Where is the richest mile race in Europe?

[brockguy]

Turkey only a G2 though!!

from the racingpost:
TURKEY is making a strong bid to join the elite of international racing and this year’s Topkapi Trophy, to be run at Veliefendi, Istanbul on September 9, will be the richest race over a mile in Europe.

First prize in the Group 2 contest has been increased fourfold to $600,000 while the total prize fund is$1,020,000. Ribella, who kept the race at home last year, earned £87,209. This year’s winner will pick up £306,122 at the official Jockey Club rate.

Umur Tamer, president of the Turkish Jockey Club (TJK), has also announced that the winner’s prize forthe Group 2 Bosphorus Cup over one and a half miles will rise from $150,000 to $400,000.

Turkish horses took the first four places in both races last year. Momtic, the only English challenger, was sixth in the Topkapi, one place behind the German-trained Ryono.

Robbie, a Dutch-owned four-year-old trained by Andreas Trybuhl in Germany, was the only foreign winner. He earned $100,000 in the Malazgirt Trophy for purebred Arabians. This year’s winner of that contest will earn five times as much.

John Dunlop was the first English trainer to exploit the rich opportunities on the Golden Horn. He won the Topkapi with Lucky Guest in 1991 and the following year’s Bosphorus Cup with Captain Horatius. There were five international races at that stage, but the number has been three for some years. Now the TJK has decided to open another five events, including two for Arabians, but with much more modest prize money than the big three.

The thoroughbred races are the Adnan Menderes Cup, over one mile at Veliefendi on 8 July, the Queen Elizabeth II Cup (commemorating a royal visit in 1961), for two-year-olds at Ankara over seven furlongs on 22 September, and the Istanbul Trophy over six furlongs at Veliefendi on 11 November.

All three are Group2 races with a winner’s prize of 101,000 lira (£36,462/€53,484).

The Arabian races have a similar value and are both scheduled for Veliefendi in June.

The Topkapi Trophy will be worth the equivalent of £522,855/€770,200 compared to last year’s richest mile prize in Europe, the Prix du Haras de Fresnay Le Buffard Jacques Le Marois at Deauville, which will again be worth €600,000 (£407,000).

[magic_idol]

Soon you will have the world circut ,where trainers will train horses not in different states but have satilite barns in different countries, The Japanese trainers are onto it & i bet it will be across the board in the near future, Super Stables