Christian Demoureux for Ace Impact wins the French Derby for the third time

Now that Lanfranco Dettori is preparing to give up sprint racing at the end of the year after a stellar career that made him the face of horse racing even for those who never followed it, Christian DeMuro to collect his club around the world. The 31-year-old Romanian jockey, who moved to France for years (the leading country in international sprints with England and Ireland) to escape the Italian horse racing crisis after achieving a hitherto unbeaten record of seasonal victories (264 in 2012), Mandy confirms Derby par excellence. Not only in Italy, where he won the Derby alle Capannelle five times, soon at that time ceased to be considered the younger brother of Mirco Demuro (in turn at the top sprint in Japan), but now also in France: where Christian Demuro made the day for the third time in Racecourse Chantilly in Paris, success in the French Derby, the Jockey Club’s 184th prize race of €1.5 million over 2100m on turf, to keep his French 3-year-old Thoroughbred Ice undefeated by Impact, its holder. Real estate developer Serge Stempniac in his first Classic victory.

A mockery of the king of home pizza

The result may seem far from obvious to those who, upon seeing favorite Big Rock at the start of the finish line in a breakaway with several lengths of advantage, had doubts about the accelerator in their brain. Dimore, Who from the penultimate position moved the Ace Impact to the outside and began to return, which gradually hovered above the other ten competitors, 100 meters from the finish line, caught the fugitive carrier of the Cuban businessman Leopoldo Fernandez Pugales in oxygen crisis, who escaped from Havana After the advent of Castro and then the architect in Spain of a 300 million euro empire centered on the home delivery chain Telepizza. But this time the timely delivery was that of Demuro, who, in addition to making a personal hat-trick after the successes of 2017 and 2019, gave coach Jean-Claude Roget the Sixth Seal in the Classics.

Race records

For me it is stronger than Sottsass! Demuro comments enthusiastically comparing Ace Impact To the horse he won the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 2020, the most important international comparison of purebreds of all ages and countries. And a judgment worthy of an appointment for the first Sunday in October, in addition to already being a sentence of chronometers: riding the son of the English stallion Cracksman (who in turn won the Epsom Derby and then the Arc) Demuro was established in fact the new record for the race, 2’02″63, three tenths less than sotsas in 2019.