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Germany: Knife Edge bids to emulate Excelebration

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Tasleet

Kinfe Edge was edged out by Tasleet in the Greenham at Chelmsford

  PICTURE: Edward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)  

 By David Conolly-Smith 7:00aM 16 MAY 2016 

Marco Botti’s Knife Edge (Ryan Moore) attempts at Cologne on Monday to become the eighth British-trained winner of the Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen (German 2,000 Guineas) this century.

Botti trained last year´s runner-up Fanciful Angel, but more significantly won this race in 2011 with Excelebration, who went on to become the second-best miler in the world.

Like that one, Knife Edge has finished second in the Greenham Stakes on his previous start, but with two slight differences: the race was run this year on the all-weather at Chelmsford City, instead of waterlogged Newbury, and the 2011 winner was of course Frankel, whom Excelebration spent most of the season unavailingly chasing.

The Greenham winner Tasleet scored by a short head and is clearly no Frankel, but Botti immediately named the Cologne race as Knife Edge’s next target and the form was given a huge boost when Log Out Island, fully twelve lengths behind that pair at Chelmsford, was a runaway winner of the Carnarvon Stakes on Saturday.

Botti reports that all is well with his Coolmore-owned colt and said: “He’s in great order and has come on again since the Greenham. He should have a squeak – they’re not superstars- and the mile won’t be a problem, nor the good ground.”

Millowitsch hoping not to provide any laughs

In fact, the ground should be on the easy side following a wet weekend and local bookies make Knife Edge second favourite at around 3-1 behind Millowitsch (Markus Klug/ Andreas Helfenbein) who has won four of his five starts, including the main trial for this event, the Dr. Busch-Memorial.

He is also very popular with the local racefans as he is named after a celebrated Cologne comedian. However the Dr. Busch was a messy race, and it would be no surprise to see Noor Al Hawa (Andreas Wöhler/ Eduardo Pedroza) and Molly King (Jens Hirschberger/ Alexander Pietsch), third and sixth respectively, finish much closer this time.

Klug has in any case a second string to his bow in Degas (Adrie de Vries), who is owned by the race sponsors; he was runner-up in the Preis des Winterfavoriten last year and won his only race this season in very promising style- both races over this course and distance.

Wöhler pair also in frame

Wöhler is also double-handed, but Royal Shaheen (Jose Silverio), also owned by Jaber Abdullah, looksd a clear second string, and local trainer Andreas Löwe also has two runners, Baroncello (Andrasch Starke) and Veneto (Rafael Schistl), both winners of their only start this season but well held on ratings.

Danish hope Omar Bradley (Flemming Velin/ Per-Anders Graberg), group-placed in France when trained there last year, is difficult to assess, but of much great interest could be Parvaneh (Waldemar Hickst/ Marc Lerner), the only filly in the field of ten.

The last filly to win this race was Aubergine in 1949 and few have tried since, but she must have a definite chance judging by the way she won the Schwarzgold-Rennen over this course and distance a month ago.

There is probably not a great deal betwen the main local contenders, and Knife Edge, in view of his trainer´s record here, his top jockey and Saturday´s boost to the form, has much more than a “squeak”; he arguably would not need to be another Excelebration to win here.

 

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