IT is something of a mouthful to say, the Grosser Dallmayr-Preis Bayerisches Zuchtrennan, but this Group 1 race at Munich has been won by some top international runners in the past decade, and in the more distant past.

Three years ago it was won by the globetrotting Nations Pride, was his second win at the highest level, and he would go on to add another two, and earn a shade more than £3 million. This year’s winner, Hotazhell (Too Darn Hot), has a way to go to match these achievements, but with a carefully planned campaign he could carry the Silverton Hill Partnership’s colours to valuable successes around the world. Trainer Jessica Harrington has now saddled a Group 1 winner every year since 2018, with one exception.

The Cartier Award of Merit honouree is one of the greatest dual-purpose trainers in the history of racing.

One thing missing on Harrington’s extensive list of major wins is a Grade 1 success in the USA, and Hotazhell will surely have a trip to the Breeders’ Cup as a late season target now that he has got back his winning mojo.

This was just the four-year-old colt’s fifth victory, the others all coming at the age of two. That season saw him race six times, beat Delacroix a nose in the Group 1 William Hill Futurity, defeated Group 1 winner Tennessee Stud in the Group 2 Beresford Stakes at the Curragh, and ran Henri Matisse to a length in another Group 2.

Tight finish

While his three-year-old form figures of 35440 might look poor, he finished third in the Group 1 Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas to Field Of Gold, and was less than two lengths off the winner, having dwelt at the start, in the Grade 1 Saratoga Derby. He failed to win on his first two outings of 2026, but showed the benefit of those runs when getting home in a tight finish at the weekend. Hopefully this is the start of a major comeback.

Bred by Blue Diamond Stud Farm (UK) Limited, Hotazhell first sold for 70,000gns as a yearling when bought by Linehan Bloodstock, operated by Eddie Linehan at his Lackendarra Stables in Glantane, near Mallow, Co Cork. He went on to become a profitable 200,000gns pinhook the following spring at the Craven Breeze Up Sale.

Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) is rapidly progressing in the stallion ranks, thanks in no small way to having four international Group or Grade 1 winners this year. In July he got the Belmont Derby winner Title Role, and before that sired Native Approach, winner of the Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan, while Tropicus won the Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield in Australia. He sired multiple Group 1 winner Fallen Angel from his first crop, Broadsiding is a four-time Group 1 winner in Australia, and 12 months ago Tornado Alert won the Group 1 Hotazhell captured on Sunday.

Four winners

Hotazhell is one of four winners out of Azenzar (Danehill Dancer), and the seventh of her first eight foals. That number could grow if the three-year-old Stock Market (No Nay Never) can get his head in front for trainer Tony Carroll. He gave 9,000gns for the gelding last autumn after the 380,000gns yearling had shown only faint glimmers of ability for Aidan O’Brien. He has placed on three of his last four starts for Carroll.

Azenzar was sold for export at the 2023 December Sale for 16,000gns to Dr Khaled Salami’s KGS Bloodstock, daylight robbery given that she was covered by Blackbeard (No Nay Never) whose stud fee that season was €25,000! We now know how well Blackbeard is doing, though there is no record of a foal out of the mare. Azenzar was a winner, and she has matched the record of her unraced dam Dashing (Sadler’s Wells), also responsible for four winners. Dashing sold eight years ago to KGS Bloodstock for 800gns. No further record of any progeny is recorded.

Dashing, who was bought as a three-year-old filly by Tony Nerses for 420,000gns, is a half-sister to the outstanding Alexander Goldrun (Gold Away) and the classic-placed sire Medecis (Machiavellian). Noel O’Callaghan’s Alexander Goldrun’s racing career took her around the world.

She won 10 races, among them two editions of the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh, the Group 1 Nassau Stakes at Goodwood, the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp, and her most valuable win was in the Group 1 Hong Kong Cup in Sha Tin.

She was runner-up in five Group 1 contests and third in the same number of such races.

Dermot Cantillon

Alexander Goldrun’s career winnings of more than £1.9 million was quite a dividend for the €40,000 she cost as a foal when purchased from her breeder, Dermot Cantillon. She was not just a money-making racemare, but as a broodmare she has had stock sell from O’Callaghan’s Mountarmstrong Stud for €1.7 million, 950,000gns, 500,000gns, €600,000 and 400,000gns.

Her most expensive was Goldrush (Frankel) who won three of her four starts, two of them listed races at Dundalk.

Medecis was runner-up in the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains-French 2000 Guineas and was a neck second in the Group 1 Prix de la Foret. A Group 3 winner, he started his stallion career at the Irish National Stud before moving to France.

He died at the age of 15, and enjoyed only moderate success in his second career.