The managing director of the Munich Racing Club, Sascha Multerer, was also very satisfied: “The mood is good, with a good attendance on a Monday afternoon and ideal weather. Our partners have some prominent guests with them, the concept of the Wies’n race day has once again been a complete success.”
Mendocino ready for the Arc
“We had guts for him,” said trainer Sarah Steinberg after the home success with Fantastic Moon. “It’s great that we’ve managed to win straight away.” The Steinberg/Piechulek duo, who are also a couple outside the racetrack, are currently riding a wave of success, having achieved an unexpected triumph in the Grand Prix of Baden with Mendocino at the beginning of the month. The four-year-old stallion is now set to run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Europe’s most important race, in Paris. “He coped well with Baden and as of now there’s nothing to stop him from starting,” said Steinberg today.
Piechulek, who won the Arc last October with Torquator Tasso, will be in the saddle of Mendocino, owned by Stall Salzburg. In Baden-Baden, however, Mendocino came in just ahead of the defending champion. The Arc victory made the Dessau native internationally famous, but he has long been part of the German jockey elite. He has proven this this year with victories in two competitions in the highest category Group I. Before Baden, he won the Grand Dallmayr Prize at the end of July in Riem for trainer Peter Schiergen on Derby winner Sammorca, who finished third in the Baden Grand Prix.
Pretty Girl: first start, a win
The Torquator Tasso racing colours of the Auenquelle stud farm were in the lead in the Handicap III with prize money of 6,000 euros, supported by the Munich Raiffeisenbank, over the arc distance of 2,400m. Pretty Girl (3.4:1), prepared by Roland Dzubasz in Berlin-Hoppegarten, completed her first start in a very dominant manner and won by eight lengths ahead of Astoria. “It’s a relief that everything worked out,” said Dzubasz after the confident ride by champion jockey Bauyrzhan Murzabayev. “Let’s see whether she goes straight into breeding or stays in training next year.”
Sarka Schütz, who also trains in Neuenhagen next to the capital’s race track, had a very successful afternoon. First, Lilli-Marie Engels on Atoso (3.9:1) won the “von Alm das Beste” race over 1,600m with ease, then Leon Wolff steered Moon Power (5.5:1) safely to victory in the Schloss Tüssling Prize, a handicap III over 1,600m.
More victories for the Riemer training center
But the Riemer training center was also able to continue celebrating: Michael Figge saddled the mare Aroaki (7.4:1) to the winner in amateur riding, the Luimex.de – Fourth round of the Bavarian Amateur Championship 2022, ridden by Helen Böhler. And Jutta Mayer gave Claudia Fleißner the “Jump off and win!” in the Duken & von Wangenheim race, a handicap IV over 1,400m. The amateur rider did this promptly with the five-year-old Adehaine (12.7:1), who won his first race at the 31st start!
At the end of the race day, the Prize of the Munich-Riem Golf Club, a handicap III over 1,600m, the only guest in the field of seven, Heyne’s Henry (3.0:1) with Jan Verner, prevailed. The trainer is Marco Angermann in Leipzig.
