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Zarak’s Shagara Prevails In Winterkonigin Thriller

Just a head separated Shagara (Ire) (Zarak {Fr}–She Bang {Fr}, by Monsun {Ger}) and Lady Mary (Ger) (Lawman {Fr}) when they ran second and third in last month's Listed Winterkonigin-Trial at Cologne, and it was a case of as you were as the pair fought out an exciting finish to Sunday's G3 BBAG Preis der Winterkonigin at Baden-Baden. Shagara had earlier defeated the reopposing New York City (Ger) (Sea The Moon {Ger}) over seven furlongs in her Aug. 19 debut at Mulheim and that rival provided an added boost to the form by finishing on the podium in this one-mile test.

The eventual winner, sent postward as the crowd's 13-5 pick, raced in mid division during the opening exchanges and went through halfway in fifth. Bustled along rounding the home turn, Shagara made relentless headway in the straight to take a share of third entering the final furlong–where she received a hefty bump from Lady Mary–and kept on strongly under continued rousting to deny that rival by a head on the line for a career high. New York City held a slender advantage inside the furlong pole, but was usurped in the closing stages and finished 1 1/2 lengths adrift in third.

“She has the heart of a lion and fought incredibly hard,” said winning rider Andrasch Starke. “She was really strong at the finish and what a racehorse she is.” Trainer Markus Klug added, “It's crazy what a fighter's heart Shagara has. She put in so much effort to win and now she will take her well-deserved winter break.” Gestut Schlenderhan's general manager Gebhard Apelt continued, “She wasn't in the best position at first and it is very rare to see a 2-year-old fight like that.”

Pedigree Notes
Shagara, who becomes the 12th pattern-race winner for her sire, is the sixth of seven foals and one of five scorers produced by a winning sibling of Listed Hannover Derby-Trial runner-up Sargas (Ire) (Shirocco {Ger}). Her second dam, Listed Henkel-Trial victrix Servenya (Ger) (Dashing Blade {GB}), is a full-sister to G2 Maurice Lacroix-Trophy runner-up Slawomira (Ger) and a half to Listed Preis der Hotellerie Baden-Baden victor Skythe (Ger) (Spectrum {Ire}) and the stakes-placed duo Stoikov (Ger) (Platini {Ger}) and Salomea (Ire) (Monsun {Ger}). Servenya is also kin to the dam of this race's 2004 winner Sorrent (Ger) (Monsun {Ger}). The March-foaled homebred bay is a half-sister to G2 Union-Rennen third Sky Out (Ire) (Adlerflug {Ger}) and a weanling colt by Ito (Ger) named Shejtan (Ire).

 

Sunday, Baden-Baden, Germany
BBAG – PREIS DER WINTERKONIGIN-G3, €155,000, Baden-Baden, 10-15, 2yo, f, 8fT, 1:42.22, g/s.
1–SHAGARA (IRE), 128, f, 2, by Zarak (Fr)
1st Dam: She Bang (Fr), by Monsun (Ger)
2nd Dam: Servenya (Ger), by Dashing Blade (GB)
3rd Dam: Slawa (Ger), by Polish Precedent
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. O/B-Gestut Schlenderhan (IRE); T-Markus Klug; J-Andrasch Starke. €85,000. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0, €95,400. *1/2 to Sky Out (Ire) (Adlerflug {Ger}), GSP-Ger. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Lady Mary (Ger), 128, f, 2, Lawman (Fr)–La Reine Noir (Ger), by Rainbow Quest). 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O/B-Graf & Grafin von Stauffenberg (GER); T-Andreas Suborics. €31,000.
3–New York City (Ger), 128, f, 2, Sea The Moon (Ger)–Nouvelle Neige (Ger), by Big Shuffle. 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O/B-Gestut Ebbesloh (GER); T-Sarah Steinberg. €20,500.
Margins: HD, 1HF, 1 1/4. Odds: 2.60, 4.20, 6.60.
Also Ran: Words Of Peace (Ger), Saman (Ger), Princess Valentina (Ger), Anna Riva (Ger), Linzona (Ger), Princesa (Ger), Go Quick (Ger).

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Group 1 Winner Mare Australis Retired To Haras De La Hetraie

Mare Australis (Ire) (Australia {GB}–Miramare {Ger}, by Rainbow Quest), a winner at the highest level in France, has been sold to Pascal Noue of Haras de la Hetraie and will stand there next year, www.galopponline.de reported on Tuesday. The deal was brokered by Tina Rau and Richard Venn. A fee for the dual-purpose stallion will be announced later.

