Luciano (horse)
| Luciano | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Henry the Seventh [GB] |
| Mother: | Light Arctic |
| Mother, father: | Arctic Prince [GB] |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1964 |
| Year of death: | 1981 |
| Country: | England |
| Colour: | dark brown |
| Breeder: | Buttermilk Stud, England |
| Owner: | Albert Marcour |
| Trainer: | Sven von Mitzlaff |
| Record: | 14 starts: 10 wins, 3 second places |
| GAG : | 106-107 kg |
| Prize amount: | 595,800 DM |
| Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
| Greatest victories | |
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German Derby 1967 Grand Prix of Baden 1968 |
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| title | |
| Galopper of the year 1967 and 1968 | |
| Awards | |
| official logo of German horse racing | |
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Infobox last modified on: December 28, 2007. |
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Luciano (born May 7, 1964 - June 26, 1981 ) was an English thoroughbred horse . After almost 40 years, he replaced oleander as the most profitable German race horse of all time. A stylized image of Luciano and his rider Oskar Langner has in principle formed the official logo of German horse racing up to the present day.
ancestry
Luciano's father Henry the Seventh won a total of 7 races and £ 25,712 in prizes, including the major "Eclipse Stakes" and the famous "Cambridgeshire Handicap" in the dead race. Henry the Seventh was more of a middle distance than a stalker. Luciano comes from his first crop and should remain his best offspring.
Luciano's dam, Light Arctic , was the daughter of an English derby winner and was taken into breeding without being tested.
In Luciano's year, the Buttermilk Stud in Oxfordshire , England, also bred the top European racing mare Park Top with only 4 foals .
The Belgian A. Marcour bought Luciano as a foal on December 1st, 1964 in Newmarket for 1,550 gns (then approx. 18,000 DM). Just a few minutes earlier, he had already bought Presto, the later Henckel race winner, for 1,200 gns. Luciano spent the time up to the start of training at Stud Alpen on the Lower Rhine.
Racing career
As a yearling, Luciano injured himself in the ankle of his right hind leg so badly that killing himself was even considered for a moment. Ultimately, this only delayed the start of training, so that Luciano could not run any races when he was two years old. He made a late, but equally successful life debut on April 22, 1967 in Dortmund when he won a winless race over 1,400 m as a 19:10 totofavorite with a while (ie more than 10 lengths ahead).
Luciano won the “ German Derby ” under Lester Piggott against his stable mates Norfolk and Presto - the 1967 derby is one of the few races in which a coach supervised all three of the top three and it was the last German derby that did not come from the starting boxes but with Tapes has started. Luciano suffered his first defeat on German soil after winning the » ARAL-Pokal « in the » Grand Prix of Baden « in 1967 with ¾ Lg. Against the Salvo trained in England . The again superior victory in the »German St. Leger« was followed by a defeat in the » European Prize « against the Russian wonder horse Aniline .
In 1968, as a four-year-old, Luciano was defeated only twice in 6 starts, again in the »Prize of Europe« in his last race and before that in eleventh place in the » Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe «, which is still one of the best of all times applies (winner: Vaguely Noble in front of Sir Ivor , also aniline in the defeated field, but in front of Luciano). The start of this Paris race was the only one in which Luciano ended up out of place and did not win any prize money.
According to today's classification, Luciano would have 5 Group I races (Derby, 2 × "ARAL Cup", "Grand Prix of North Rhine-Westphalia", "Grand Prix of Baden") and 3 Group II races ("Union races «,» St. Leger «,» Hansa Prize «). Luciano was never beaten by a horse trained in Germany.
Breeding career
At the end of his racing career, Luciano was syndicated for 800,000 DM and set up at the Harzburg stud . In his year there were two other stallions who showed their best performances at other distances, but were on the same level as Luciano as father horses: Priamos (a Meiler / middle distance runner) and Pentathlon (a sprinter).
Luciano sired many high-class horses and was among the leading stallions in Germany throughout his life, but none of his offspring reached his own class. His best offspring were probably the mares Kandia and Las Vegas , who also won the »ARAL Cup« (Group I). Las Vegas also won over even the price of Diana and the St. Leger and was 1984 Galopper of the year selected. In general, his daughters were more successful than his sons on the racetrack as well as in breeding. His current influence in German thoroughbred breeding can be seen primarily as the father of dam mares. In 1983 he was Champion of the sire horses of dam mares. Decisive role in his daughter Ordinal , with Ordos and the famous Orofino produced two Derby winners. So far, only five mares have managed this in the history of thoroughbred German. Luciano also left lasting traces in Japanese thoroughbred breeding through his daughter Santa Luciana , who came from the Schwarzgold line . Her grandson, the Sunday Silence son Manhattan Cafe (1998–2015), won four important Group I races and was a very successful stallion. Her granddaughter Biwa Heidi is the mother of four Group I horses, including the multiple Group I winner and Japan Cup winner Buena Vista .
With increasing age, Luciano's temperament became more and more irrepressible - which can be observed more often in stallions. This temperament eventually led to Luciano's death when he broke a coffin bone while being wedged in the box.
literature
- M. Beckmann: Luciano, in "Vollblut - Zucht und Rennen", No. 31, 1967, pp. 285-291
- H. Siemen: Luciano, in "Die Vollblutzucht der Welt", L.-B.-Ahnert-Verlag, 1970, p. 313
- P. Schmanns: From Herero to Boreal, Hannover 2006, pp. 37–44