A mouse, a bird, a rustle. Any disturbance, no matter how small, can upset the proud galloper Torquator Tasso during the warm-up in everyday training. In Marcel Weiß’s racing stable in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany’s best racehorse can be quite sensitive. Unrest on the layout, a changed daily program, leaving the box for a photo? The two-time galloper of the year doesn’t like all that at all. “He’s special,” says Weiß, 46, with a certain reverence in his voice. His pit neighbor Gondano, whom they put at the side of Torquator Tasso four years ago when he was settling into what was then a foreign racing stable, they kept as a lead horse for him. He remains the best friend, training partner and haven of peace for the sensitive miracle horse.
