The final point was appropriately put by a horse from the Riemer training center. The three-year-old Leonello, trained by Werner Glanz, won the last race of the year over 2,200m. “I wanted to take advantage of the good start and go from the front with the light weight,” jockey Maxim Pecheur described his tactic. “Fortunately, it worked out in the end.” The 2023 racing year begins again in Riem on May 1st. The important Bavarian Classic Derby preliminary test is the focus.
“7gewinnt!” with record turnover
Pecheur has already played an important role in the new “7gewinnt!” bet, which is gaining momentum. In a handicap III over 1,400m, he steered the 37.8:1 outsider Saphira Dream (trainer Michael Figge) to success. However, this dashed hopes early on that the “7gewinnt” bet, in which the aim is to correctly predict seven winners in a row, would be successful for the first time in its fourth round.
The betting turnover in the new betting type alone was 192,000 euros – that’s more than four times as much as at the premiere. Now a jackpot of 255,000 euros is heading to Baden-Baden for the season finale there on December 3. “We have done good preparatory work for Baden Galopp,” says Multerer, who initiated the “7gewinnt!” bet together with betting expert and horse owner Christian Sundermann.
Wöhler horses one-two in the Grand Autumn Prize
The sporting highlight of the season finale was the Isfahan Grand Autumn Prize, a listed race over 2,200m with prize money of 22,500 euros. The race is named after the Derby winner and stallion Isfahan owned by Darius Racing. Trainer Andreas Wöhler had sent two horses, Wiesentau and Lajoscha, on the long journey from Gütersloh to Munich, but the journey was worth it.
The four-year-old Wiesentau owned by the Ravensberg stud farm won very comfortably by three lengths ahead of his stablemate Lajoscha, who snatched second place from Duke of Lips on the finish line. “Wiesentau loves the soft ground and is simply a good horse,” said winning rider Jozef Bojko. The odds for victory were 2.2:1.
Two victories for Seidl and Figge
The Riemer trainer Figge was able to celebrate a winner at the start. The two-year-old mare Snow Late won a test over 1,400m by 13 lengths ahead of the favorite Someone You Loved. “The superiority was surprising,” said Figge. “That she won was not really surprising, she performed well in training.” The winning rider on Snow Late was Martin Seidl. The jockey then scored points with the three-year-old mare Sayulita, who is being prepared by Jean-Pierre Carvalho in Mülheim an der Ruhr, in a race over 2,000m.
In the last race of the LUIMEX Bavarian Amateur Championship, the 12.1:1 chance Zeven Falls from Christian Sprengel’s stable won with Swen Straßmeier in the saddle. With second place on Picnic En Ville, Janina Boysen secured the championship title ahead of Anna-Lena Weidler and Konstantin Philipp.
There was another small honor: his hat and long white beard are his trademarks – Michael Marx has been a member of the Munich Racing Club since 1968 and did not miss the race day on his 76th birthday today. “As always, because racing in Munich without Michael Marx is actually unimaginable
,” said Managing Director Multerer about the racing club’s longest active member. Marx has also worked as an official in various roles over the decades, including race management.
