Tunnes tuned up for Coronation Cup challenge
German raider on course for Epsom raid.
Peter Schiergen’s Tunnes will fly the flag for Germany in Dahlbury Coronation Cup at Epsom on Friday. The four-year-old has an eye-catching pedigree as he is out Tijuana, the dam of 2021 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Torquator Tasso. Tunnes was a juvenile winner and then had a successful three-year-old season as he claimed the German St Leger and the Grosser Preis von Bayern in fairly quick succession as autumn approached. He then jetted to Tokyo to take on the Japan Cup, a Grade One race in which he finished ninth of 18 to wrap up his season.Congratulations to Tunnes, a half-brother to Torquator Tasso, for winning the Grosser Preis von Bayern (G1). pic.twitter.com/ZtR8bRNjJC
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This year he kicked off his campaign in the Carl Jaspers Preis, a Group Two held at Cologne, and came home second over the same one-mile-four-furlong trip he will encounter at Epsom on the first day of the Derby meeting. “He is good, he will run on Friday,” said Schiergen. “He had a break and after the break he started and was second, he was good, he’s improved and I’m happy in the mornings. “It was good enough for the first time, he wasn’t 100 per cent, he has improved and should be right now for Epsom.” Should his Coronation Cup bid go to plan, there may be a return to British turf on the agenda for Tunnes, with the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot pencilled in for later in the season. Schiergen said: “If he runs well,
we might plan to run him in the King George.”
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