Neckar (horse)
| Neckar | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Ticino |
| Mother: | mermaid |
| Mother, father: | Arjaman |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1948 |
| Year of death: | 1974 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Colour: | black-brown |
| Breeder: | Erlenhof stud |
| Owner: | Erlenhof / Ravensberg |
| Trainer: | Adrian von Borcke |
| Record: | 9 starts: 6 wins - 1 second - 1 third places |
| GAG : | (?) - 105 kg |
| Prize amount: | 145,490 DM |
| Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
| Greatest victories | |
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German Derby Prix de Chantilly |
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| Championat of father horses in Germany in 1959, 1960 and 1962–1965 | |
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Infobox last modified on: December 8th, 2007. |
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Neckar (born May 20, 1948, † April 5, 1974) was an English thoroughbred horse that won the German Derby in 1951 and later became an internationally influential father horse.
ancestry
Neckar comes from the famous Erlenhofer-N-line, one of the most influential mare families of the German thoroughbred breed (family no. 4r). His sire Ticino is also an exceptional horse in the German thoroughbred breed.
Racing career
As a two-year-old Neckar was overshadowed by other classmates, especially the unbeaten mare Wacholdis , who beat him in the Ratibor race. After all, Neckar won a winless race in 4 starts, only remained unplaced in his life debut and ended up third in the most important race of the year (price of the winter favorite).
As a three-year-old, however, he could not be beaten in any of his five races, including the first two classic races (Henckel Races , German Derby). Neckar achieved victory in the Henckel race somewhat “bloodlessly” and not without controversy, as one participant had obstructed Neckar's strongest competitors in the home straight and he only won this race safely by one length. Neckar's derby win was supposed to be the last victory in this race for his rider Otto Schmidt, he was 55 years old at the time.
Instead after the Derby with a victory in the St. Leger , the first German -Crown Triple become winners, they moved for Neckar start in the Prix de Chantilly over 3000m in preparation for a planned start in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe before . The Prix de Chantilly is now called Prix Niel and is still an important preliminary test for the "Arc" over a shorter distance. At that time, the race was endowed with the equivalent of 70,670 DM for the winner - significantly higher than the derby victory with 40,000 DM. Neckar's Parisian victory form - the first victory of a horse trained in Germany in a major French race after the Second World War , allegedly even the very first victory of one German horse in Longchamp - should have been enough to win the St. Leger too. In Neckar's absence, the St. Leger was won by Schlenderhan Jonkheer , whom he easily beat in the Union race and in the derby. By the way, Wacholdis came second in Neckars Derby , who otherwise shone in short-distance races and is still one of the best German racing mares after 1945.
Neckar no longer competed for the St. Leger because he injured himself in training after the Paris race. Neckar's legs should have worried his supervisors 5 days before the derby. Although he was kept in the racing stable until July 1953, neither rubbing nor burning could cure his weak tendons.
Breeding career
After the unusually short and unfortunate end of a racing career for a top German gallop, Neckar was acquired for breeding by the owners of the Ravensberg stud. If after his racing career there were still doubts about his class - his close relative, the Dutchman , who was one year older and who had won the Grand Prix of Baden in the absence of Neckar , was considered by some critics to be the better racehorse - he finally cleared them up in breeding out. Together with Orsini , he became the most important successor to his father Ticino .
At the end of the 1969 season, his direct descendants had won 832 races; in West Germany alone, their total winnings were over DM 5 million - a significant sum at the time.
He sired 9 winners of 10 classic races in Germany, including 3 winners of the German Derby ( Poacher , Zank and Waidwerk , Zank also winner of the Austrian Derby) and the Derby second key witness , who even won the championship as a father horse . In Italy his daughter Tadolina won the mare derby with 10 lengths and his son Hogarth the derby. 17 of his sons worked as father horses in thoroughbred and warmblood breeding.
Neckar won the championship for sire horses five times and the championship for sire of dams more than once. As a mother mare sire he has had the greater influence from today's perspective, he sired not only many class mares but also the mother of the first (and until the success of the mare Danedream 2011 only) German winner in the world's most important horse race (Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe), Star appeal . But Neckar is also represented in Danedream's pedigree.
literature
- H. Rudolfi: From Evening Peace to Baalim, Cologne 1963.
- The thoroughbred breeding of the world, LB Ahnert-Verlag, 1970.
- M. Beckmann: Erlenhof and the Catnip family, in "Vollblut - Zucht und Rennen", No. 1, 1958, pp. 12-24.
- M. Beckmann: Neckar - a size of the German thoroughbred breeding, in "Vollblut - Zucht und races", No. 59, 1974, pp. 303-321.
- H. Siemen: Fascination Gallop - 125 Years of the German Derby Hamburg, Hamburg 1994.