Bred by Stall Ullmann and raced by Gestut Schlenderhan and Andre Fabre, the 5-year-old won on debut at Munich in November of his juvenile year. In three starts at three, he scored in the Listed Prix de l'Avre second up and was then second in the G2 Prix du Conseil de Paris. Runner-up in the G2 Prix d'Harcourt when making his 4-year-old bow in 2020, he ran out a 1 3/4-length victor of the G1 Prix Ganay that May. From five starts this term, he was third in the Prix d'Harcourt and later added the G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly. Mare Australis retires with a mark of 11-4-2-1 and $408,989 in earnings.

He is out of multiple stakes placed Miramare and is her last living foal. His dam is a half-sister to group winners Montclaire (Ire) (Montjeu {Ire}) and Macleya (Ger) (Winged Love {Ire}), who was also second in the G1 Prix Royal-Oak. The family has also been effective Stateside, with GI Manhattan S. and GI United Nations S. hero Tribhuvan (Fr) (Toronado {Ire}) also under the second dam.

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Adlerflug’s Mendocino Registers An Upset In Germany

Stall Salzburg's Mendocino (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}–Mill Marin {Ire}, by Pivotal {GB}), whose previous career best was a runner-up finish behind Alpinista (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in last November's G1 Grosser Preis von Bayern, initiated a pilot merry-go-round when Rene Piechulek was obliged to take the mount aboard the Sarah Steinberg trainee, but it was all smiles for the jockey as the 4-year-old colt upset illustrious opposition in a stellar renewal of Sunday's G1 152nd Wettstar.de Grosser Preis von Baden at Baden-Baden's Iffezheim venue. Piechulek had ridden last year's winner and G1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hero Torquator Tasso (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}) in each of his last seven runs and was also in the plate when Sammarco (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) added to his G1 Deutsches Derby triumph in July's G1 Grosser Dallmayr-Preis at Munich. With punters making the 12-furlong test an effective match between the two elite-level winners, it was a masterclass in waiting tactics as the 69-10 outsider-of-four was delivered late by the rider to register a first black-type success of any kind.

Mendocino had garnered prizemoney in each of his nine prior runs, winning two, and arrived for his date with destiny off the back of a third in ParisLongchamp's May 12 G3 Prix d'Hedouville and a fifth in June's G2 Grand Prix de Chantilly last time. The eventual winner found comfort behind all three rivals and raced fourth, with his head in his chest, passing the judge first time. Inching closer as Torquator Tasso and Sammarco locked horns early and lit each other up off the home turn, he fanned widest of all to the stands' side rail in early straight and refused to yield once hitting the front with 100 metres remaining, holding the late rally of the former by a head in game fashion. Sammarco kept on to finish 1 1/4 lengths further adrift in third.

“I had a mega race, Mendocino switched off well at the back and showed tremendous speed at the end,” said Piechulek after claiming back-to-back victories in the contest. “The result is just awesome and everything worked out wonderfully.” Winning trainer Sarah Steinberg added, “He was coming back off a break, the competition was very strong and we would have been satisfied if Mendocino had finished in the first three. In the race, he was able to stay out of everything and pulled out big at the end. This is a very emotional moment for me. He's supposed to come home before we commit to anything, but of course the [G1 Prix de l'] Arc [de Triomphe] is a very likely destination.” Stall Salzburg's Hans-Gerd Wernicke, who also raced Night Magic (Ger) (Sholokhov {Ire}) to farm this contest in 2010, commented, “The break was worth it. We thought long and hard about running here and, ultimately, we made the right decision. Sarah Steinberg is not only first class as a person, but also a first-class trainer.”

“Unfortunately he had the worst race of all participants, he couldn't find any cover and was always galloping freely,” reflected Torquator Tasso's trainer Marcel Weiss. “It's not his ideal track, even though he'd won here before.” Frankie Dettori added, “There wasn't enough pace in the race and the ground wasn't soft enough either. I started working with a half mile to go, but the winner accelerated faster in the straight.” Gestut Auenquelle's Peter-Michael Endres continued, “It was anything but a good race for him, but that's horse racing. It could look different again in Paris and I've just booked Frankie for the Arc.”

Despite a first reversal in four starts, Peter Schiergen was satisfied with the performance of Sammarco, who looks bound for Cologne and the G1 Preis von Europa. “He attacked well, he ran a great race again today and we didn't disgrace ourselves,” the trainer said. “Sammarco always runs great and the Preis von Europa is an option.”

