THE six-year-old mare Tiffany, Sir Mark Prescott’s perennial bridesmaid finally won her first Group 1 in a thrilling renewal of the Grosser Preis von Berlin at Hoppegarten last Sunday.

Owned and bred by Elite Racing, the Farhh mare had filled the runner-up spot three times in top-level races in Germany between November 2024 and November 2025 and has continued in the same vein this season, finishing second on her reappearance in a French listed race and again in the Lancashire Oaks at Newmarket.

But Tiffany finally hit the jackpot under a power-packed ride from Luke Morris, narrowly denying the late thrust of the home-trained Bright Light, with Saeed bin Suroor’s pair of Dubai Future and the long-absent Tornado Alert close up in third and fourth respectively.

Thrilled for the horse

Prescott told the Press Association from Newmarket: “When people say they’re thrilled for the horse they often don’t mean it, but I do, because when you’ve been three times runner-up in a Group 1 you deserve it don’t you?

“Luck was on her side today. She got the most beautiful ride and they all came off the rail, which is unusual there. She got a wonderful run through, so she had a bit of luck and a good jockey.

“Elite Racing are good breeders. They bred Marsha (dual Group 1-winning sprinter) and sent her to me and from a very small group of mares they do very well. It’s a great day.”

Connections look set to get even more ambitious later in the year, with a couple of flat racing’s flagship events now on the table.

“She’s won her Group 1 and whether you get brave and go to America for the Breeders’ Cup or you go brave and run in the Arc, I don’t know, but you’ll do something quite brave because she’s done all the rest,” Prescott added.

“She’s got lines and lines of blacktype and now she’s got her Group 1.”