![]() ![]() “He was racing against the best 5-year-old horses in Europe in the Jubileumspokalen,” Lugauer said. Norton Commander finished third a half-length behind Who’s Who. ![]() However, he couldn’t outkick Who’s Who and Milliondollarrhyme, who each stormed down the center of the track to take the top two spots, respectively. The cover took Norton Commander to the top of the stretch, where he dived back inside for a clear path. Up the backstretch the final time, rival Vincero’ Gar pulled the pocket and Norton Commander followed the move, shifting to the outside. Norton Commander started from the inside post and Lugauer kept the trotter three back along the pylons throughout the 2,140-meter race while favorite Who’s Who tracked cover to his outside. Lugauer tried the Gift Kronos son in Group 1 company for the first time in the Jubileumspokalen at Solvalla Aug. Norton Commander ran his win streak to three when taking a 45,000€ trot at Vincennes in a 1:10.9 kilometer rating for the 2,100 meters.Īlthough Norton Commander enters the Yonkers International Trot off three straight losses, the 5-year-old hasn’t missed by much. Norton Commander next raced at Solvalla on Elitloppet weekend, taking the class 1 final over 2,140 meters on the Saturday card. His first win this year came in a class 1 trial at Åby on the Olympiatravet undercard. After Norton Commander won a class 1 trial for 3-year-olds worth 125,000kr on Dec. 1, 2017, and won eight of his first twelve races from Sept. Norton Commander qualified at Lugauer’s Jägersro base Sept. I felt quite early this horse had the future before him.” He has the white socks and he has the really long legs. “He sticks out in the field because of the nice color and he’s a big one. “First of all, he’s a really beautiful horse,” Lugauer said. The tall chestnut sported white socks that reached his knees and a blaze that began just below his forelock and widened down his face to fully engulf his nose. ![]() Owned by Ulrich Mommert, Norton Commander came to Lugauer as an unraced 2-year-old. “I feel extremely confident and it’s a lot of fun at the moment.” We have some quite good horses,” Lugauer said. “This year is our best year in my career. In addition to Norton Commander and Alegra B, his stars include Ferrari Sisu, who finished second in the Group 1 Swedish Travderby. Lugauer has trained winners of 108 races from 397 races so far this season, good for 12.9 million Swedish Krona. Lugauer’s stable is now about 90 horses strong and in the midst of its best year to date. He moved his stable to Sweden in 2004 and has been there since. At age 16, Lugauer drove his first winner and two years later in 1992, he became a professional trainer. His father, Johann, was a successful trainer and Lugauer became fascinated by the horses at a young age. And the last point is the prize money.”Ī native of Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, Lugauer grew up in a harness racing family. “It’s always nice for the European horses to race in America. It’s the biggest point, I think,” Lugauer said. If you look at the winners of this race, they are mostly really famous racehorses. It’s one of the most famous international races in the world that we have. “We are proud of course and happy because we are a stable who wants to race in the big races. It was my plan to get him into this race, actually,” Lugauer said. He’s been racing this year against good competition and he almost beat them quite often. “It was my opinion to put him in the race because he’s now arrived at the top. 18, Norton Commander’s invitation arrived. However, after the defection of Sobel Conway on Sept. Although Lugauer hoped to secure an invitation to Yonkers’ premier race for trotters for months, his aspirations seemed crushed as the initial list of 10 probables didn’t include Norton Commander. The German-born trainer will send Norton Commander to represent his homeland in the $1 million Yonkers International Trot. I don’t know.”Ĭome October 12, Lugauer may be in a better position to answer the question. “I’m always thinking about victories, but I didn’t think about victory in the International Trot. “This is a really good question,” he said. 21), hours before his trainee Alegra B won the Breeders Crown Mares at Trabrennbahn Mariendorf in Berlin, Germany. Yonkers, NY - What would it mean to you to win the International Trot?Ĭonni Lugauer pondered the question in silence for some time Saturday morning (Sept. Am Breeders-Crown-Samstag sprach Brandon Valvo mit Conrad Lugauer, der interessante Einblicke in seine Gefühlswelt gewährt. Der Countdown zum International Trot 2019 läuft – nur noch 16 Tage, bis Ulrich Mommerts Norton Commander aus dem Quartier von Conny Lugauer auf Yonkers Raceway die deutsche Flagge möglichst hoch halten soll.ĭer Pressedienst des US-amerikanischen Verbandes USTA (United States Trotting Association) hat dem deutschen Teilnehmer eine große Story gewidmet. ![]()
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