Magnificent Rodney wins prep for Prix d'Amerique

The Prix d’Amerique will be held the last Sunday in January, and the top trotters in Europe are beginning to make serious preps to see if they will be contenders in the race, and one of them might be the Ulf Nordin-trained Magnificent Rodney, who won the Prix Bourbonnais at Vincennes in Paris on Saturday afternoon.

Magnificent Rodney was driven aggressively by Erik Raffin and was an impressive winner with his score over 2,700 meters (timed in a mile rate of 1:59.1). Magnificent Rodney was bearing out in the homestretch, going way wide, but he did not impede anyone else’s path and trotted on to the victory over Giuseppe Bi, a son of Toss Out.

A son of Coktail Jet, Magnificent Rodney won the 2008 Prix Cornulier, France’s prestigious race for trotters ridden under saddle.

In other European trotting news, Triton Sun, a son of Viking Kronos out of the Sugarcane Hanover mare Jade Sund, beat Colombian Necktie Saturday at the Halmstad track in Sweden. He now has nine wins in 18 starts for trainer Stefan Hultman.  

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