Monsun

Infobox last modified on 29 June 2010.

Monsoon ( born March 4, 1990, † September 11, 2012 ) was a Thoroughbred horse. The stallion was on the stud Isarland near Munich, drawn by King chair from the Mosella and acquired by Georg Baron von Ullmann on the Baden yearling auction for 160,000 DM. He was the most important German sires in recent decades.

Racing career

Monsoon was a tough fighter and won particular 3 Group I race (" ARAL Cup ," 2 × " price " of Europe ). In the " German Derby " he was second to his stable companion Lando, whom he met several times with varying degrees of success ( 1 win at 3 defeats). Monsoon heard by experts in the assessment, perhaps best-ever Derby vintage in Germany. This includes, in addition Lando still Kornado, Star King and Commander. At the two countries start he took second place in the " Prix du Conseil Municipal de Paris " ( Group 2, Longchamp ), previously in the major " Coronation Cup " ( Group 1, Epsom, a race won by his son sirocco 2006 ) he was probably already on the dried turf innapropriate 4 ½ Lg behind the winner in sixth ( monsoon and many of his descendants showed their best racing achievements mostly on regendurchweichtem turf ).

Breeding career

In the stud itself monsoon proved to be an outstanding success:

• Of all German father horses he produced the most winners in Group races;
• With Manduro, sirocco, simoom Schiaparelli and he has already fathered four sons who are at least as good as he was as a racehorse. This is at the already high level of performance of monsoon as a race horse already unusual;
• He was several times champion of the German father Horse Championships Horse and took the father in recent years with few descendants in France and Italy in the top positions rating.

His offspring are often late-maturing, reaching only five years old their performance overhead, but most of his best offspring are already in two- year-old race successfully. His sons sirocco (winner, especially in the German Derby and Breeders' Cup Turf, Galopper of the year) and the race distance - independent European top horse 2007 Manduro have done a long time ridiculed abroad German thoroughbred breeding into the international spotlight.

With the mare sacarina ( from French and Irish Derby winner Old Vic ), he produced the two Derby winner simoom and Schiaparelli. This was the first and only time in the history of the German Derby that 2 "Right Brothers" won this race. In addition, her own sister Salve Regina was second in the Derby to Next Desert and won the Preis der Diana, the German mare Derby. Monsoon is also the father of the top upstand Le Miracle.

Immediately prices were obtained in the millions for the monsoon descendants in major world thoroughbred auctions often.

After monsoon had become blind, he was no longer so intensely used for breeding as other international top stallions. According to his stud fee in 2008 reached 150,000 € an unprecedented peak in Germany, beginning his breeding career was the stud fee 10,000 DM His previous best sons sirocco and Manduro were acquired by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Rashid Al Maktoum and his stud farms in England Ireland and used as the father horses. In autumn 2007, Sheikh Muhammad also earned multiple Group I winner Schiaparelli.

2009 wins with Stacelita a daughter of monsoon in the Prix de Diane at the races at Chantilly (France). For the first time won a monsoon daughter of the most important mare classics of the neighboring country and a Classic race in France at all. Stacelita, which also won the prestigious Prix Vermeille a few months later, though drawn in France, but with monsoon and soignée German parents and comes from the family of Black Gold, one of the largest mare family to the thoroughbred breeding.

Not least, the outstanding international success of monsoon descendants brought monsoon in October 2011 when a total of 218 "Chef -de -race" inclusion in the so-called New -dosage system. He is the fourth drawn in Germany stallion and after Oleander, Ticino and Gundomar the first for over 50 years, which was included in this classification.

On the evening of September 11, 2012 had to be euthanized due to acute high-grade neurological disease monsoon.