8 July 2023
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Saturday, July 8, 2023, Saint-Cloud Racecourse (Hauts-de-Seine). - Evens favourite of the €130,000 Prix Eugène Adam (Gr2), a 3-year-old race over 1m1/4, the gelding Horizon Doré (Dabirsim) displayed an impressive turn of foot to leave his four opponents at over two lengths without his rider having to push him. Gousserie Racing, the racing stable of the Chehboub family, owns the winner in association with the Écurie du Sud, Écurie Gribomont, Daniel Dumoulin, François Delaunay, Chantal Becq, and the other breeders of the gelding, including Yellow Agency, which is also an organization of the Chehboub family.
The colt was sold to Charley Rossi at the Deauville sales for €45,000 as a yearling. More recently, his 5-year-old brother Jasmin Doré (Holy Roman Emperor), also a gelding and a winner at Senonnes and Mont-de-Marsan, was sold for €20,000 to Youssef Mohammed Alturaif at the Arqana summer sales.
Horizon Doré, a brother to the talented Cavale Dorée (Sunday Break), winner of the Prix du Calvados (Gr3) and placed in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (Gr1), began his career with a victory in Salon-de-Provence last September. He then confirmed impressively in the Prix Delahante (L) at Marseille-Borély. Although he finished fifth in his seasonal comeback race, the Prix La Force (Gr3), he went on to finish second, five lengths behind Big Rock, in the Prix de Guiche (Gr3) before easily winning his debut over 2,000 meters/1m1/4 in the Prix Ridgway (L).
With this new classy display, Horizon Doré's connections can now aim for even bigger ambitions.