Actual Informations and Stories
23.07.2017 GraN Torino wins the race p. Hipodromo de Biarritz 2200m in San Sebastian.
23.07.2017 Our stallion Buggatti enters the top 10 of the spanish stallion statistics in the Breeding season 2018. Bugatti will be available at the haras de ulzama in Spain
18.06.2017 Intaglio wins his first start in 2017 a handicap of 2100m in Madrid.
11.06.2017 Gran Torino wins the premio Rheffissimo 2400m easily by 7 lengths
GRAN TORINO
ON SUNDAY, 30TH OF APRIL 2017, OUR GRAN TORINO WON THE PREMIO INDIAN PRINCE (2800 M) IN MADRID.
WE WERE VERY PLEASED with THAT VICTORY, BECAUSE BEFORE WE HAD DOUBTS ABOUT GRAN TORINOS STAYING ABILITY. HIS PRIOR WINS WERE ALL BETWEEN 1600 M AND 2200 M.
WITH THE HIGHEST WEIGHT OF 62 KG HE ESTABLISHED HIMSELF IN THE SPANISCH STAYER ELITE.
Nomen est omen
Ana says: “su potra Jet Lag es mucho babe, todavia
no puede correr”.
Ana is the Spanish
trainer of Jet Lag our home bred thoroughbred filly, 3 years of age
now.
Ana has her
training stables in San Sebastian in the Basque country. She is very
competent straight forward and successful.
We are happy with
her work.
The language
barrier makes the communication sometimes a little bit difficult.
Jet Lag has been in
training for one year now and still behaves like a baby, well let's
say like a teenager. Her work is inconsistent, sometimes very good,
most times unfocused and unreliable
I am getting nervous seeing the classic season
passing by without our participation. Yet my trainer asks me to be
patient.
“Arrogate” America superstar of the moment, best rated race horse of the present, highest prize money winner ever, started his racing career as a 3 year old on the 17. of April last year. Two weeks before his equine competitors ran the Kentucky Derby. Most of them with solid racing experience from 2 years on. A few failing already physically or psychologically. The extreme demand and pressure of the early training taking its toll.
IT MAKES ME WONDER WHERE SOME OF THOSE HORSES WOULD HAVE REACHED WITH MORE TIME TO DEVELOP. SO I PIN A PICTURE OF “ARROGATE” ON MY FILLY’S STABLE WALL AND TELL HER TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF OUR SUPER HERO. And by the way, how could I give her the name Jetlag AND YET HOPE THAT SHE WOULD BE ONE OF THE PRECOCIOUS KIND?!
MANDOLINA
AS WE WERE CELEBRATING THE 19TH BIRTHDAY OF THE GREAT SIRE GALILEO I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO ONE OF OUR FOUNDER MARES MANDOLINA BECAUSE SHE BELONGS TO HIS MOTHER LINE. (FAMILY 9 H)
THE A-LINE WAS CULTIVATED BY GESTÜT SCHLENDERHAN IN GERMANY SINCE 1907 AND STARTED TO BLOOM IN 1949 WHEN ASTERBLÜTE WON THE GERMANY DERBY AND OAKS AND WAS ONE OF THE BEST RACE HORSES OF HER GENERATION.
LET’S NOT GO BACK THAT FAR AND START WITH ALLEGRETTA WHO IS THE 3 MOTHER OF OUR MANDOLINA.
SHE WAS BORN 1978 IN ENGLAND.
AFTER A USEFUL RACING CAREER UNDER SIR MICHAEL STOUTE SHE WAS SOLD AT THE TATTERSALL’S AUCTION IN 1981 TO AMERICAN INTERESTS TO START HER CAREER AS A BROODMARE.
HER FIRST FOAL WAS MARLENE KELLY 1985 BY IRISH CASTLE A SON OF BOLD RULER. SHE IS THE SECOND MOTHER OF MANDOLINA.
ALLEGRETTA BROUGHT 12 FOALS. WITHOUT DOUBT THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL WAS URBAN SEA, BORN 1989. URBAN SEA WAS A WONDERFUL RACE MARE WHO WON 5 GROUP RACES. THE MOST IMPORTANT WAS THE PRIX ARC DE TRIOMPHE. HER MERITS AS A BROODMARE SHOULD EVEN BE SUPERIOR. 2 OF HER 11 FOALS STAYED UNRACED THE OTHER 9 WERE ALL BLACK TYPE WINNERS, CROWNED BY THE CAMPION RACERS GALILEO AND SEA THE STARS, BOTH OF THEM PROVING THEMSELVES NOW AS LEADING STALLIONS.
MARLENE KELLY BORN IN THE USA WAS EXPORTED BACK TO GERMANY. PAIRED WITH THE ONLY GERMANY TRIPLE CROWN WINNER EVER KÖNIGSTUHL SHE BROUGHT THE FILLY MONDA FOR GESTÜT HOF ITTLINGEN. MONDA WON 4 OF HER 14 RACES AND HAD ONLY 5 FOALS, OF WHICH OUR MANDOLINA WAS THE SECOND. MANDOLINA’S FATHER PLATINI, A SURUMU SON AND AN INTERNATIONAL RACE TRACK CHAMPIGNON, HAILS TO GERMANS MOST SUCCESSFUL SIRE LINE.
MANDOLINA CARRIES THE GENES OF THE VERY BEST GERMAN BLOOD LINES. SHE WAS BREAD AND RAISED AT THE GESTÜT ETZEAN IN GERMANY AND WAS TRAINED AND RACED BY WALDEMAR HICKST IN COLONIA.
SHE WON 4 OF HER 20 RACES AND WE BOUGHT HER PRIVATELY IN THE SUMMER OF 2005 AS A 4 YEAR OLD.
AFTER HER TRANSFER TO PORTUGAL HER FIRST MATING PARTNER WAS MULTAZEM A SON OF KING MAMBO. SHE BROUGHT A VERY NICE FILLY WHICH UNFORTUNATELY HAD A LETHAL PADDOCK ACCIDENT AS A 2 YEAR OLD.
UNTIL NOW WE DID NOT HAVE VERY MUCH LUCK WITH HER OFFSPRING. TWO DIED, ONE LOST AN EYE AND THE ONLY ONE IN TRAINING - GREAT SWELL - HAD A MINOR RACING CAREER IN HUNGARY WITH 2 WINS BEFORE HEALTH PROBLEMS STOPPED HER TO SHOW HER FULL POTENTIAL.
THE BEST HAS STILL TO COME.