But the long journey was worth it: With a lot of speed, the 2.5:1 favorite won the FÜNF HÖFE Prize, a handicap II. The sporting highlight of the “Frühschoppen” race day in Riem was over 1,600m and was endowed with total prize money of 13,000 euros.
50 percent of that went to the winning team from the Abrakadabra stable, a small group of owners from Bremen and Bremerhaven. “I actually wanted to run with two or three horses in Munich, but in the end only Asterix remained,” said trainer Vovcenko. “His start in Baden-Baden, when he came fourth, helped him enormously,” added winning rider Gavin Ashton. “That’s great.”
Free beer makes the stables cheer O’zapft is!
The young Brit also won the two three-year-old tests of the day. With the mare Northern Starlet (8.2:1) he won over 2,200m for the El Sur Racing stable and with Freibier over 1,600m for the O’zapft stable. “She’s a fighter,” said Ashton about Northern Starlet, and about Freibier he explained: “The pace was actually too high for him, but in the end he handled it well,” said Ashton about the 2.7:1 winner. Both horses are trained by Michael Figge in Munich-Riem.
In the final bend of the 1,600m race, the favorite Shayan slipped and his rider Michael Cadeddu fell. He injured his knee and had to cancel his remaining rides of the day. The racing club reacted immediately and had the bend re-stacked.
“The safety of horse and rider comes first, everyone will understand that,” said managing director Sascha Multerer, who was pleased with the good attendance and atmosphere on this early, summer race day with free beer and white sausages. “The second attempt with the V4 bet also worked, we easily reached the turnover for the guaranteed 10,000 Euro payout,” said Multerer.
V4 bet and four-way bet hit
In this type of bet, which has so far only been played in Munich in Germany, the aim is to correctly predict the winners in four consecutive races. In addition to Asterix and Freibier, these were the three-year-old Fortenzo, who won the Luimex.de.Rennen, the first race of the Bavarian Amateur Championship, over 2,200m, with Swen Straßmeier (8.1:1). Michael Figge is also responsible for this.
There was also a Riemer home victory at the end of the V4 bet by the four-year-old New Diamond (8.1:1) in the Prize of the Faschingsgesellschaft Hollaria Augsburg, a handicap III over 2,000m. The gelding, ridden by Suichi Terachi, only has one eye. But according to his trainer Werner Glanz, that doesn’t bother him much: “He is a bit more skittish than his stablemates, though.”
The V4 bet was successful and brought in 1,252.9 euros for a stake of one euro. The odds were even higher in the four-way bet, where the important thing is to pick the first four horses in a race in the correct order: That was New Diamond ahead of Queen’s Harry, Scarlet and Aoraki. The odds were 1,967.1:1.
The next race day in Riem is on Monday, July 3rd – the racing club and Auto Häusler invite you to spend a relaxed and entertaining late summer afternoon.
