(CNN)Celebrating the excellent thoroughbred racehorses in South America, the Gran Premio Latinoamericano is the most prestigious date on the continent’s racing calendar.
The race, additionally regarded as the Longines Latin American Grand Prix, was first run in Uruguay in 1981 and, similar to the Breeders’ Cup within the USA, is held at a specific location every 12 months.
A constantly converting venue permits the race to live sparkling, with the gap and floor varying every 12 months.
The lovely Club Hipico de Santiago, Chile, performed host to the present-day edition of the spectacle in a country steeped in racing records. A hundred-and-fifty-year-antique venue was designed in a European fashion and resembled the iconic Longchamp Racecourse in Paris.
When the thoroughbreds fly out of the stalls to the cry of a passionate crowd, it’s not just the $500,000 prize handbag up for grabs, though. National pleasure is also a big part of South America’s richest horse race.
National pleasure
Entrants represent their countries in Latin America, just like in the Olympic Games.
This year’s race featured participants from four traveling countries—Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina—all seeking to mission their Chilean hosts for the prize.
Brazil is the most successful use in the race’s 35-12 months history, with ten winners, but the Chilean horses had a unique advantage on the Club Hipico de Santiago.
“We run clockwise. All different race tracks in South America run counterclockwise. It’s an advantage for certain; the times we host the Latino, we most effectively have victories from Chilean horses,” racecourse supervisor Oscar Vargas told CNN Winning Post.
It’s a sample repeated in 2019, with favorite Ya Primo triumphing over Chile in its ninth victory.
It turned into prevailing teacher Guillermo Aguirre’s first victory in the race, a feat that left him visibly emotional.
“It’s a first-rate feeling to be up there with the alternative horses among such terrific expertise. I lost my wife four months ago, and I’m pretty certain she’s helping me from the sky,” he told CNN’s Winning Post.
