bloodstock.