Always kept at the back of the field by winning jockey Rene Piechulek, the four-year-old stallion developed enormous speed in the home straight and was able to narrowly overtake the favored Arc winner Torquator Tasso under Frankie Dettori and the Derby winner Sammarco, who had won the Grand Dallmayr Prize in Munich at the end of July. Mendocino’s victory was rewarded with 115,000 EUR. The stallion’s next stop is the most important horse race in the world, the Arc de Triomphe in Paris at the beginning of October, and a home start in the Grand Allianz Prize of Bavaria in Munich-Riem at the beginning of November.
