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MONDAY, 13 FEBRUARY, 2017 CLASSIC GROSS SURPASSES RECORD PATIENCE REWARDED IN With a day of trade still to come, the gross of Inglis=s Classic THE CASE OF MONSUN Yearling Sale in Sydney surpassed last year=s record total for the sale during the second session on Sunday. A total of A$27,848,000 was spent on 369 yearlings over the sale=s first two days, compared to a total spend of A$27,043,000 last year. The cumulative average sits at A$75,469, up 31% from last year=s final figures, and the cumulative median is A$55,000. The clearance rate is 87%. A session-to-session comparison also shows figures up on 2016. A total of 249 yearlings were sold on Sunday for A$16,977,500, compared to 188 sold last year (from 70 fewer offered) for A$11,385,500. The day=s average was up 12.6% on last year at A$68,183, while the median was unchanged at A$50,000. The top-priced offering of the day was a A$310,000 daughter of Fastnet Rock (Aus) offered by Coolmore Stud and purchased by owner Alan Bell. Cont. in Worldwide News p5 Monsun=s lifesize bronze at Gestut Schlenderhan | Emma Berry IN TDN AMERICA TODAY ILIAD FINDS HIS WAY HOME IN THE SAN VICENTE by Emma Berry Kaleem Shah’s Iliad (Ghostzapper) landed the GII San Vicente S. There are few stallions who have played a more significant at Santa Anita Park Sunday. Click or tap here to go straight to part in a single country's breeding industry than Monsun (Ger) TDN America. has in Germany. His name has come to dominate the Thoroughbred scene in his home nation, just as Sunday Silence did in his adopted homeland, Japan. But every great stallion needs his legacy to be maintained through his sons. Monsun's strength as a sire was his ability to impart soundness, stamina and durability to his offspring, and in many ways this has also been his downfall in attempting to establish a dynasty of Flat stallions. In a bloodstock world so increasingly blinkered in its pursuit of speed and precocity, these qualities have become overlooked and under-valued when it comes to supporting stallions who actually have a chance of producing a top-class middle-distance horse. And that is exactly what Monsun did with frequency. To the frustration of some German breeders, a number of Monsun's best colts have ended up standing as National Hunt stallions in Britain, Ireland and France. Cont. p2 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 2 OF 7 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 13 FEBRUARY, 2017 come close to emulating his father's exploits. Alexandra Bresges-Jung, whose family's Gestut Zoppenbroich bred Monsun's sire, the German Triple Crown winner Konigsstuhl (Ger), conjures up images of Highlander when she says that she believes, "There can be only one." She has a point. Sadler's Wells passed the baton to Galileo (Ire), Sunday Silence Patience Rewarded In The Case of Monsun Cont. from p1 to Deep Impact (Jpn), but who will be Monsun's most significant Boosted by the success of Network (Ger), sire of the heir? As we've seen, he's not short of representatives at stud. At outstanding Sprinter Sacre (Fr), the GI Breeders' Cup Turf and last count there were at least 21 sons scattered around Europe G1 Deutsches Derby winner Shirocco (Ger) was sold by Darley in and one--Fiorente (Ire)--at Sun Stud in Australia. That number 2014 to stand at Glenview Stud, where he has routinely covered has been boosted by three this year with Vadamos (Fr) being an three-figure books of mares. His popularity in that sphere has intriguing addition to the ranks of Tally-Ho Stud in Ireland, while been greatly enhanced by his Champion Hurdle-winning Triple Threat (Fr) joins Haras du Mont Goubert in France and daughter Annie Power (Ire). Protectionist (Ger) bolsters the home guard by retiring to Gestut Two more top-class sons, Getaway (Ger) and Schiaparelli Rottgen. (Ger)--with a total of 21 victories between them in 43 But at present it is another German-based stallion who looks starts--went straight to the to have a decent chance of National Hunt division in the becoming the heir apparent, and same year, the former to that is Gestut Fahrhof's Maxios Coolmore's Grange Stud, where (GB). The Niarchos Family he was the busiest stallion in all homebred from the family of of Ireland and Britain in 2014, Machiavellian was a sharper sort covering 295 mares. Schiaparelli than his Arc-winning retired to Overbury Stud in half-brother Bago (Fr) Britain, where a smaller pool of (Nashwan), recording his eight jumps mares means he will wins between a mile and 10 struggle to match Getaway for furlongs, all in France for trainer number of runners. Jonathan Pease. Remaining in Shirocco's brother September training until he was five, he Storm (Ger) is also gaining a rewarded his owner-bredeer foothold in the jumps market, as with two Group 1 victories that is Gentlewave (Ire), who moved season--in the Prix du Moulin to Yorton Farm in Britain after and Prix d'Ispahan. Protectionist at Gestut Rottgen | Emma Berry spending eight seasons at Of course, Maxios has yet to Normandy's Haras du Thenney. have a runner, so it's dangerous even to start to compare him to Arcadio (Ger) has covered huge books of jumping mares, and his father, but if he fails, it will not be for lack of decent support he has been joined at Arctic Tack Stud by another son of and good management. The Fahrhof team has been pro-active Monsun, Aizavoski (Ire), while Ocovango (Ger) has recently been in its approach, acknowledging that many breeders outside recruited to another Coolmore wing, Beeches Stud, and has his Germany may not have the chance to see Maxios, so they first yearlings this year. brought him to the National Stud in Newmarket during the Darley's French base at Haras du Logis retains two of Monsun's December Sales of 2015 and he accompanied his stud-mate better Flat hopes. Manduro (Ger), who won group races Pastorius (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) to Deauville during the between eight and 12 furlongs during his four seasons in Arqana December Sale that same year. training and was Horse of the Year in 2007, continues to be A decent number of his first crop made it to sales outside under-rated despite being the sire of six Group 1 winners, while Germany and were well received, but it was at last year's BBAG Masterstroke, who has his first runners this season, can boast Sale in September that the buzz really started. Maxios's Galileo and Sea The Stars as his close relations. explosive debut at Iffezheim included three top-10 yearlings and Despite Monsun having been responsible for a German a total of 16 sold for an average just shy of i74,000. champion sire in Samum, the hunt goes on for a son who can Cont. p3 TDN EUROPE/INTERNATIONAL • PAGE 3 OF 7 • THETDN.COM MONDAY • 13 FEBRUARY, 2017 the ownership of the same family throughout its near 150-year existence. The historic farm's current owner Baron Georg von Ullmann, in whose colours Monsun and a number of his most successful offspring raced, is the great-grandson of the stud's founder Baron Simon von Oppenheim. One of Schlenderhan's most prodigious Thoroughbred families, that of the homebred German Derby and Oaks winner Asterblute, is very much still in existence at the farm and has been hugely influential via the great mare's fifth-generation descendant Allegretta, the dam of Urban Sea (Miswaki), Allez Les Trois (Riverman) and King's Best (Kingmambo). Schlenderhan currently stands just one stallion, Adlerflug (Ger) (In The Wings {Ire}), and he too represents this family. His third dam Anatevka is also the dam of Allegretta. Two homebred stallions stand just down the road in Bergheim at Gestut Erftmuhle, including Allegretta's grandson Tertullian and his son Monsun=s son Maxios | Emma Berry Guiliani (Ire), out of the Monsun mare Guadalupe (Ger) and thus from the family of Getaway. Patience Rewarded In The Case of Monsun Cont. Schlenderhan's General Manager Gebhard Apelt is quite Buyers included South Africa's Mayfair Speculators and candid in his assessment of Monsun's contribution to the Australian Bloodstock, who won the G1 Melbourne Cup with continuation of the farm. "If he hadn't been here we would be Protectionist and bought a Maxios colt out of a half-sister to GI bankrupt," he says quite simply. "Monsun effectively lived on an Man O'War S. winner Wake Forest (Ger) (Sir Percy {GB}) who island--he was a complete outcross. When I saw his first has been sent into training with Andreas Wohler. 2-year-olds in training and they were such easy gallopers I knew With the Niarchos family having retained a significant share in he would have a good chance. He had the champion 2-year-old Maxios, and support from many of Germany's leading Sommernacht in his first crop of only 28 foals. But it is important owner-breeders, there will be a decent number of well-bred to remember that they got so much better at three and older individuals who have not yet been seen in public. This year he and it was important not to push them too hard too soon." will have his first runners and, as important as it is for any Cont.