Lomitas
| Lomitas | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Niniski |
| Mother: | La Colorada |
| Mother, father: | Surumu |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1988 |
| Year of death: | 2010 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Colour: | Fox |
| Stick measure: | 162 cm |
| Breeder: | Walther J. Jacobs |
| Owner: | Fährhof stud |
| Trainer: | Andreas Wöhler |
| Record: | 19 starts: 10 wins, 4 places |
| GAG : | 105.5 |
| Prize amount: | 1,445,000 DM |
| Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
| Greatest victories | |
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Grand Prix of Baden 1991 Prize of Europe 1991 |
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Galopper of the year 1991 Champion of sire horses in France 2011 |
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Infobox last modified on: March 15, 2011. |
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Lomitas (born January 31, 1988 - August 30, 2010 ) was an English thoroughbred horse . The chestnut stallion was bred by Niniski out of La Colorada at the Northmore stud farm near Newmarket .
ancestry
Lomitas' dam La Colorada came from the most important Fährhofer mare line, the Love In family . In addition to Lomitas, the Derby winners Lagunas and Lavirco and the Meiler Lirung also come from this line . Walther J. Jacobs had already tried successfully with Lagunas to cross the line of the trademark stallion Northern Dancer into the Love In family through his best son, the English Triple Crown winner Nijinsky II . Instead of Ile de Bourbon , however, this time his other son Niniski, an extreme stalker, was chosen as the stallion and instead of a man of letters his son Surumu was the mare's father.
Racing career
As a three-year-old, Lomitas successfully participated in the Busch Memorial . At the Mehl-Mülhens race he made difficulties again and was sent off the start. In order to avoid a similar nuisance at the German Derby , Walther J. Jacobs engaged the horse whisperer Monty Roberts , who successfully fixed the problems with the starting machine . Lomitas was then the clear favorite for the 1991 Derby. After a clear victory at the Berlin Grand Prix in 1991, he beat the competition at the Baden Grand Prix and the European Prize by seven and eight lengths respectively. These services earned him a general compensation of 105.5 kg, a mark that was only surpassed by the Monsun son Manduro . Lomitas took 3rd place on the European ranking of the best three-year-olds. Later he was also voted Galopper of the Year 1991 by the Sportschau spectators .
Even as a four-year-old, Lomitas initially seamlessly continued these successes with a win at the Gerling Prize , only to then clearly lose to another horse, Hondo Mondo , at the Grand Prix of Economics in Baden-Baden for the first time . At the Hansa Prize in Hamburg-Horn , he rehabilitated himself again with a four-length victory. But then he came in at the Germany Prize in Düsseldorf in an initially inexplicable penultimate place. This was preceded by an attempt at extortion in which the owner of Lomitas, Walther J. Jacobs, was threatened with poisoning the horse. The day after the defeat, a letter was received from the blackmailer that an example had been made in Lomitas. Blood tests confirmed this claim. Lomitas then disappeared without a trace and was brought via England to a secret location in the USA, where he recovered from the severe poisoning. However, it should never come close to its old class. After a few weaker races in the USA, he finally ended his racing career and moved into the stallion box at his home stud.
Breeding career
From his first year, born in 1996, five of his sons qualified for the 1999 Derby, which his son Belenus won in a record time that is still valid today. The Mehl-Mülhens winner and four-time Group I runner-up Sumitas and his best son Silvano , who won a Group I race in Hong Kong, Singapore and the USA , also belonged to the same vintage . Many other good offspring led to Sheikh Muhammad Al Maktum buying a share in him and setting him up for a few years in his Darley stud in Newmarket (Suffolk) . In July 2006 he returned to his home stud in Sottrum . Ten of his offspring from the 2008 vintage placed in black type or auction races . The gelding Sanagas , who was bred by Gestüt Fährhof in 2006 , had a Group I victory in the USA.
His most successful offspring was the "miracle mare" Danedream , who won over 3.76 million euros during her racing career. In 2011 she was the second German horse to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , arguably the most important race in the world, in record time against numerous international class horses, and a year later she was the first German horse to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes . In 2011 he also became champion of sire horses in France.
Lomitas no longer lived to see these successes. He had to be put to sleep on August 30, 2010 after an emergency colic operation.
Despite being a novelist and a protectionist , his trainer Andreas Wöhler described Lomitas as the best horse of his career.
Web links
- Lomitas - His story (award-winning documentation on Youtube)
- biography
- Life story on Turf-Times.de
- Lomitas on Pedigreequery
- Pedigree and further ancestry data Lomitas on sporthorse-data.com
- Race performance on Siegerlisten.de
- Racing performance on Galopp-Sieger.de
- progeny
- The Love In family
Individual evidence
- ↑ “ There is no question that Lomitas had something very special” Galloponline, March 24, 2016