SUNDAY’S Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen (German 2000 Guineas) was the most exciting race seen in Germany so far this year. It ended in a three-way photo-finish, with Jaber Abdullah’s homebred Poetic Dream (Andreas Wöhler/Eduardo Pedroza) getting up on the line to score by a neck from Newmarket raider Lockheed (William Haggas/Pat Cosgrave), with Empire Of The Star (Wöhler/Maxime Guyon) a short head away in third.

Lockheed had made almost the running, with Empire Of The Star in close attendance, and for most of the straight it looked as if this pair would fight out the finish. Pedroza had kept to the inside all the way round on Poetic Dream, but his prospects seemed hopeless when he had no room at all two furlongs out and he was in fact shuffled back to last place.