Le Miracle
| Le Miracle | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | monsoon |
| Mother: | L'Heure bleue |
| Mother, father: | Kendor |
| Gender: | gelding |
| Year of birth: | 2001 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Colour: | brown |
| Breeder: | Brigitte Countess of Norman |
| Owner: | Hachtsee Stud |
| Trainer: | Werner Baltromei |
| Record: | 33 starts: 7 wins, 16 places |
| GAG : | ? - 67 -? 96.5-96.5-93.5 |
| Prize amount: | € 410,970 |
| Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
| Greatest victories | |
| Prix du Cadran 2007 | |
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Infobox last modified on: March 15, 2009. |
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Le Miracle (* 2001 ) is an English thoroughbred horse that was bred by Brigitte Countess von Norman at Gestüt Hachtsee von Monsun and L'Heure Bleue.
ancestry
Le Miracle comes from the German top sire Monsun out of L'Heure bleue. The mother comes from an Irish-English line and was imported to Germany in the late 1990s. In addition to Le Miracle, she is also the mother of the Law Society son Loup de Mer, who had won € 153,450 by March 2009.
Racing career
Le Miracle's racing career is somewhat reminiscent of the career from dishwasher to millionaire. His first starts on the racetrack were rather less successful. At the beginning of his career he was trained by Erich Pils in Munich and competed in races that can be described as the basic sport of racing. As a two- and three-year-old he played a total of 8 races and was without a win at the end of the season. With an annual winnings of EUR 4,250, he hadn't even earned his oats. In spring 2005 he moved to Werner Baltromei's stable in Mülheim an der Ruhr , where his successful career began. From then on, this allowed him to compete at significantly longer distances (from 2800 meters), after he had always started in races that were decided at 1600 to 2200 meters. In May of this year he won the first race of his career in France on the famous Chantilly racecourse at the castle of the French kings. He then made another start in Compiegne and ended the season early in May.
In 2006 he made nine starts and was victorious five times. He won a group race for the first time with the Prix Gladiateur, an important and traditional tax test at the Longchamp racetrack, and then took third place in the Prix Cadran at the highest group level.
His biggest season was 2007. He was placed in numerous international stand-up races and apart from the Prix Maurice de Neuil he was in the money in every one of his starts. Outstanding was his third place in the world famous Ascot Gold Cup during the royal meeting of Ascot, the unofficial world championship of the stayers. For the first time in the history of the race, which has been held since 1804, a German horse was able to achieve a place there. He showed his best season and therefore his best lifetime achievement again in the Prix du Cadran during the meeting around the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at the French racecourse Longchamp . In an exciting final battle, he defeated, among other things, the huge favorite Yeats, who was placed in Ascot before him.
After this victory, Le Miracle was one of the best older horses in Germany and one of the best standing horses in Europe for the so-called cup races (races over a distance of more than 3,000 m). As a specialist in long-distance races, Le Miracle had only a few opportunities to start in Germany and therefore mostly competed in France. In 2009, Le Miracle ended his racing career.
Le Miracle is a gelding , which rules out a breeding career after a racing career.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le Miracle at turf-times.de
- ↑ Loup de Mer at racing-post.com (English)