2 September 2020
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The Deauville Barrière meeting has just come to an end and it will undoubtedly be remembered as one of a kind, as many of the events of this special year. Watch Me, Space Blues, Palace Pier, Campanelle and Audarya won the main championships of the month, while Telecaster, Mishriff, Raabihah, Tawkeel, Call the Wind, Fev the Rover and Ebaiyra either impressed or brilliantly confirmed their ambition to reach stardom.
The French-trained thoroughbreds won 12 Group races this summer in Normandy, against 9 for the British raiders, with also an American and a German win. The rise of the Calas training centre near Marseilles in Provence is confirmed with a new exacta in the Prix Quincey (Gr3) formed by Stunning Spirit and We Ride The World, a new Gr3 victory for Skalleti and the success of Tiger Tanaka in the François Boutin Prize (Gr3), ridden by Jessica Marcialis.
Among the owners, 191 have been associated with at least one victory during the Summer at Deauville. The leaders of this ranking in terms of wins are Wertheimer & Frère with 6 wins and € 159,000 in earnings, ahead of Trois Mille SC (Stéphane Cérulis and Stephan Hoffmeister) and Gérard Augustin-Normand, whose horses have won four races and earned a little more than € 80,000.
The leader by earnings is Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum. Thanks to the sole success of his Palace Pier in the Prix du Haras des Fresnay-le-Buffard Jacques Le Marois (Gr1), he earned more than € 340,000, followed by the French and English Godolphin stables of his father Mohammed, which together count more € 370,000 in earnings this summer in Deauville.
Among trainers, Jean-Claude Rouget leads with 11 wins against 10 for André Fabre and 9 for Stéphane Wattel, the best local trainer in third.
As for the riders, Pierre-Charles Boudot won 21 times at Deauville-La Touques during the meeting, two more than Cristian Demuro, his best rival with 19 victories. Maxime Guyon (15) comes in third position ahead of Christophe Soumillon (14), Théo Bachelot (12) and Mickaël Barzalona (11).
Excellent news to conclude this overview: despite the restrictions linked to the health episode, the betting turnover recorded by the PMU on the races run in Deauville approach €230m, an increase of nearly 11%! (Figures observed from July 30 to August 27)