Windthrow (horse)

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Windthrow
Race: English blood
Father: Imperial eagle
Mother: Montagu's Harrier
Mother, father: Black grouse
Gender: stallion
Year of birth: 1972
Year of death: 1998
Country: Germany
Colour: brown
Breeder: Ravensberg stud
Owner: Ravensberg stud
Trainer: Heinz Gummelt
Record: 27 starts: 11 wins, 7 places
GAG : 105
Prize amount: 1,315,640 DM
Greatest wins, titles and awards
Greatest victories
Grand Prix of Baden 1977
Prize of Europe 1975 and 1976
Awards
Galopper of the year in Germany in 1976 and 1977

Infobox last modified on: December 7th, 2007.

Windwurf (* 1972, † 1998) was an English thoroughbred horse that was bred by Imperial Eagle from the meadow consecration at the Ravensberg stud of the Delius family .

ancestry

Windthrow was a direct descendant of Eclipse . His dam line (Fam. 5-h) with the parent dam Waldrun is one of the most successful thoroughbred families in Germany since 1945. With Windbruch, Waidwerk, Windfang, Poacher, Waidmannsheil and finally Windwurf, two German derby winners and numerous winners and placed in Race of the (European) group 1.

Windthrow was a rather small horse with a height of 1.60 m.

Racing career

Wind throw started in 27 races, won 11 of them and was placed 7 times (5 second, 2 third places). His winnings amounted to 1,315,640 DM (672,676 EUR). His highest rating in the GAG ​​(General Balance Weight) was 105 kg (1977). During his entire racing career he was looked after by Heinz Gummelt in Ravensberg.

He won 5 races in European group 1. After his victory in the Union race, Windwurf was one of the favorites at the start of the German Derby , in which he ran very unhappy. Because of another horse's handicap, he almost got stuck in the hedge and almost fell. In autumn he won the last classic race of the season with the St. Leger in Dortmund and then the internationally very renowned European Prize in Cologne.

In 1976 he won the Grand Prix of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf, among others. In the Baden Grand Prix in Iffezheim he was surprisingly beaten by Sharper and won the European Prize again in the fall. This makes him one of the few double winners of this important race and the highlight of the Cologne racing season. Windwurf ended his racing season in 1976 in November with a start in the then renowned Washington DC International (USA), but came with more than 20 lengths to the winner only in seventh place with nine participants.

In 1977 he won again in the Grand Prix of Berlin (until 1976 Grand Prix of North Rhine-Westphalia) and in the Grand Prix of Baden against the Derby winner of 1976, Stuyvesant. In autumn the European Prize was on the program again and Wind Throw started as the favorite. After the Russian Anilin (1963-1965) he would have been the second horse to have won this important race three times. But it wasn't his day, his jockey Geoff Lewis had crashed in a previous race. In addition, Wind Throw seemed to lose shape a little (over the mountain) and was no longer in top form. In a tough fight decision Ebano, the shooting star of the 1977 season, with Ralf Suerland in the saddle, won against the French On My Way, ridden by Alfred Gibert. Windthrow came over the line in the defeated field.

In 1976 and 1977 he was twice voted the most popular German public horse in Addi Furler 's election for Galopper of the Year .

In 1977 a start in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot had been considered. Due to the more favorable weather in Düsseldorf (wind throws preferred soft terrain), the start of the Berlin Grand Prix one day after the Ascot race was brought forward and was rewarded with victory.

Breeding career

After his racing career, Windwurf was set up as a stallion at the Waldfried Stud. At that time, Waldfried was housed in the Pähl Castle in Bavaria, so that it was in the very south, far away from the large stud farms in North Rhine-Westphalia and northern Germany. As a result, few foreign mares came to cover. In addition, the renowned kennel no longer had the great herd of mares that had been there before the war and until the early 1960s. The great success was thus failed. A few years later, Windwurf moved to his home stud in Ravensberg after his father Kaiseradler had resigned for reasons of age. The best mares from Ravensberg also descended from the dam Waldrun and so it was difficult to find suitable partners.

He fathered three classic winners and nine group race winners. As a mare's father (Broodmare-Sire) he is listed in the pedigrees of many class horses today.

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