Rivals of the racetrack

Television series
German title	Rivals of the racetrack
Original title	Rivals of the racetrack
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
year	1989
length	45 minutes
Episodes	11
genre	Family series
music	Dieter Bohlen
First broadcast	March 30, 1989 ( ZDF )
occupation
Thomas Fritsch : Christian Adler Jutta Speidel : Monika Adler Manfred Zapatka : Hans-Otto Gruber Maja Maranow : Sylvia Gruber Margot Hielscher : Countess Louise Hayn-Hohenstein Hellmut Lange : Wolf Kremer Ilse Werner : Aunt Ella Hans Clarin : Rolf Lesch Radost Bokel : Margit Franke Zacharias Preen : Klaus Schmittgen Thekla Carola Wied : Thea Waasing Ferdy Mayne : Emanuel von Rödermark Tilly Lauenstein : Rosalinde von Rödermark Pierre Franckh : Bruno Adler Horst Frank : Zielmann Wolf-Dietrich Berg : Bernhard Schadenstedt Margret Homeyer : Theresa Jürgen Draeger : Dieter Homburg Achim Sauter : Butler James

Rivals of the Racetrack is a German television series from 1989 with a total of eleven episodes. The director was Stefan Bartmann .

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The successful jockey Christian Adler mysteriously falls from his horse and injures himself so badly that he has to end his active career. Louise Countess Hayn-Hohenstein then tries to use his knowledge and experience for herself and offers Christian the management of her stable together with the previous manager Wolf Kremer. Business was initially good, especially when the well-known horse owner Hans-Otto Gruber, husband of a Christian affair, left the stable with four horses for training. But the trouble is foreseeable, a brutal game of intrigue around equestrian sport begins.

See also:
Five years earlier, the WDR had a similar series, all about equestrian sport, produced for the evening program: " Turf - Almost Impossible Stories" .

Episodes

No.	Episode title	Date of first broadcast
1	Winner and Loser	March 30, 1989
2	The assassination	April 1, 1989
3	partner	April 8, 1989
4th	Suspicion	April 15, 1989
5	The investigation	April 22, 1989
6th	Thunderclouds	April 29, 1989
7th	The doppelganger	May 6, 1989
8th	Dangerous game	May 13, 1989
9	The future race	May 20, 1989
10	By a thread	May 27, 1989
11	Ultimate test	June 3, 1989

Soundtrack

Track list

CD Hansa , 1989

1. Countdown GTO - Rivals of the Racetrack (Instrumental) - 2:40
2. Nino de Angelo - Samuraj - 3:55
3. Les McKeown - It's a Game (Long Version) - 5:30
4. Marianne Rosenberg - I Need Your Love Tonight - 3:43
5. Countdown GTO - Magic Race (Instrumental, Long Version) - 6:20
6. Ricky Shayne - Once I'm Gonna Stay Forever (Long Version) - 5:29
7. Blue System - Love Suite - 3:12
8. Ann Turner - I'm Your Lady - 3:12
9. Nino de Angelo - Don't Kill It Carol - 3:30
10. Countdown GTO - Samuraj (instrumental) - 3:55
11. Countdown GTO - Rivals of the Racetrack (recapitulation, instrumental) - 1:27

Chart placements

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1990	Rivals of the racetrack	DE2 platinum (27 weeks)DE	AT4th gold (15 weeks)AT	CH5 gold (15 weeks)CH

Singles

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
1989	I need your love tonight	DE56 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	Marianne Rosenberg
	Love suite	DE14 (12 weeks) DE	-	-	Blue system
	Samuraj	DE11 (13 weeks) DE	-	-	Nino de Angelo
	It's a game	DE33 (9 weeks) DE	-	-	Les McKeown

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1. ↑ Soundtrack release info
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Album / I Need Your Love Tonight Love Suite Samuraj It's a Game
3. ↑ ^{a b} gold / platinum databases: DE AT CH

Web links

• http://www.rivalen-der-rennbahn.de/
• Rivals the racetrack in the Internet Movie Database (English)