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The 152nd G1 Grosser Preis von Baden, set to be run on Sunday, Sept. 4, has attracted an international entry of 48 horses, including the defending champion and Arc hero Torquator Tasso (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}).

The German champion is joined on the list by last year's runner-up, the 2021 Deutsches Derby winner Sisfahan (Fr) (Isfahan {Ger}), as well as recent Baden-Baden Group 2 winner Alter Adler (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}).

A strong overseas entry for the 2,400m contest at Iffezheim includes last year's Irish Derby winner Hurricane Lane (Ire) ((Frankel {GB}) and his Godolphin stable-mate, the Breeders' Cup Turf winner Yibir (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}). Also potentially making the trip from Newmarket is Kirsten Rausing's Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}), trained by Sir Mark Prescott and the winner of three Group 1 races in Germany last year, and the Saudi-owned, William Haggas-trained Grocer Jack (Ger) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who started his career in Germany. Richard Hannon has entered Amo Racing's Mojo Star (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), who has been runner-up in the Derby, St Leger and Gold Cup.

Stephan Buchner, managing partner of Baden Galopp, said: “We are very happy with the outstanding number of entries for our highlight of the year. The response from home and abroad makes us look forward with great anticipation to a horseracing festival on September 4 on our beautiful racetrack.”

The €200,000 Grosser Preis von Baden is the feature race on the final day of Baden-Baden's 'Grosse Woche' which gets underway on Aug. 27.

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The name of the wonderful and deserving winner of the 2021 Arc De Triomphe worries me.

Why the letter 'R' at the end of the first noun? No-final-R Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) was another Italian poet who thought as big as Hollywood and wrote incredibly long epic poems about knights in shining armors and their girlfriends, like his (better) predecessor Ludovico Ariosto. I have asked a few Teutonic friends if “Torquator” means anything technical, colloquial or otherwise in German, to no avail. So word play is out.

Do only impressionable and nerdy Italian schoolchildren know Torquato Tasso? Well, not really, and here comes my first disclosure. My father briefly owned a part of a Group-1 winning son of American stallion Tasso (by Fappiano out of Ecstacism), the now obscure 1985 GI Breeders Cup Juvenile winner that photo-bombed William T. Young's legendary Storm Cat on that day of days. That half-ours horse had been named by his previous owner “Torrismondo”, just like an also now obscure tragedy by, yes, our poem-writing Torquato Tasso. Give English nobility its due: they know their foreign poets when they want to.

My second disclosure is that I put $2 on Torquator Tasso on Sunday. Because German horses do win the Arc from time to time, because horseracing is a splendidly unpredictable game, or, simply, just because.

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