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Breeding & Racing in Germany

David Conolly-Smith: www.galoppfoto.de - Frank SorgeDavid Conolly-Smith: www.galoppfoto.de - Frank SorgeIn order to be of assistance to our growing number of readers from abroad, we are with immediate effect publishing in every issue of Turf Times an English page, giving in compact form all the latest racing and breeding news from Germany in English. It will be written by the well-known racing journalist David Conolly-Smith, who has lived in Germany for many years. He is the German representative of the International Racing Bureau and writes regularly on German racing and breeding for the Racing Post, Irish Field, EBN, TRC and many other publications.

23.08.2019
Ausgabe 582 vom Freitag, 23.08.2019

This year´s BBAG Yearling Sale, which takes place next Friday in the BBAG sales ring, just down the road from Iffezheim (Baden-Baden) racecourse, will attract its usual batch of national and international agents, breeders and owners, many of whom will be flying over in a specially commissioned plane on the Wednesday evening from the Goffs Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale. The German sale is now well established on the international scene and enjoys a strong reputation for well-bred yearlings at reasonable prices. There are no such stallion stars here as Galileo and Dubawi, but plenty of leading international sires such as Sea The Stars, Siyouni, Nathaniel or Kingman  are represented, as well as some highly interesting first season sires. Last year´s top two lots were knocked down for only 280,000 euros; one of them, Miss Yoda (Sea The Stars- Monami (Sholokhov))  has already shown considerable talent by winning in good style first time out for John Gosden.

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16.08.2019
Ausgabe 581 vom Freitag, 16.08.2019

“I came, I saw, I conquered;” that was Julius Caesar´s commentary when he travelled west from his Roman base to conquer Gaul. Henri-Alex Pantall, travelling in the opposite direction, could say the same thing after his exploits at Hoppegarten last weekend. He sent three horses on the 1,400 kilometres journey from his stables in western France – not that far from the Atlantic Ocean – to the Berlin racecourse in the extreme north-east of Germany. All three won – two of them in listed races, and, most importantly,  French King (French Fifteen) took the main event, the Group One Grosser Preis von Berlin.

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10.08.2019
Ausgabe 580 vom Freitag, 09.08.2019

Last Sunday´s Group One Henkel 161st Preis der Diana (German Oaks) was a messy, and in many respects unsatisfactory, race. This should in no way detract from the performance of the winner, Gestüt Brümmerhof´s homebred Diamanta (Maxios), who won fair and square and was clearly the best horse on the day. However she certainly had the run of the race, which can hardly be said of several of her rivals.

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03.08.2019
Ausgabe 579 vom Freitag, 02.08.2019

It was generally expected that one of the three U.K.-trained runners would win last Sunday´s Group One Grosser Dallmayr-Preis at Munich, Germany´s best ten furlongs race. Saeed bin Suroor´s Benbatl (Dubawi) and Ed Walker´s Stormy Antarctic (Stormy Atlantic) had finished first and second last year, and this time Stormy Antarctic was back to try and go one better. He was accompanied by David Menusier´s Danceteria (Redoute´s Choice) and Mark Johnston´s Matterhorn (Raven´s Pass), who had met earlier in the season in the Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown; Matterhorn had come out on top then, but Danceteria had showed improved form afterwards, winning La Coupe at Longchamp and then running fourth to Enable in the Eclipse Stakes. As Enable had won the King George the previous day at Ascot, a fact of which all racegoers were aware, he looked the likeliest of the foreign raiders.

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26.07.2019
Ausgabe 578 vom Freitag, 26.07.2019

The truth of this old racing adage was demonstrated again last Sunday at Düsseldorf, when Robin of Navan (American Post), trained by Harry Dunlop in Lambourn, made all the running to win the Group Two Meilen-Trophy. There were two U.K.-trained runners in the race, and punters clearly believed that the other, Indian Blessing (Sepoy) was the better, and he went off as 2.6-1 second favourite, while Robin of Navan paid an amazing 15.4-1!  Admittedly Robin of Navan was coming off a long losing run, but anyone who had taken the trouble to look through his old form would have seen that he had won a Group One at two (defeating subsequent Arc runner-up Cloth of Stars) and had been placed several times in much better company than this. He is arguably the best European son of his sire American Post (Bering), who died in 2016.

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20.07.2019
Ausgabe 577 vom Freitag, 19.07.2019

It was clear that in the week following  the German Derby meeting at Hamburg there would be a bit of a lull, and last weekend the only black type races run were the listed Grosser bwin Sommerpreis over 1900 metres at Leipzig and the listed BBAG Diana Trial at Mülheim over 2000 metres.

