{"id":50937,"date":"2026-08-01T20:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sohorse.eu\/?p=50937"},"modified":"2026-08-01T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T18:17:25","slug":"steve-guerdat-easy-star-de-talma-derby-dinard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sohorse.eu\/en\/news\/2026\/08\/01\/steve-guerdat-easy-star-de-talma-derby-dinard\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Guerdat and Easy Star de Talma: the kings of the splash do it again in Dinard"},"content":{"rendered":"

From La Baule to Dinard, Steve Guerdat and Easy Star de Talma seem to have found their favourite playground: Derbies. The Swiss rider and his 12-year-old Selle Fran\u00e7ais once again splashed, climbed, descended and jumped faster than everyone else this Saturday at Val Por\u00e9e. After two consecutive victories in La Baule, Dinard has now fallen too. Next swim in Brussels?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are horses who like perfectly flat arenas, freshly harrowed sand and courses where every stride looks like the last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s Easy Star de Talma<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He, apparently, when he spots a bank, a mound, a water jump and a few obstacles that make you want to pull on rubber boots rather than polished shoes, seems to think the day is off to a pretty good start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Guerdat<\/strong> too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Saturday in Dinard, the Swiss rider and his 12-year-old Selle Fran\u00e7ais once again turned a Derby into a health walk. Well, so to speak. Because the Derby of Val Por\u00e9e is still around 1,100 metres, 25 efforts and more than two minutes of galloping between traditional fences, barriers, a gate, mounds, banks and passages through water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little Breton hike. With \u20ac40,000 at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Easy Star, all-terrain mode<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And the least one can say is that Easy Star de Talma is starting to seriously enjoy the concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In cathedral silence until the final fence, the rider from Jura built his round. And when we say built, we really mean built. Clear, Steve Guerdat stopped the clock at 155.19 seconds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spain\u2019s Armando Trapote and Caept\u2019n Hook tried to follow, but finished more than five seconds behind, in 160.81. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crossing the line clear already looked like a small victory for Alberto Sanchez-Cozar<\/strong> with Giovani de Perhet<\/strong>. He did not hide it. The pair completed the podium in 169.19, just ahead of Belgium\u2019s Thibeau Spits and Quendelin van\u2019t Merelsnest, also clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In short, Guerdat did not simply win. He still had plenty of time to wipe his feet after coming out of the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this success was no trial run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The son of Quick Star and Talma de Toscane, by Opium de Talma, bred by Michel Guiot, even seems to have calmly decided to build himself a second career: Derby horse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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