Riem racecourse

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Riem racecourse
Galopprennbahn Riem from the air
horse race

The Riem racecourse has been operated by the Munich racing club founded in 1865 since 1897 . In earlier times horse races were held on the world-famous Theresienwiese or on the Oberwiesenfeld . Later there was a racetrack behind the Friedenheimer Bridge . On Agnes-Bernauer-Strasse there was an inn Zur Rennbahn from this time until the early 2000s . Today the Riem racecourse is the only horse racing track in Bavaria and is home to the second largest training area in Germany. In addition, the railway is one of the most important in Germany.

The track has a circumference of approx. 1860 m, the race tracks are 1000 m (straight track) to 2800 m in flat races. Around 230 horses are currently being looked after by eight trainers on the racing club's own training track. There are 13 racing days a year, from the beginning of April to the beginning of November.

Of the seven Group I races held in Germany , two are run in Munich , the Great Dallmayr Prize - Bavarian breeding race over 2000 m (end of July / beginning of August), and the Bavarian Grand Prix over 2400 m, both for three-year-olds and older horses. There are always top European gallops at the start. So pursued z. For example, on his first (and so far only) German race track visit, Karim Aga Khan IV. , One of the world's largest racing team owners, won the victory of his gray mare Timarida, who followed this victory with further Group I victories around the world.

The highlight of the spring season is the Silver Whip, a Group III sprint over 1300 m, as well as the Bavarian Classic - oneXtwo.com Group III - ran for the first time in 1969 as the Grand Hertie Prize, as the race was then called for many years. It has quickly established itself as an important Derby preliminary test: the first five winners in Hertie price and then won the Bavarian breeding race (then also like Bavarian Derby called) until Athenagoras, the winner in the sixth year, the German Derby in Hamburg won . Acatenango in 1985 and Samum in 2000 followed suit . In 2005, Arcadio, the overwhelming winner of this race, was one of Hamburg's favorites. One of the most successful gallopers of all time, Monsun from the Munich stud Isarland also won the Great Hertie Prize here and thus secured a triumph in front of a home crowd. Meanwhile, Monsun is one of the most successful stallions of all time worldwide.

In 2011 the big European mile was new in the Munich racing calendar. The group III exam is endowed with 55,000 euros and heralds the fall season in mid-September. This race day also played a very special role, especially since the Bavarian Aviator Prize also attracts class horses to Munich on this day.

In October the Nereide race (LR) takes place in memory of one of the most important racehorses from German breeding: Nereide has won all of her races including the German Derby in Hamburg, but the best performance is likely to be the victory in the race for the brown ribbon of Germany was in Munich-Riem when she conquered the Corrida, considered unbeatable and considered the best horse in Europe at the time. This Nereide race was previously run in Gelsenkirchen, after this racetrack was closed, the Munich racing club took over this race.

Once, in 1946, the German Derby took place in Riem because the previous venue, the Hamburg-Horn racecourse , was not suitable for racing. The winner was solo; the following year the Cologne racecourse was the venue, but a Bavarian horse, single player, won there.

In 1967 and 1972 the Olympic Prize was run in Munich. While the 1967 event was endowed like a “better race”, the 1972 event was endowed with 250,000 Deutschmarks. The Olympic Prize was thus one of the most valuable races run in Germany. (Only the Derby in Hamburg-Horn with 284,950 D-Marks and the Prize of Europe with 436,800 D-Marks were more valuable. The Grand Prix of Baden, the most famous German gallop race, was less endowed with 200,000 D-Marks.) The winner was the strolling stallion Lombard with Fritz Drechsler in the saddle in front of Tarim, the derby winner from 1972, and the mare Rocaille owned by Anneliese Seitz from Munich.

The last obstacle races were run in Munich in 2005. The crisis in the German turf makes it more and more difficult to hold races and especially obstacle races.

During a race on June 23, 1899, Duke Siegfried in Bavaria (1876–1952) fell so unhappily on the Munich Riem racecourse that he suffered permanent brain damage and became mentally ill.

See also

Web links

Commons : Galopprennbahn Riem  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Austrian National Library -Anno, Innsbruck News May 8, 1873

Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 10 ″  E