Lancade and Adrie de Vries foil Johnston hat-trick bid in German 1,000 Guineas

Rose Of Kildare suffered a somewhat luckless passage to finish third in her bid to give Mark Johnson a third straight German 1,000 Guineas at Dusseldorf on Sunday, with Lancade producing the better turn of foot in the closing stages.

Lancade is a first Classic winner for trainer Yasmin Almenrader and had previously scored over 1m1f in a minor conditions race at the same venue and showed the benefit of that ability to stay further when coming wide and late under Adrie de Vries, who previously won the race back in 2010.

Rose Of Kildare was last seen when ninth in the Qipco 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket and broke smartly under Ioritz Mendizabal before being shuffled backwards on the run to the first turn.

The daughter of Make Believe took time to really hit her stride on the fast ground in the straight and Mendizabal was forced to pull out around No Limit Credit before launching his challenge, failing by a nose to catch her for second, with Lancade a length and a quarter in front of that pair.

Johnston landed the Group 2 prize in 2018 with Nyaleti and again 12 months later with Main Edition, while Lancade is the first home-trained winner since 2015.

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