Germanys Andre Greipel won the opening stage of the 13th edition of the Tour of Britain as Mark Cavendish fell in a crash on the final corner. Tony Gonzalez Jersey .The 161.5-kilometre stage from the south of Glasgow to Castle Douglas saw a tactical sprint finish won by Lotto-Soudals Greipel, who powered to his fifth Tour of Britain victory in a time of three hours 52 minutes and 40 seconds ahead of Orica-BikeExchanges Caleb Ewan and Team Giant-Alpecins Ramon Sinkeldam.Greipel told ITV4: Its really nice to start off this Tour of Britain with a victory and now we reached our goal for the first day and everything else is on top.Ive done six weeks of training after the Tour de France and this race is really important towards the next goal [Octobers Road World Championships]. The Tour of Britain is quite a tough race, but its the right moment in the race calendar.We reached this yellow jersey on our shoulders together. James [Shaw] did a really good job of chasing the breakaway and all of the rest tried to get me in front on the final corner and we did it perfectly with even six guys, which is not easy in a race like that but we managed to do so and Im really proud of the guys.Team Dimension Datas Cavendish was involved in a crash which also included Team Skys Olympic omnium champion Elia Viviani in the last kilometre on a tight corner as teams tried to assemble their riders into a position to challenge.ONE Pro Cyclings Peter Williams, who won both the white and green jerseys last year, was among the early pace-setters along with An Post-Chain Reaction pair Emiel Wastyn and Jasper Bovenhuis, Jonathan McEvoy (NFTO) and Tom Moses (JLT Condor) as they attacked the three categorised climbs in Scotland.Meanwhile, Dimension Data, LottoNL-Jumbo, Orica-BikeExchange and then Team Sky were all lined up on the front of the peloton with 21km to go as they closed the gap to 45 seconds.The breakaway riders were eventually caught in the final 10km with Lotto Soudal and Trek-Segafredo leading from the front before Team Dimension Data finally made their move to bring Cavendish into prime position for a strong finish.Team Sky, led by Viviani, and Orica-BikeExchange began to strike as teams jostled for position in the final kilometre but as Cavendish and Viviani became casualties on the final corner, Greipel was perfectly placed to streak through and claim the yellow jersey.Britains Chris Latham (Team Wiggins) and Dan McLay finished ninth and 10th respectively while Sir Bradley Wiggins was a distant 111th. 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Despite Rising Romance and Pilote DEssai being well established, Lindsay Park still hopes to learn more about their two Ballarat Cup runners.The pair represent David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig in the $300,000 Listed race on Saturday.After a good start to her spring when second to Black Heart Bart in the Memsie Stakes, Rising Romance has gradually lost form.She finished last in the Myer Classic on the opening day of the Melbourne Cup carnival before running eighth in the Matriarch Stakes over 2000m a week later.Dabernig is hoping she can turn it around on Saturday.She found the ground probably too firm on both occasions at Flemington, Dabernig said.Hopefully that Ballarat track wont race too firm. Shes better on softer ground for sure but its hard at this time of year.The Ballarat Cup gives Rising Romance the chance to break through for her first win since joining Lindsay Park in the spring of 2015 and her first since taking out a 1500m race in New Zealand earlier that year.Dabernig described Pilote Dessai as frustrating after recording three seconds from five spring outings.Pilote Dessai created a big impression with his Australian debut win at Bendigo last autumn but has become tricky to catch this campaign. Larry Johnson Jersey. .Hes drawn wide but hes racing like he wants to be stretched out to this trip, Dabernig said.Hes in with a light weight and he runs very good sectionals all the time and always gets home hard.If he can do that at the end of 2200 metres, hell be a chance for sure.Two-year-old American Genius runs in the Magic Millions Clockwise Classic on Saturday with a view to a tilt at the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic on the Gold Coast in January.American Genius competed in a jump-out the clockwise direction at Ballarat last week.The colt ran a debut third behind stablemate Madeenaty at Flemington last month and was immediately set for Saturdays race in which he wears blinkers for the first time.Hes had plenty of time following that Flemington run and has done a lot of work on his Sydney leg, Dabernig said.You never know how hell handle the race pressure, but Im pretty confident.If he won we could go straight to Queensland but if he was needing to get more money we would most likely give him a run in Sydney on the way. 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