Mendocino, who becomes the eighth Group 1 winner for his ill-fated sire (by In The Wings {GB}), is the first elite-level scorer for the stakes-winning Mill Marin (Ire) (Pivotal {GB}). Her first foal is G3 Grosser Preis der Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf victrix Marshmallow (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}) while her fourth is last year's Listed Junioren-Preis third Millionaire (Ger) (Adlerflug {GB}). The March-foaled chestnut's stakes-placed second dam Mill Guineas (Salse), who also produced Listed Prix Herod second Olvia (Ire) (Giant's Causeway), is kin to G2 Falmouth S. victrix Ronda (GB) (Bluebird) and stakes-winning G3 Prix de Conde runner-up Silver Gilt (GB) (Silver Hawk). Ronda, who is the dam of GIII Ack Ack H. scorer Istan (Gone West), is also a half-sister to the dam of G3 Prix du Calvados and G3 Ridgewood Pearl S. victrix Purr Along (GB) (Mount Nelson {GB}), Listed Land O'Burns Fillies' S. winner Katawi (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) and the dual stakes-placed Lady Francesca (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}). Mendocino's fourth dam Memory Lane (Never Bend) won the G3 Princess Royal S. and is a full-sister to G1 Derby hero and leading sire Mill Reef (Never Bend). Mill Marin has a yearling colt by Gleneagles (Ire) to come.

Sunday, Baden-Baden, Germany
152ND WETTSTAR.DE GROSSER PREIS VON BADEN-G1, €200,000, Baden-Baden, 9-4, 3yo/up, 12fT, 2:38.71, g/s.
1–MENDOCINO (GER), 132, c, 4, by Adlerflug (Ger)
1st Dam: Mill Marin (Ire) (SW-Swe, $148,712), by Pivotal (GB)
2nd Dam: Mill Guineas, by Salse
3rd Dam: Memory's Gold, by Java Gold
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN; 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. (€58,000 RNA Ylg '19 BBAGS). O-Stall Salzburg; B-Gestut Brummerhof (GER); T-Sarah Steinberg; J-Rene Piechulek. €115,000. Lifetime Record: 10-3-2-1, €204,050. *Full to Millionaire (Ger), SP-Ger; and 1/2 to Marshmallow (Ger) (Soldier Hollow {GB}), GSW-Ger. Werk Nick Rating: B+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Torquator Tasso (Ger), 132, h, 5, Adlerflug (Ger)–Tijuana (Ger), by Toylsome (GB). (€24,000 Ylg '18 BBAGO). O-Gestut Auenquelle; B-Paul H Vandeberg (GER); T-Marcel Weiss. €44,000.
3–Sammarco (Ire), 125, c, 3, Camelot (GB)–Saloon Sold (Ger), by Soldier Hollow (GB). (€120,000 RNA Ylg '20 BBAGS). O/B-Gestut Park Wiedingen (IRE); T-Peter Schiergen. €23,000.
Margins: HD, 1 1/4, HF. Odds: 6.90, 0.70, 2.20.
Also Ran: Alter Adler (Ger). Scratched: Ardakan (GB). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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‘It’s Absolutely Like a Film’: Paul Vandeberg on Breeding Torquator Tasso

“I can't say I'm not fine because I'm such a lucky man in the last two years with my hobby of breeding horses. It's not a normal position to be in.”

So says Paul Vandeberg, breeder not only of the reigning Arc hero Torquator Tasso (Ger) (Adlerflug {Ger}) but also of Tünnes (Ger) (Guiliani {Ire}), who as a 2-year-old last season won the G3 Herzog von Ratibor-Rennen. The colts are half-brothers and, remarkably, their dam Tijuana (Ger) (Toylsome {GB}) is the only mare owned by the Dutch breeder.

It is no case of beginner's luck for Vandeberg, however. For many years before thoroughbred breeding cast its spell over him he had been breeding Dutch warmbloods. And once he turned his hand to racehorses, it wasn't just the breeding that enthralled Vandeberg as he also trained for a time at Duindigt racecourse in The Hague, with a third-place finisher in the Dutch Derby the closest he came to major-race success.

He crept one position closer to Classic glory when Torquator Tasso finished second to In Swoop (Ire) (Adlerflug {Ger}) in the German Derby of 2020, and it wasn't long before the colt Vandeberg had sold for €24,000 at the BBAG Yearling Sale was a Group 1 winner in his own right. Torquator Tasso won the Grosser Preis von Berlin later that season, but it is of course what he achieved the following year that has brought him to the wider attention of the racing public.

