Monsoon (horse)
| monsoon | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | King's chair |
| Mother: | Mosella |
| Mother, father: | Surumu |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1990 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Colour: | brown |
| Stick measure: | 165 cm |
| Breeder: | Isarland Stud |
| Owner: | G. Baron von Ullmann |
| Trainer: | Heinz Jentzsch, Cologne |
| Record: | 23 starts: 12 wins - 5 second - 1 third places |
| GAG : | 83.5-100.5-100.5-99.5 |
| Prize amount: | 1,067,881 euros |
| Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
| Greatest victories | |
| European Prize 1993 and 1994 | |
| title | |
| Championat of father horses in Germany in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 | |
| Awards | |
| Horse of the year 1993 | |
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Infobox last modified on: June 29, 2010. |
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Monsun (March 4, 1990 - September 11, 2012) was an English thoroughbred horse . The stallion was bred by Königsstuhl from the Mosella at Gestüt Isarland near Starnberg and acquired by Georg Baron von Ullmann at the Baden yearling auction for DM 160,000. He was the most important German sire of the last decades.
Racing career
Monsun, a tough fighter, won three Group I races (" Aral Cup ", 2 × " European Prize "). In the » German Derby « he was second to his stable mate Lando , whom he met several times with varying degrees of success (one win out of three defeats). According to experts, Monsun belongs to possibly the best derby vintage in Germany. In addition to Lando, this includes Kornado, Sternkönig and Komtur. In both of his international competitions, he took second place in the “Prix du Conseil Municipale de Paris” (Group 2, Hippodrome de Longchamp ), previously in the important “Coronation Cup” (Group 1, Epsom, a race that his son Shirocco 2,006 won), he was probably already on inept abgetrockneten turf 4½ Lg. behind the winner in sixth (monsoon and many of his descendants showed their best performance racing mostly on regendurchweichtem turf).
With a statistic of 23 starts, he emerged as the winner 12 times and took place 6 times. His lifetime winnings were DM 2,088,594 (today in euros: 1,067,881).
Breeding career
Monsun proved to be an outstanding success at the stud:
- of all German father horses he has so far had the most winners in group races;
- with Manduro , Shirocco , Samum , Novellist and Schiaparelli, he has already fathered five sons who are at least as good as he was as a racehorse. Given the already high level of performance of Monsoon as a racehorse, this is unusual;
- he was four times champion of the German sire horse championship of sire horses and in the last few years he was also in the top places in France and Italy with only a few offspring.
His offspring are often late-ripe and only reach their performance peak at the age of five, but most of his best offspring are already successful in two-year races. His sons Shirocco (winner above all in the German Derby and in the Breeders' Cup Turf, Galopper of the Year ) and the distance-independent top European horse 2007 Manduro have brought the German thoroughbred breed , which has long been ridiculed abroad, into the international limelight.
With the mare Sacarina (from the French and Irish derby winner Old Vic) he produced the two derby winners Samum and Schiaparelli . This was the first and so far only time in the history of the German Derby that 2 "right-wing brothers" won this race. In addition, her right sister Salve Regina came second in the derby for Next Desert and won the German mare derby with the Diana Prize . Monsun is also the father of the top star Le Miracle .
Immediately afterwards, prizes in the millions were often achieved for monsoon offspring at important international thoroughbred auctions.
After Monsun went blind, he was no longer used as intensively for breeding as other international top stallions. Accordingly, his reaching stud fee in 2008 with 150,000 € a unprecedented peak in Germany, at the beginning of his breeding career, the stud fee was $ 10,000. His previous best sons Shirocco and Manduro were of Sheikh Maktoum Muhammad ibn Rashid Al purchased and on its stud in England and Ireland used as father horses. In autumn 2007, Sheikh Muhammad also acquired the multiple Group I winner Schiaparelli.
In 2009, Stacelita, a daughter by Monsun, won the Prix de Diane at the Chantilly racecourse (France). This was the first time that a Monsun daughter won the most important mare classic in the neighboring country and a classic race in France. Stacelita, who also won the prestigious Prix Vermeille a few months later , was raised in France, but has German parents (Monsun and Soignee) and comes from the Schwarzgold family , one of the largest mare families in German thoroughbred breeding.
In 2013 the stallion Novellist won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes a Group I race over 2,400 m. This makes Novellist the second German horse to have won this title at Ascot. He also set a new track record of 2: 24.60. In the same year the stallion was supposed to start at the Arc de Triomphe, but he fell ill shortly before. His racing career ended a few days later when he was sold to the Shadai Corp. Ltd. to Japan.
Last but not least, the internationally outstanding successes of Monsoon progeny brought Monsun into the so-called New Dosage System in October 2011 as a total of 218th “chef-de-race”. He is the fourth stallion bred in Germany and, after Oleander , Ticino and Gundomar, the first to be included in this classification in over 50 years.
On the evening of September 11, 2012, Monsoon had to be put to sleep because of an acute high-grade neurological disease.
literature
- P. Schmanns: From Herero to Boreal . Hanover 2005, pp. 256-266