THE Berlin racetrack Hoppegarten stages its top meeting of the year this weekend, with tomorrow’s Group 1 Grosser Preis von Berlin the main feature.

Three German-trained runners have been declared and also three foreign raiders, and it seems highly likely that the bulk of the prize money will go abroad. Godolphin won the race last year with Best Solution and this time have supplemented Old Persian, winner of the lucrative Sheema Classic in March. He has only run once since, and badly at that, when well beaten in the Coronation Cup at Epsom, but he was clearly not right that day, and if back to his Meydan best, looks the one to beat.