Acatenango (horse)
| Acatenango | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Surumu |
| Mother: | Aggravates |
| Mother, father: | Aggressor |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1982 |
| Year of death: | 2005 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Colour: | Fox |
| Stick measure: | 166 cm |
| Breeder: | Walther J. Jacobs |
| Owner: | Walther J. Jacobs |
| Trainer: | Heinz Jentzsch |
| Record: | 24 starts: 16 wins, 3 places |
| GAG : | 83.5-102.5-110.0-103.5 |
| Prize amount: | 1,744,541 DM |
| Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
| Greatest victories | |
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German Derby 1985 Grand Prix of Baden 1986 and 1987 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud 1986 |
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| title | |
| Championat of sire horses in Germany 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 | |
| Awards | |
| 1985 to 1987 horse of the year in Germany | |
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Infobox last modified on: March 15, 2011. |
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Acatenango (born April 13, 1982 , † April 2, 2005 ) was an English thoroughbred horse . The chestnut stallion was bred by Walther J. Jacobs at the Fährhof stud as a descendant of the stallion Surumu and the mare Aggravate.
Racing career
Race record:
- 2- to 5-year-olds: 24 starts - 16 wins - 0 second - 3 third places,
- Prize money: 1,744,541 DM,
- General counterbalance weight (GAG): 83.5 - 102.5 - 110.0 - 103.5 kg.
Acatenango was horse of the year in Germany from 1985 to 1987 .
With jockey Andrzej Tylicki in the saddle, he won the extremely strong German Derby in 1985 against his stable mates Pontiac and Lirung , who entered the race as the favorite and only came third because the standing distance of 2,400 m was too long for him.
Acatenango attracted international attention in 1986 when he won the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud . His starts in the two most important European races ("King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes", " Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe ") were unsuccessful. At the age of three and four, Acatenango was unbeaten in 12 consecutive races, a winning streak that only a few horses in Germany could beat. He was the most successful gallop in Germany at the time in terms of prize money and is still considered one of the best German racehorses of the post-war period - if not the best.
Breeding career
He also achieved great success as a sire. He won the German championship for sire horses five times and initially had two derby winners , Lando in 1993 and Borgia in 1997. As the third son of Acatenango, Nicaron surprisingly won the Derby in Hamburg-Horn in 2005 . Acatenango is one of the few stallions in the German thoroughbred breed who also won derby abroad (2004 Blue Canari in France). Acatenango has 599 live-born offspring from 16 breeding years registered with the Directorate for Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing. With his son Lando, who is also successful in breeding, he provides a sire that extends the line.
Another derby winner can also be found in the grandchildren: Animal Kingdom , an Acatenango grandson through his mother, won the Kentucky Derby in 2011 and the Dubai World Cup in 2013 .
In 2004 the stallion ended his breeding career and enjoyed his retirement at his home stud Fährhof (municipality of Sottrum ) before he had to be euthanized on April 2, 2005 after a fall.
Web links
- Pedigree
- and other ancestry data
- Racing performance
- progeny
- Championat of sire horses in Germany
- An online biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ancestry Animal Kingdom ( Memento from December 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )