Trained in Lamorlaye, Nabunga ended her career where she started ten years earlier, in Chantilly

This Friday, February 21, in Whipped creama horse attracts all eyes to the presentation round of the first race of the day meeting: Nabunga. It is true that this 13 -year -old horse has become one of the darling of the turfists. And on Friday, Nabunga must in principle start from the final race in his career.

He is not the favorite From the test but it is still quite played, its rating not exceeding 10/1. “In pure value, this is not the first chance of the race,” says André, a turfist came to attend the entire Cantilian meeting. But it is both regular and courageous. He can come out through the big door. “

“He can take a place”

Nabunga is trained in Lamorlaye by Julien Phelippon. Before the race, the sympathetic professional explains at the microphone of Equidia, the racing chain, which this 13 -year -old gamble “can take a place” before retiring. He recognizes that Nabunga is not the first chance but that he “can succeed in a good performance On a course he appreciates ”.

This first meeting of Reunion on the Condé racecourse takes place on the 2,700 meters of the fiber sand track. Nabunga has already won several races on this route which claims above all the outfit. Starting off, Nabunga will have a long time to museum at the back of the little peloton. The more well it will finish along the rope, making a moment illusion for a place on the podium. But, after examining the photo, the horse of the yellow forest stable finally obtains fourth place, only a head of the third.

At least as much applauded as the winner

For his last return to the scales, where the first of each race are found before returning to the stables, Nabunga is at least as much applauded as the winner, Lorenzo de Medici. “It is not without a twinge in the heart or without a tear that I attended at this moment, reports Jacques Yesse, a real enthusiast of the races who was delighted to attend this Friday at the final performance of Nabunga. The trip was worth it and I thank Julien Phelippon for giving me a second chance to attend the farewells of Nabunga, farewell that I had missed two years ago, on the same racetrack. “

Nabunga had indeed retired that was finalized on March 14, 2022. But after a two -year break, Nabunga finally resumed competition in February 2024 to compete in around twenty races, removing four. He was missing competition …

Ten years of fierce competition

The very first horse race dates back to March 30, 2015. It was already in Chantilly. But he will have to put a few months to pass the post in the lead, on August 15, 2015, when he was still under the training of Alain de Royer Dupré, another Cantilian coach, who mainly dealt with AGA horses Khan, who unfortunately has just left us …

Between March 30, 2015 and February 21, 2025, almost ten years will have passed. So much career, for a galloper, is not common. Most cracks run only one or two seasons before entering the stud farm. But being hungry (since Castré), Nabunga obviously could not be intended for reproduction. This partly explains this long and beautiful career which will have marked more than one turfist.

Good retirement, nabunga!