Torquator Tasso's younger sibling streaks to stunning ten-length Group 1 victory

Tunnes underlined his status as one of the most exciting horses in Germany on Sunday, when running away with the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Bayern at Munich.

Tunnes, Torquator Tasso’s half-brother by Guiliani - and his sire’s first top-level winner - led throughout the mile and a half test under Bauyrzhan Murzabayev, and while Dubawi’s son Well Disposed threw down a challenge in the straight, he was no match for his fellow three-year-old and went down by ten lengths.

The Peter Schiergen-trained winner had already taken a BBAG sales race - he was bought there at the 2020 yearling sale by Holger Renz for €38,000, in whose colours he runs - and the German St Leger by big margins, and this was a step up again in stronger company. He was given a quote of 25-1 for the 2023 Arc by bet365.

Although there were only five runners, Godolphin fielded Siskany (who was third) and Ralph Beckett Albaflora (fourth), and following the heroics of Rebel’s Romance in the Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland the previous day, this weekend can definitely be considered another feather in the German racing cap.

Like Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe Arc hero Torquator Tasso - who was second in this race in 2020 - Tunnes was bred by Paul Vandeberg out of Toylsome’s daughter Tijuana and hails from a productive branch of a maternal line that goes back to Urban Sea’s dam Allegretta. He is inbred 3x3 to Turbaine, a half-sister to Allegretta.

Torquator Tasso, who was retired after finishing an honourable third when attempting to defend his crown in the Arc last month, will stand at Gestut Auenquelle at a fee of €20,000 next year.

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