Oleander (horse)
| oleander | |
| Race: | English blood |
| Father: | Prunus |
| Mother: | Orchid II |
| Mother, father: | Galtee More |
| Gender: | stallion |
| Year of birth: | 1924 |
| Year of death: | 1947 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Colour: | Fox |
| Breeder: | Schlenderhan Stud |
| Owner: | Schlenderhan Stud |
| Trainer: | George Arnull |
| Record: | 23 starts: 19 wins, 3 places |
| Prize amount: | 580,950 RM |
| Greatest wins, titles and awards | |
| Greatest victories | |
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Grand Prix of Baden 1927, 1928 and 1929 Grand Prix of Berlin 1928 and 1929 |
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| Championat of sire horses in Germany 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 | |
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Infobox last modified on: January 31, 2016. |
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Oleander (* 1924 ; † 1947 ) was a racehorse of the English Thoroughbred breed . The fox stallion was drawn to the stud Schlenderhan. Oleander was considered to be the first international class horse racing horse from German breeding and, despite Ticino , Nereide and Schwarzgold, was the most successful German horse racing horse in the first half of the 20th century. Luciano only surpassed his lifetime winnings in Germany in 1968 . The stallion died at the Altefeld stud in 1947 .
ancestry
Oleander was raised in 1924 at the Schlenderhan Stud by Prunus from Orchid II by Galtee More . Orchidee II was born in Germany. Galtee More was Irish-bred and was at Graditz Stud from 1904 .
Racing career
Race record:
- 2- to 5-year-olds: 23 starts - 19 wins, 2 × second place, 1 × third place;
- Prize money 580,950 RM
As a two-year-old, he won the renowned Sierstorpff walk, but then suffered a broken pelvis during training. Abandoned by the vets, but not by his trainer George Arnull, Oleander recovered thanks to self-sacrificing care and attention and was able to be trained again in the coming year. The entries for the classic races were withdrawn, but despite a long break, Oleander was the best three-year-old of 1927.
With three victories in the Grand Prix of Baden (1927–1929) he stands next to the miracle mare Kincsem , who won the race from 1877–1879. They are the only two horses that have entered the list of winners of this important European race three times, which is why streets in Iffezheim - the location of the racetrack - were named after both of them. Two victories in the Grand Prix of Berlin and the long-distance gladiator race proved his outstanding class.
The Schlenderhan Stud and trainer George Arnull dared to compete internationally with Oleander in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , the most important race in the world in the 20th century. After a 5th place in 1928 (the only race in which the oleander did not win a cash prize), he confirmed his high assessment with a very narrow head and neck defeat in 1929 against the exceptional horses Ortello and Kantar. Many experts at the time believed that oleander appeared at the top too early and otherwise would have won the race.
Oleander was the most successful German horse racehorse for almost 40 years, until it was replaced by Luciano in 1968. This record must also be seen against the background that in the thirties (after Oleander's racing career) horse racing flourished with rising cash prices. If you were to calculate Oleander's victories with today's cash prizes (most of the races have a corresponding tradition), then he would probably be among the top 10 most profitable horses in Germany.
Importance in breeding
Oleander won the championship for sire horses in Germany nine times .
The first descendant of Oleander to enter a racecourse in 1933 was Schwarzliesel (mother of Schwarzgold ), who immediately won in an outstanding manner. With Waffenschmied, Oleander was also the winter favorite of 1933. But it was not until Sturmvogel, right brother of the Schwarzliesel, won the Derby in 1935 and was also an outstanding horse in international comparison.
Other derby winners followed in 1943 with Orsenigo (Italy), and in 1944 Nordlicht (Germany, Austria). In England he put Pink Flower in second place in the classic Guineas 2,000 stakes.
With Orleans he was the winner in 1954 in the Grand Steeplechase de Paris, the largest hunting race in France. It was the only time that a German stallion presented a winner in this race.
With Aster (family 9-h), Oleander brought an internationally recognized brood mare to Schlenderhan Stud.
Despite his eminent influence on thoroughbred breeding, his direct male line in Germany has been extinct for almost 40 years, but in Ukraine and Belarus there are still stallions in thoroughbred breeding that go back to him via his son Raufbold.
Thoroughbred stallions by Oleander
- 1931 Ebro
- 1932 Ausonius (Sweden)
- 1932 Petrel
- 1933 Amaranthus
- 1933 periander
- 1934 Burgundy
- 1934 Trollius
- 1935 Marshal Forward
- 1935 Wunderhorn (Sweden) - 1945 Julianus SWE
- 1936 Order of the Sun (Poland) - 1949 Wizjer POL
- 1937 Samurai (USA)
- 1938 Figaro
- 1938 Nuvolari
- 1939 Rinaldo
- 1940 Erno (Italy)
- 1940 Orsenigo ITY (Italy, Brazil)
- 1940 Pink Flower GB (England) - 1948 Wilwyn (GB, SAF) - 1956 Wildeal JPN -1965 Date Horai JPN
- 1940 Raufbold GER (RUS) - 1952 Razbeg RUS, 1955 Garnir RUS, 1960 Gaer RUS, 1961 Murmansk RUS
- 1941 Northern Lights (USA)
- 1941 student
- 1944 Filiberto
- 1944 Honved
- 1945 Espace Vital (Chile)
- 1947 Asterios
Stallion lines in warmblood breeding
- 1936 Marabou 1940–1944 Hptb. Trakehnen 1945–1951 Ldb. Osnabrück 1952–1955 Ldb. Celle, died in 1955
- Marshal Forward
- Brawler - 1961 Murmansk RUS, 1958 Priz RUS (Poland), 1953 Rubelnik RUS
Monuments
As a present for his wife Berta Kiehn, the manufacturer Fritz Kiehn had the oleander fountain built in Trossingen in 1963 . The life-size bronze sculpture Oleander was made by the sculptor Fritz Behn .
A bronze sculpture of Oleander by Ernemann Sander is located in the district of Quadrath-Ichendorf in the district town of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft district at Schlenderhan stud .
Web links
- Thoroughbred Heritage: Oleander
- biography
- Pedigree
- Racing performance
- progeny
- The mirror over oleanders
literature
- Rudolf Sternberg: From Patience to Nereide . Berlin 1937.
- The thoroughbred breed in the world . L. Ahnert-Verlag, 1970.
- Martin Beckmann: Oleander - memories of one of the greatest players on German turf, in "Thoroughbred - Zucht und Rennen", No. 67 . Cologne August 1976.
- Karl Reinbothe, International Race in Baden-Baden. 150 years of the Iffezheim racetrack , 2008, pp. 71–72
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Häffner, Karl Martin Ruff, Ina Schrumpf, Trossingen. Vom Alemannendorf zur Musikstadt , 1997, p. 379; See also archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Location: 48 ° 4 ′ 22.1 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 58.4 ″ E
