GERMANY’s final Group 1 stayed at home as Santagada stayed on well to win the Group 1 Grosser Allianz Preis von Bayern over a mile and a half in Munich last Saturday.

The winner is a four-year-old daughter of Soldier Hollow, trained by Peter Schiergen and ridden by Bauyrzhan Murzabayev. She had finished fifth to Hotazhell and Wimbledon Hawkeye in the Group 1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis - Bayerisches Zuchtrennen in July. Here she beat Global Health by a half-length in a field of 10.

The most disappointing favourite was Owen Burrows’ Gethin, who had run Ombudsman to a neck in the Group 2 Star Sports Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown in May and been fancied for the Eclipse. He could only finish eighth of the 10 runners.

Stimulate improves, Ted Noffey to stud

BELMONT Park’s Dwyer Stakes is only a listed contest but it had a lot of interest in that it saw the return of last year’s unbeaten champion juvenile Ted Noffey last Sunday.

He missed the 2026 Triple Crown and most of his three-year-old season after being sidelined with bone bruising

In the end, it was a bit of a disappointment, the colt only finishing fifth of the eight runners, well behind impressive seven and a half-length winner Stimulate.

A son of the multiple Grade 1-winning mare Elate, Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider’s homebred son of Tapit was a decisive winner. Coming from fourth, he took charge in the stretch and motored to a seven and a half-length win from Sea Strike and in a decent time.

Trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Junior Alvarado, it was Stimulate’s third win in five starts. “Visually it was pretty good, I guess the time backed it up,” Mott said. Despite some graded prizes still available this season, Mott said Stimulate will head to Florida and point to a four-year-old campaign.

To stud

Later in the week, Spendthrift Farm announced that Ted Noffey will retire to stud for the 2027 breeding season, standing for a $60,000 fee with a stands-and-nurses guarantee.

Outstanding juvenile

Ted Noffey was the outstanding juvenile of 2025. The son of Into Mischief broke his maiden at Saratoga before delivering a dominant eight and a half-length victory in the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes. He then won in the Grade Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland by two and three-quarter lengths before capping his unbeaten season with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar.

France

THE Listed Prix Solitude for fillies at Saint-Cloud on Sunday might have been a pretty good name for a last throw of the dice in the flat season and it gave another success to the Muisidora winner Legacy Link.

The Oaks runner-up surprisingly didn’t even go off favourite for the 10-furlong contest, having been beaten at Royal Ascot and in the Yorkshire Oaks. The race was run on very soft ground but she ran on well under Colin Keane to win by two lengths from Aurora Beau Real, for Juddmonte and John and Thady Gosden.

The two Irish-trained didn’t figure at the finish. ohnny Murtagh’s Vanir was an early leader but weakened once headed over two furlongs out and finished seventh. One place behind her was Donnacha O’Brien’s Glyfada.

Italy

JAMES Doyle and Wathan Racing had better luck last Sunday in Italy at Capannelle when Ed Walker-trained Fast Tracker justified favouritism in the 10-furlong Group 3 Premio Roma Italian Champion. The winner had been third to Zavateri in the Group 2 Celbration Mile and won Ayr’s Listed Doonside Cup impressively.

He was not the only British runner as Pathein for Ed Dunlop and Ryan Moore finished fourth.