There’s another important day of racing to look forward to at Köln, on Sunday, where the feature contest will be the G2 Union-Rennen. This is a 2,200m event, for 3-year-olds and a major Deutsches Derby trial. Our ante-post market is already live.
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Horses to have won this race include Surumu, Nebos, Acatenango, Novellist and Sea The Moon. Boscaccio landed the spoils for Christian Sprengel, in 2016.
Originally run at Tempelhof, this historic encounter was first run in 1834. It has since found homes at both Hoppegarten and Grunewald, before becoming a permanent Köln fixture in 1947. In 2017, it became the oldest surviving horse race in Germany.
Race Details
Oppenheim-Union-Rennen
Group 2 race for 3-year-olds
Distance: 2,200m
Purse: 70,000 EUR
Likely Runners: Colomano, Warring States, Shanjo, Monreal, Windstoss, Northsea Star, Khan & Oriental Khan.
Main Contenders
Markus Klug will be disappointed if one of his charges isn’t first past the post. Northsea Star, Windstoss, Shanjo and the Cacique-sired Colomano are all under the brilliant trainer’s command. Andreas Wöhler’s Warring States, winner of the Bavarian Classic, is the one most likely to really take the fight to Klug’s cavalry.
Racing At Köln
The track can be found at Weidenpescher Park and it is among the most-important in Germany (and the only one to host more than one European G1 pattern race). Here is a list of Köln’s big races…
G1:
Preis von Europa
Rheinland-Pokal
G2:
Gerling-Preis,
Grosse Europa-Meile
Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen
Oppenheim-Union-Rennen
G3:
Schwarzgold-Rennen
Silberne Peitsche
Preis des Winterfavoriten
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