LAST week’s ‘Grosse Woche’ at Baden-Baden, Germany’s most important meeting of the year, saw some exciting finishes, but not in the big race of the week, the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden, in which Guignol (Jean-Pierre Carvalho/Filip Minarik) made all the running to score by two and a half lengths from the favourite Iquitos, who just held Colomano by a short-head for second place.

This year’s Derby winner Windstoss was fourth, with the two Godolphin runners Best Solution and Prize Money disappointingly trailing the six-runner field. The going was much too fast for the Godolphin pair, who will now run in Australia.