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Won like a penalty kick WITHOUT goaltender. The rest looked a bit like selling class.
That´s not saying much, when it´s English.
Very easy win for Pirouette from Wild Approach and like a ten way photo for third. Hope you were on.
Couldn´t put you off Pirouette. Wild Approach seems the strongest German contender on form. Maybe stick a saver on Dalila on 16-1. German champion jockey on Dalila for Peter Schiergen. Good two year old form, only beaten by a Gr.3 winner, while beating Listed and Group 3 winners herself. She might have been ante-post favourite for the German Oaks over the winter. Not sure. Did okay on re-appearance in Listed company, 4th less than a length behind the 2nd, but you´d have to forgive her a disappointing run in Italy, when finishing 8th as the favourite in a Listed race. No insider information, just a guess that the horse could go better than his odds.
I think you guys are too harsh on Hawkbill and Racing History. They would have easily dominated the Gr.1 at the end of last year in Germany, if the riders didn´t think of Guignol as Savoir Vivre´s pacemaker. Here they probably ran into the best German horse. I think Markus Klug never had an Arc runner, despite all his success in Germany, so that he had this campaign mapped out with the Arc as the target shows how highly he rated Dschingis Secret and his improvement from 3 to 4.
Sure they are not Gr.1 winning superstars, but Hawkbill, Racing History and Wuheida are not mugs. Godolphin showed the proper respect imho. Do they even have any better middle distance horses in training? Wuheida´s only loss had been to RoyPoly, who in turn has only been beaten by a potential superstar in Winter. Also wasn´t obvious she would not stay.
This was good for German racing. It´s worse, when AOB sends his hurdlers in an attempt to win the German Derby. That´s disrespectful.
I was stoked to see the mighty Dschingis Secret take down the Grosser Preis today, Hein. What a star. I thought he had a chance in the Coronation Cup earlier in the year but connections chose not to take the trip.
Do you think Dschingis Secret will run outside Germany this year?
Next races will be the Prix Foy, then the Arc. He hates Baden-Baden, so they´ll skip the big Gr.1 there. Adrie DeVries thinks he´ll be even better on heavy/soft with a truly run race. He pulled hard today.
Her dam sire is Monsun and the bottom line traces to German post war breeding that I don’t know anything about. Soul Stirring therefore is an example of what Frankel can do with an outcross. Incidentally, Stacelita was the only Monsun mare with a foal in Crop 1; I suspect rather more Monsun mares will be coming in now!
Maybe Sanwa. Dam of Sea The Moon and full sister to three German Classic winners. She had a Golden Horn filly this year.
Stoute blamed the fast ground immediately after the race for Telescope’s Royal Ascot flop (although that contradicts his record as 3 of his 5 wins have been on Good to Firm – the other two being on Good). Given the current weather conditions, I don’t see the ground being any different for the KG and if the ground really is the issue that Stoute says it is would he even run him?
To me Telescope has always been a high class G2 horse that when upped into G1 races always finds one or two too good for him. Take Taghrooda out of last years race and you could easily mistake it for a top class G2 event. The only way he wins a KG is if the top horses bypass the race altogether, they employ a pacemaker for him and the ground is heavily watered if the current weather continues. Personally, connections should be looking to plunder some of Germany’s G1 races like Grosser Preis Von Baden (which automatically qualifies you for the Breeders Cup Turf) as historically they generally do not take as much winning.
Agreed about Telescope. Not sure he could win Baden-Baden either with the last few wins going to Danedream (2x), Novellist, Ivanhowe and this year also looks good with possibly German Derby dominator Nutan, unbeaten Italian Derby winner Goldstream, unbeaten Guineas winner Karpino, the unbeaten STS son Quassilo, and the rapidly improving four year old Ito. Honestly I think at least a few of them will prove better than him.
Nevertheless I often wonder why the British trainers don´t try the softer German group races more often. Maybe it´s a gentlemen´s agreement not to hurt the local breeding and trainers. Then AOB´s attempt to vulture the German Derby with some supplemented 2nd strings was a huge bust.
