Historic weekend for island horse racing. On Saturday at the Prague hippodrome, Antonio Fresu from Ozieri won the 2021 edition of the European Jockey's Cup, an international event that greeted the success of Cristian Demuro in 2015.

The jockey from Ozieri led the ranking thanks to the victories in two listed: EJC Cena Bak Stavební Společnosti riding Porcinella and EJC Cena Hrubymoving Transport riding Wellunca.

And on Sunday “Tonineddu” finished first with Calithea in another listed race, run in Capannelle. The peculiarity is that it was an ex aequo victory that made the island happy twice, because the other two-year winner is Sa Filonzana, led by Alessandro Fiori and saddled by Antonio Cottu. The recovery of the two-year-old who had won the Criterium was sensational: starting from the rear she managed to recover in the reptile and join Calithea. The photo finish confirmed the paired arrival, to the delight of the Ortu di Ottana team. It had never happened that a thoroughbred trained in Sardinia won a listed race.

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