Face Time Bourbon, with Eric Raffin driving, won the classic trotting race, the Prix de Selection, at Vincennes Saturday afternoon (March 6) in a new race record of 1.53.1 (mile rate).

Face Time Bourbon captured his third consecutive Prix de Selection on Saturday afternoon. Gerard Forni photo.

This was the third year in a row Face Time Bourbon won the race, which is open for 4- 5-and 6-year old trotters and contested over 2,175 meters or close to 1-3/8 miles.

Just one trotter has earlier won the race three times, Jamin, who was the leading French trotter 60 years ago.

The Prix de Selection is a Group I race and had a total purse of $107,000 for the winner.

This was the first race for Face Time Bourbon after Björn Goop was removed as his driver.