Andrasch Starke, the experienced jockey, had the right nose: from the four gallops that champion trainer Henk Grewe brought up at the 152nd derby, he chose Sisfahan - and won the most important German horse race on the Hamburg-Horn racecourse on Sunday.

It was only the fourth race in the horse's career that developed tremendous power on the outside in the final sprint and sprinted over the favorite Old Eagle (jockey Theo Bachelot).

“The Grewe team brought me in to win the derby,” said the 47-year-old jockey with satisfaction.

It is the first derby victory for the Cologne coach - for Starke already the eighth and thus a record: He drew level with the record holder Gerhard Streit.

Evi Simeoni

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    Sisfahan, son of the 2016 derby winner, Isfahan, was only able to contest his first race of the season four weeks ago in Düsseldorf due to an infection. There, before the start, Darius Racing bought it, behind which the chemical and pharmaceutical manager Stefan Oschmann and his wife Schahpar stand. “I knew what he was made of,” said Starke, “and I had confidence in him.” Third in the race over 2400 meters, which is only open to three-year-old horses and was fully occupied with 20 horses, was Imi with the Amazon Sibylle Vogt in the saddle.

    On Saturday, Torquator Tasso, who was second in the Derby last year, proved his top position in Germany. With Rene Peichulek in the saddle, the “Galopper of the Year 2020” won the Grand Hansa Prize, endowed with 44,000 euros, over 2,400 meters with an impressive four and a half lengths ahead. Marcel Weiß trains the winner in Mülheim (Ruhr) for the Auenquelle (Rödinghausen) stud farm of the Endres and Ellerbracke families. "That looked really good, the way he accelerated in the home straight," said the coach. At the eighth start it was the third victory of the stallion, whose main goal of the season is the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on the first Sunday of October in Paris-Longchamp.