Cleangame is impressive in France

Cleangame, a 7-year-old gelding trained and driven by Jean Michel Bazire, won on Wednesday (Nov. 6) in a leg in the Tour de France — the Grand National du Trot — at the racetrack in Nantes in the French Province.

Cleangame was a winner at Nantes. Gerard Forni photo.

Cleangame was timed in a mile rate of 1:54.3 over the added distance of 3,000 meters or 1-7/8 miles.

As a gelding Cleangame is excluded from several of the big races in the Winter meeting at Vincennes. Otherwise, he definitely would have been one of the favorites for the Prix d’Amerique.

Now the biggest goal for Cleangame will be the final in the Grand National du Trot to be raced at Vincennes on Dec. 1, with a total purse of $145,000 with $65,000 for the winner.

But Jean Michel Bazire has other trotters in his stable who will be aimed for the Prix d’Amerique and the races leading up to the big race. He has the defending champion, Belina Josselyn, who raced Tuesday at Vincennes in an apprentice-race, where she finished sixth. Another top trotter in the Bazire stable is Davidson du Pont, who was fourth in the Prix d’Amerique this year.

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