It’s a premium race day, as you’d expect from a book: Nine races, all with a minimum purse of €15,000, will be held next Sunday at the Munich-Riem racecourse. The highlight: the Grand Dallmayr Prize, featuring a top-class international lineup and Derby-winning rider Nina Baltromei, who aims to make more history.
Since 1996, the Dallmayr delicatessen and coffee house has taken over the Bavarian Breeding Race, which has been held since 1866. “This long-standing partnership is unusual in German horse racing,” emphasizes Sascha Multerer, Managing Director of the Munich Racing Club. Thanks to Dallmayr, the last Sunday in July is a horse racing festival that enjoys international acclaim.
Strong guests from England and France
The field of this year’s Grand Dallmayr Prize (race 6, start 2:10 p.m.), which has a total prize money of €155,000, can be described as sensational: Six guests from England and France will compete against five horses trained in Germany. Among them is last year’s winner, Calif, who was bred in Germany but is trained in France by Carlos Lerner. Also arriving from the neighboring country is the four-year-old Map Of Stars, trained by Francis-Henri Graffard. This is the first German start for a horse from Wathnan Racing, which is backed by the Emir of Qatar. With substantial investments, the sheikh has recently won several top races, particularly in England.
The German participants are more likely to be outsiders. Two will nevertheless attract a lot of attention. First, there’s the local hero Quest The Moon. The nine-year-old gelding, trained by Sarah Steinberg in Riem, follows the old VW Beetle motto: “He runs and runs and runs.” And he’s still doing it successfully: At the beginning of the month, he won another Group race in Hamburg.
Petit Marin, “only” six years old and also a Group winner, is likely to attract interest primarily because of his rider: 27-year-old Nina Baltromei, after her historic Derby victory, is the first woman in the saddle to win another Group I race. Her Derby horse, Hochkönig, is currently on a break, but the third-place finisher from the Derby, the three-year-old Lazio, trained by Waldemar Hickst, will be competing.
The Grand Dallmayr Prize is included in the World Pool, which is controlled from Hong Kong, and is expected to generate millions in betting turnover worldwide. The first six races of the day will be broadcast by the French betting company PMU. The first race will therefore start at 11:13 a.m.
Dallmayr gift baskets and lucrative betting opportunities
“Arriving early is worth it,” emphasizes Multerer. From a sporting perspective, the Konrad Werner Wille Memorial, a Listed race over 1,400m with prize money of €25,000, featuring 14 three-year-old and older mares, including six from France and England, is worth highlighting. From a betting perspective, the four-way bet with a guaranteed payout of €13,333 in race 7 and the V4 bet for races 3 to 6, where the racing club guarantees €15,555, including a €3,000 jackpot, are worth highlighting.
Dallmayr is also offering a large gift basket and coffee raffle, as well as free coffee. And for younger visitors, the children’s area awaits with bouncy castles, a carousel, and a puppet theater.
