Indifferente had won the trial for this race at the end of April, but whilst she may not have been ideally placed on Sunday and she did concede the first run to the winner, I think that she had plenty of opportunity to run her race and appears to have run to a similar level of form. If we take that as a working hypothesis, then this has to be considered to be a career best performance from Timeforshowcasing. Having taken just 5s to reach 50 km/h when the stalls opened, the winner was one of the first into stride and as a result, she was able to get across from stall 7 to get into a prominent position. Although headed at the end of the first furlong, she was happy to sit behind the early leader (Wintersome) as they went into the first bend. There was a brief moment at the 400m pole where it appeared that Wintersome may have slipped the field, but she quickly began to tire and that allowed Jack Mitchell to get Timeforshowcasing on terms. With the runner-up on her hind quarters all the way to the line, Timeforshowcasing was able to maintain her momentum and kept Indifferente at bay with a race best late speed figure of 59.9 km/h. This was a first victory in the race for Charlie Johnston, whose father Mark won it twice with Nyaleti (2018) and Main Edition (2019), both ridden by Joe Fanning. British horses have a very good record in the German 1,000 Guineas in recent years and have now won 6 of the last 11 runnings of the race. 

Timeforshowcasing does hold an entry in the Coronation Stakes and her trainer told TDN after the race “She does have an entry in the [G1] Coronation [Stakes] at Royal Ascot and, now that she’s won a Group 2, I think she’ll have to roll the dice in a Group 1. Whether that will be at Ascot, or not, I’m not sure. She likes a little bit of ease in the ground, like she got today, and today was what mattered. We’ll worry about the next run afterwards”. The “Soft” going description on Sunday put pay to any chances of a very fast time, but her late speed figure of 59.9 km/h was still above the expected average for a winner of this race from our database, so it’s not impossible to think that Timeforshowcasing may be able to perform in G1 company at some point this season. She had higher top speed figures than both Indifferente and the 3rd placed Sky Watch, who was outpaced before running on with a run-out speed of 55.3 km/h. The track at Dusseldorf clearly suited her style of racing and her average stride length figure of 7.05m was within 1% of the TPD average figure for a winner over this course and distance. The average stride length figures are very similar for this race and the Coronation Stakes at Ascot, but Timeforshowcasing is likely to encounter much stronger opposition there than she did in Dusseldorf, so even with a relatively impressive set of data on Sunday, she is likely to need to improve again to be competitive there, even if the ground came up in her favour.