The Leipzig race went to the seven-year-old gelding Sun at Work (Areion), bred by Fährhof, owned by Elisabeth Kindrat, trained in Bremen by Werner Haustein and who made all the running under Maxim Pecheur. The 28-year-old jockey, who in April married Lena-Maria Mattes, herself previously a successful amateur jockey, is having a fantastic season and rode a six-timer on the day. He is attached to the leading Markus Klug stable and has not looked back since winning the Deutsches Derby on Windstoss in 2017.

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12.07.2019
Ausgabe 576 vom Freitag, 12.07.2019

After last season s results, when Godolphin took three of Germany´s five all-aged Group One races and other foreign-trained runners took several Group Two events, and the first half of this season, when again most of the better races have gone abroad, it is clear that German racing is in urgent need of another top class Group One performer comparable to Arc winner Danedream, King George winner Novellist or Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist earlier in this decade. It is just possible that we saw one last Sunday in Hamburg, in the shape of Laccario (Scalo), the convincing winner of the IDEE 150th Deutsches Derby.

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05.07.2019
Ausgabe 575 vom Freitag, 05.07.2019

We are now four-sevenths of the way through Hamburg´s Derby meeting and have seen convincing winners of the main events so far. Last Saturday, the opening day, saw the 5yo mare Abadan (Samum) run out a ready winner of the listed Langer Hamburger over two miles. She is trained by Henk Grewe in Cologne and stable jockey, the young Frenchman Lukas Delozier, rode a waiting race on the grey but found himself boxed in early in the straight; luckily there was room for him to switch and Abadan quickened nicely to speed past the frontrunning Berghain (Medicean) and win easily by a length. This was the best career performance by the winner, and indeed her first black type success; she has changed hands several times, but this was a welcome change of luck for owners  Dr. Stefan Oschmann and his wife Sharpar, who race under the name of Darius Racing.

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27.06.2019
Ausgabe 574 vom Freitag, 28.06.2019

Last weekend was very eventful for leading trainer Andreas Wöhler and showed once more how close together the highs and lows of racing can be. On Saturday he sent his 5yo Rolando (Campanologist) to win the Grand Prix there, part of the lucrative Defi du Galop series.  And the following day, his 8yo gelding Potemkin (New Approach) won the Group Three Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft at Dortmund after making all the running under stable jockey  Eduardo Pedroza.

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21.06.2019
Ausgabe 573 vom Freitag, 21.06.2019

The period between the end of Baden-Baden´s Spring Meeting and the start of Hamburg´s Derby Week, which starts on the Saturday of next week, is always rather quiet. There were only two black type races in the past week, a listed race for 3yo fillies over 2100 metres at Düsseldorf, which ended with one of the most exciting finishes of the year, and then a Group Three over 1400 metres at Dresden, the first ever group race run at this track. From the German point of view the race was a disaster with a French-trained winner whose official rating would not normally entitle him to be considered seriously for any black type event, let alone a group race. This was Brian Ryan, a 4yo gelding by Finjaan, who now stands in Morocco;  Brian Ryan at least had fitness on his side, as he had already run ten times this year, winning five times, but all at a very low level.

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14.06.2019
Ausgabe 572 vom Freitag, 14.06.2019

Last weekend´s two big classic trials, the Diana-Trial at Hoppegarten on Sunday and the Union-Rennen in Cologne on Monday, both had very convincing winners and have certainly help to clear up the picture for the German Derby at Hamburg on July 7th and the Preis der Diana at Düsseldorf on August 4th. It is still nearly two months before our Oaks, but the Derby will be run three weeks on Sunday, and there is basically only one more race for Derby candidates to qualify for the race, a listed race at Hanover on Sunday of next week. Several interesting colts have been entered for that event, including Peppone (Pastorius), who was for a long time regarded as the main Derby hope of the powerful Andreas Wöhler stable. He won his only start last year in good style, beating several subsequent winners, but was rather disappointing at Baden-Baden a fortnight ago on his only 2019 start.

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08.06.2019
Ausgabe 571 vom Freitag, 07.06.2019

Last week´s Spring Meeting at Baden-Baden can be classed as a success, partly as a result of a sudden change in the weather. On the Tuesday it was still cold and wet, by Thursday it was sunny and very warm, and it got hotter every day. For horses that wanted soft ground conditions were not ideal, although strangely enough the two that dominated the Group Two Badener Meile on the opening day are both regarded as soft ground specialists, French-trained The Revenant (Dubawi) and Irish-trained Imaging (Oasis Dream).

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