Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen

The flour - Mühlens race (also German 2000 Guineas ) is a horse race over 1600m for three -year old stallions and mares, which takes place every year in Cologne. It is named after the family Mühlens from Cologne. Until 1985 it was called the Henckel race. It, together with the German Derby and the German St. Leger, the so-called Triple Crown.

History

1871, the first founded by Count Henckel von Donnersmarck Henckel race took place. The race was 1871-1917 and 1923-1944 held in Hoppe Garden, intervening in Berlin -Grunewald. After the Second World War, there was one time each in Dusseldorf (1947 ), Cologne (1948) and Dortmund ( 1949) instead. From 1950 to 1985, the race from the Gelsenkirchen club racing was staged in Gelsenkirchen, but this came as organizers of the sponsor -less race into economic difficulties.

Maria died in 1985 Flour Mühlens, the daughter of Peter Paul Mühlens, the founder of the existing since 1924 Thoroughbred Stud Röttgen. She had built to defend their life's work, a foundation that defines the contract that in Cologne a race for three year old horses to be run, which bears the name of flour Mühlens. From 1986 the race was now gone in no more than Memorial for an old Silesian noble family, but to the memory of a grande dame of German and European thoroughbred sport.

The stud had Röttgen Peter Paul Mühlens founded in 1924 in Heumar not far from Cologne, it is one of the most important thoroughbred stud farms in Germany. As early as 1932 he could pick up with his first Derby winner Palace Page from the turf. Röttgen is also the kennel of the stallion Star Appeal, the first and for a long time the only German horse won the Prix de l' Arc de Triomphe in the colors of Waldemar Zeitelhack 1975.

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