Five-year-old Tiger Hill entire Oriental Tiger ran out the two-length winner of the €50,000 G3 Grand Prix Aufgalopp over 11 furlongs at Cologne on Sunday.
Out of the Big Shuffle mare Oriental Flower, Oriental Tiger was bred by Gestut Auenquelle and has excellent black type credentials. He has been placed six times in stakes company up to G1 level, when he was third in the 2006 Deutsches Derby.
Tiger Hill, who stood his first season for Darley in 2006, has an exciting bunch of yearlings to look forward to this year, including the produce of Petrushka, Volvoretta, Rebecca Sharp, Zanzibar and May Ball.
His black type performers already this season include Abbashiva, who is entered for both the German 2000 Guineas and Derby equivalents.
Tiger Hill is standing at Kildangan Stud in Ireland for the first time this year at a fee of €20,000, 1 October, Special Live Foal.
The Classic trials are now under way in Europe with Leopardstown hosting Guineas trials in Ireland on Sunday. Moiqen, by Red Ransom was runner-up in the G3 2000 Guineas Trial on his seasonal debut. The Shadwell-bred colt won a maiden at Navan last season on his second start.
Red Ransom's Listed-winning daughter Muthabara has been the subject of a recent plunge in the betting for the 1000 Guineas and is currently second favourite at 6/1.
Hatta Fort, who won the G2 Superlative Stakes at last year's Newmarket July meeting, resumed racing on Sunday on the other side of the Atlantic. The Cape Cross three-year-old came with a rallying late run in the Listed Lafayette Stakes on Keeneland's Polytrack surface to be beaten a nose on his first run for Godolphin. Out of the Barathea mare Oshiponga, Hatta Fort was bred by James and Marie-Dominique Stewart of Wellsummers Farm near Marlborough.
