“Turf in USA”: how Mondial Toboggan wrote a French racehorse into a track

Garden State Park. New Jersey, 1988.

Ourasi, France’s most beloved trotter, crosses the Atlantic to race the best American horses.
In the stands, nobody doubts it. He won’t lose.

Sugarcane Hanover hadn’t read the French papers. Ourasi lost.

That defeat became a song.