There could not have been a more fitting winner at the 31st Unity Prize: Jockey Alexander Pietsch began his training in Hoppegarten in 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. 31 years later, as a 49-year-old, he celebrated the symbolic race with his favorite stallion Grocer Jack, in total it was his 1194th triumph as a rider. “Winning in front of my people was great,” Pietsch called into the microphone while still on the back of his victorious horse. The mares Stex and Chilly Filly followed on the other places.
8,000 spectators were allowed. And not only because of the triumph of the audience’s favorite, they created the exuberant atmosphere that is so typical for the emotional climax of the season at the Brandenburg racecourse. The subsequent switch to Paris provided a special moment, where the most important horse race in the world started with the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe right after the unit price.
The German racehorse Torquator Tasso sensationally prevailed over the high-class competition, winner of the Berlin Grand Prix last year. Which for some fans put even more strain on the pulse than watching whether the horse that was being bet wins.
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