The Grosser Preis von Düsseldorf is a Group 3

Conditions races

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 flat

Flat racing

Flat racing is a form of Thoroughbred horse racing which is run over a level track at a predetermined distance. It differs from steeplechase racing which is run over hurdles...

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Horse racing

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 in Germany

Germany

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 which is open to thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

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s aged three years or older. It is run at Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

 over a distance of 1,700 metres (1 mile and 99 yards), and it is scheduled to take place each year in October.

The event was formerly contested over 2,400 metres, and it used to be restricted to horses aged four or older. For a period it was scheduled to be run in the first half of the season. The European race-grading system started to include German events in 1972, and the Grosser Preis von Düsseldorf was given Group 2 status.

The race was cut to 2,200 metres in 1979, and its present distance was introduced in 1983. It was opened to three-year-olds in 1985, and at the same time it was rescheduled to take place in the autumn. It was downgraded to Group 3 level in 1998. The event has been known as the Grosser Preis der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf since 2002.

Winners since 1985

Year	Winner	Age	Jockey	Trainer	Time
1985	Young Runaway	3	Greville Starkey Greville Starkey Greville Starkey was an English jockey who rode almost 2,000 winners during a 33-year career on the flat.Starkey scaled the heights of his profession during his 33-year career in which he rode 1,989 winners on the Flat...	Guy Harwood Guy Harwood Guy Harwood is a retired British racehorse trainer. Harwood was born in Pulborough, West Sussex, in 1939. Harwood began riding at the age of 18 and won 40 point-to-point races and 14 National Hunt races over the next few years...	1:46.60
1986	Eve's Error	3	Walter Swinburn Walter Swinburn Walter R. Swinburn is a retired flat racing jockey who competed in Great Britain and Ireland as well as internationally.Swinburn was born in Oxford...	Michael Stoute Michael Stoute Sir Michael Ronald Stoute is a Barbadian British thoroughbred horse trainer in flat racing. Stoute, whose father was the Chief of police for Barbados, left the island in 1964 at the age of 19 to become an assistant to trainer Pat Rohan and began training horses on his own in 1972...	1:43.50
1987	Zampano	3	Andrzej Tylicki	Heinz Jentzsch	1:43.40
1988	Seratino	5	Olaf Schick	Uwe Ostmann	1:50.00
1989	Royal Touch	4	Willie Ryan Willie Ryan Willie Ryan is a flat racing jockey from Ireland who has been based in the United Kingdom for most of his career.Ryan was apprenticed to the trainer Reg Hollinshead and won his first race at Windsor Racecourse in 1982. He was joint British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1985...	John Hammond John E. Hammond John E. Hammond is a Thoroughbred horse trainer in France.Based in Chantilly, Oise, Hammond has trained numerous Group One winners including Montjeu and Suave Dancer both of whom won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, France's most prestigious horse race...	1:49.45
1990	Zille	5	Peter Schiergen Peter Schiergen Peter Schiergen is a former German champion jockey and a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.- Horse trainer :Schiergen trained Boreal, winner of the 2001 Coronation Cup....	Jutta Schultheis	1:51.10
1991	Redden Burn	3	Willie Ryan Willie Ryan Willie Ryan is a flat racing jockey from Ireland who has been based in the United Kingdom for most of his career.Ryan was apprenticed to the trainer Reg Hollinshead and won his first race at Windsor Racecourse in 1982. He was joint British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 1985...	Henry Cecil Henry Cecil Sir Henry Richard Amherst Cecil is a successful English horse racing trainer who has had many winners in the Epsom Derby, 1,000 Guineas and 2,000 Guineas, Epsom Oaks and the St. Leger Stakes....	1:48.29
1992	Lucky Lindy	3	Brian Rouse	Richard Hannon Richard Hannon Richard Hannon is a British horse trainer based in East Everleigh Stables, Marlborough, Wiltshire.Hannon's family has a tradition of horse training—his father was also a horse trainer, his son Richard is currently the assistant trainer, and his son-in-law Richard Hughes is the stable jockey. ...	1:45.13
1993	Port Lucaya	3	Frankie Dettori Frankie Dettori Lanfranco "Frankie" Dettori, MBE is an Italian horse racing jockey and celebrity. Dettori has been Champion Jockey on three occasions and has ridden the winners of more than 500 Group races.. He has had many successes in his role of stable jockey to Godolphin Racing...	Richard Hannon Richard Hannon Richard Hannon is a British horse trainer based in East Everleigh Stables, Marlborough, Wiltshire.Hannon's family has a tradition of horse training—his father was also a horse trainer, his son Richard is currently the assistant trainer, and his son-in-law Richard Hughes is the stable jockey. ...	1:49.60
1994	Risen Raven	3	Peter Schiergen Peter Schiergen Peter Schiergen is a former German champion jockey and a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.- Horse trainer :Schiergen trained Boreal, winner of the 2001 Coronation Cup....	Heinz Jentzsch	1:46.12
1995	Tres Heureux	5	L. Hammer-Hansen	Erika Mäder	1:49.45
1996	Village Storm	6	Terence Hellier	Søren Jensen	1:47.80
1997	Crimson Tide	3	Michael Hills	John Hills	1:47.35
1998	Tres Heureux	8	Georg Bocskai	Erika Mäder	1:51.19
1999	Page's King	4	Alessandro Schikora	Waldemar Himmel	1:47.00
2000	Peppercorn	3	Pascal van de Keere	Uwe Ostmann	1:47.98
2001	Peppercorn	4	Torsten Mundry	Uwe Ostmann	1:51.28
2002	Love Regardless	3	Keith Dalgleish	Mark Johnston	1:46.45
2003	Medici	3	Jean-Pierre Carvalho	Mario Hofer	1:48.70
2004	Peppercorn	7	Peter Heugl	Uwe Ostmann	1:45.21
2005	Common World	6	Robert Burke	Tom Hogan	1:45.05
2006	Wiesenpfad	3	Andreas Suborics Andreas Suborics Andreas Suborics Andreas Suborics Andreas Suborics (born August 11, 1971 in Vienna, Austria is an Austrian Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who is based in Germany and races worldwide.A three-time champion jockey in Germany, Suborics is best known as the jockey who rode Shirocco in 2004....	Waldemar Hickst	1:47.41
2007	Mharadono	4	Wladimir Panov	Peter Hirschberger	1:46.45
2008	Apollo Star	6	Stéphane Pasquier Stéphane Pasquier Stéphane Pasquier in Paris, France, is a flat racing jockey. In October 2006, he won the 85th Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe....	Lenka Horakova	1:43.22
2009	Schutzenjunker	4	Daniele Porcu	Uwe Ostmann	1:46.80