{"id":447942,"date":"2025-09-24T12:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447942\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:52:16","slug":"sir-mark-prescott-taking-familiar-german-route-with-tiffany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447942\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Mark Prescott taking familiar German route with Tiffany"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sir Mark Prescott-trained five-year-old progressed through the ranks last season and ended the campaign competing at the highest level, with a placed effort behind Prix de l\u2019Arc de Triomphe hopeful Kalpana on British Champions Day followed by an agonising reversal in Munich.<\/p>\n

Connections were then dealt a blow with a setback suffered earlier in the spring, halting Tiffany\u2019s quest for further riches so far this season.<\/p>\n

\"TrainerTrainer Sir Mark Prescott will saddle Tiffany at Cologne on Sunday (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n

However, the Elite Racing Club-owned star is now ready to make up for lost time and having electing against taking the short trip from Prescott\u2019s Newmarket base to the Rowley Mile for Friday\u2019s Princess Royal Stakes, Tiffany will continue dining at the top table in Cologne.<\/p>\n

Prescot explained: \u201cShe will run in Germany and although she would be favourite for the Group Three in Newmarket with all sorts of good reasons to go there, she was kept in training to try to win a Group One and she\u2019s been placed in two of them, so it was decided, quite rightly, to go to Germany and try to win one there.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had a hairline crack to a vertebra in the spring which was very unusual, she had very slight lameness but it was there and we scanned her and that was the reason we discovered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019d have loved to have had two or three runs in the spring, then a breather, then two or three in the autumn but I\u2019m afraid nature decreed it was a longer break than we anticipated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TiffanyTiffany was seen on the gallops during the Henry Cecil Newmarket Open Day (Adam Morgan\/PA)<\/p>\n

Germany has proved a happy hunting ground for Tiffany over the course of her career and amongst her seven victories in 13 career starts are two wins at Baden-Baden and one in Hannover, as well as last year\u2019s season-ending near-miss in the Preis von Bayern.<\/p>\n

Going one better in that mid-November Group One is an option available once again for the daughter of Farhh, who retains an entry for the Prix de l\u2019Arc de Triomphe on Sunday week.<\/p>\n

But first she will bid to recreate the heroics of Kirsten Rausing-owned pair Albanova (2004) and Alpinista (2021) who both won the Preis von Europa for Prescott previously.<\/p>\n

\"AlpinistaAlpinista has won the Preis von Europa for Prescott in the past (Mike Egerton\/PA)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe race has been a good friend and we\u2019ve won it a couple of times and been second in it a couple of times and I would very much like to win it again,\u201d continued Prescott.<\/p>\n

\u201cTiffany needs to win a Group One, she\u2019s won her Group Threes and Group Twos now and while it was attractive to stay close to home and go for the Newmarket race, I think the right decision has been made.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s placed in a couple of them now and was second in the Preis von Bayern at Munich at the end of last year and would probably go there again this year if she was still in good form then.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sir Mark Prescott-trained five-year-old progressed through the ranks last season and ended the campaign competing at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-447942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115259372413115961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}