By Tom Frary
Right now, there are few hotter properties in German racing than Mr Hollywood (Ire) (Iquitos {Ger}) and owners Wanja Soren Oberhof and Sebastian Weiss and trainer Henk Grewe will be hoping their unbeaten TDN Rising Star graces Cologne's G2 Union-Rennen with another command performance on Sunday.
Following his crazy 16-length winning debut at Mulheim in April, the bay made light work of Munich's G3 Bavarian Classic on heavy ground a month later and has a clear form edge on that evidence. While it is impossible to ever write off a Gestut Auenquelle homebred son of Sea The Moon (Ger), the fact is that the favourite's most credible rival Vintage Moon (Ger) was well-beaten by Fantastic Moon (Ger) (Sea The Moon {Ger}) in Baden-Baden's G3 Derby-Trial and the winner of that had been put in his place by Mr Hollywood in the Bavarian Classic.
Perhaps Stall Nizza's impressive eight-length Krefeld maiden winner Napolitano (Ire) (Australia {GB}), a Peter Schiergen-trained son of the dual G1 Preis von Europa heroine Nightflower (Ire) (Dylan Thomas {Ire}) from the family of the G2 Deutsches Derby hero Nutan (Ire) (Duke Of Marmalade {Ire}), will be the one to test him.
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