German runners at Longchamp

Longchamp stages a good card today, with two group races, and plenty of international runners, including several trained in Germany. Main feature is the Group Two Prix du Conseil Municipal over 2400 metres at 16.15, with two strong challengers from the UK, Scintillo (Richard Hannon/ Richard Hughes) and Traffic Guard (Paul Cole/ Ioritz Mendizibal) as well as one of the best horses in Central Europe, the Czech-trained Camill, who will be ridden by our friend Gary Hind. However Alain de Royer-Dupré appears to hold the best hand here, with the Aga Khan´s Shawardi (Christophe Lemaire) and The Bogberry (Christophe Soumillon), who we hope can recover our losses from the Arc. Main supporting feature is the Group Three Prix du Conde for 2yo´s over 1800 metres, with 3 British challengers - Circumvent (Cole/ Mendizibal), Layali al Andalus (Mark Johnston/ Joe Fanning) and Zeitoper (Saeed bin Suroor/ Ahmed Ajtebi), the latter being an own brother to Eastern Anthem out of classic winner Ka zzia. German-trained runners on the undercard are Tunis (Werner Baltromei/ Johan Victoire) in the 1800 metres race for unraced 2yo fillies at 14.05, Marek (Wolfgang Sonntag sen/ Stephane Pasquier) and Lone Star (Hans-Walter Hiller/ Olivier Peslier) in the tiercé handicap over a mile at 15.08, König Bernard (Baltromei/ Dominique Boeuf), Belango (Friedl Willenbrock/ Gaetan Masure) and Double Handful (Michael Figge/ Pasquier) in the listed race over 1800 metres at 16.55, Manaba (Baltromei/ Thierry Thulliez) - a half-brother to Manduro- in the second division of the mile handicap at 17.30 and Tresco (Figge/ Pasquier), who has top weight in the third division at 18.00. In our view, König Bernard has the best chance of these.

Betting forecast:
1. Race: Irish Heroes - Rewilding - Barboullo
2. Race: Brave Power - Casta Diva - Halfcause
3. Race: Saying - Histoire - Olvia
4. Race: Le Roi Mage - Marek - Outer Continent
5. Race: Circumvent - Planteur - Anzas
6. Race: Not Just Swing - Shahwardi - Makt
7. Race: Lungwa - König Bernard - Mistaken Identity
8. Race: Loup Normand - Knowledge - Lucky Millionaire
9. Race: Shaheen Hawk - Barefoot`s Park - New Best