THE great and the good of European trotting were at Vincennes outside Paris at the weekend for the €900,000 Prix d’Amérique and the fantastic festival around the feature race.

The 40,000 strong crowd went home satisfied as the current top man in France, Jean Michel Bazire trained and drove the favourite Belina Josselyn (€3.50 on the PMU) to take Europe’s most coveted trophy.