Having beaten the 2021 German Derby winner Sisfahan (Fr) (Isfahan {Ger}) in the G1 Grosser Preis von Baden, Torquator Tasso left his home nation for the first time for his famous 80-1 victory in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. His breeder, not daring to believe he could win, did not go with him.

“I had a good feeling about him, and I thought maybe he could have finished fifth,” Vandeberg admits. “But winning? That was a surprise.”

Based in The Netherlands at Hilleshagen, just kilometres from the German border, Vandeberg was active for decades in the Dutch thoroughbred breeding association but gradually based his breeding interests at Bergheim, not far from Cologne, as his home country's pool of broodmares dwindled. 

“In the beginning, for the first 25 years, I bred only Dutch horses, and then when I became involved with Dutch racing, at that time we had a lot of good owners,” he says. “Some of them went to England to have their horses trained. Then after 20, 25 years, the sport in Holland started going backwards. When I sat on the breeders' committee we had about 250 broodmares. Now at the moment in Holland, there are maybe five, six [thoroughbred] broodmares.”

Vandeberg continues, “Then I bought a filly in Germany. I went to stallions in Germany, and for a long time now I have kept mares at a stud in Germany.”

That stud is Gestüt Erftmühle, just two kilometres down the road from the legendary Gestüt Schlenderhan, which plays a significant role in the Torquator Tasso story as the breeder of his dam.

“When I lost my last mare, I asked around in Germany about buying a filly,” Vandeberg recalls. “Then sometimes at the track I saw Gebhard Apelt, the manager of Schlenderhan, and I asked him. 

“I got Tijuana with one condition: that Schlenderhan could have the first filly out of the mare. So when Tellez was born, I gave her back, and they are her breeders on paper.”

Tellez (Ger) is a full-sister to Tünnes, both of them being by the Erftmühle resident and Schlenderhan-bred Group 1 winner Guiliani, whose pedigree combines two of Schlenderhan's most noted stallions in his sire Tertullian–who is closely related to Urban Sea–and his damsire Monsun (Ger). 

Tijuana managed just one placed finish from an underwhelming racing career but there was plenty to encourage a small breeder to take her on. For starters she is a half-sister to the Group 2-winning filly Tusked Wings (Ger), who is by Torquator Tasso's German Derby-winning sire Adlerflug. Her granddam is Turbaine, the Trempolino half-sister to Urban Sea who features as the dam of Tertullian. In sending Tijuana thrice to Guiliani and four times to the late Adlerflug for her first seven matings, Vandeberg was thus inbreeding to Germany's most influential family.

Using a suffix local to him for those horses he has named, Vandeberg currently has Torquator Tasso's 2-year-old sister Tiara Hilleshage (Ger) in training with Marcel Weiss alongside her illustrious elder brother. He also wants to keep hold of the yearling full-brother named Tiamo Hilleshage (Ger). Tellez, now four, races for Schlenderhan, while the mare's first foal, Tibo Hilleshage (Ger), also by Guiliani, broke his leg while in training and never raced.

The 11-year-old mare, who has a Guiliani foal at foot, was covered this season by Gestüt Fahrhof's newcomer Alson (Ger), a son of Areion (Ger) who was also bred by Schlenderhan.

This year's BBAG Yearling Sale takes place on Friday and Vandeberg admits to an internal tussle over whether or not to capitalise on the success of the Arc winner in offering his brother for sale.

He says, “I could have taken him to Arqana in Deauville. I could bring him to Baden-Baden. I spoke with a lot of people, and if I used my brains I would have decided sell him, but if I use my heart, I say, 'I don't want to sell him'.”

While offers will doubtless continue to be made for members of Tijuana's family, Vandeberg can in the meantime continue to enjoy the exploits of her offspring, especially, imminently, the return of the 'big two'.

The 'Grosse Woche', Baden-Baden's most prestigious week of racing, gets underway this weekend. Tünnes, the one-time German Derby favourite, is set to make his long-awaited comeback after a setback ruled him out of the first half of his Classic season. The Peter Schiergen-trained colt is set to run in the BBAG sales race at the track on Wednesday, while Torquator Tasso, with Frankie Dettori booked to ride for the first time, will attempt to defend his crown in next Sunday's Grosser Preis von Baden.

“Torquator Tasso has many fans at the moment because he was Horse of the Year in Germany in 2020 and '21. I hope he has a chance for the third year to be Horse of the Year,” says the justifiably proud breeder.

“It is fantastic what has happened with this horse and what has happened for me in that time because we have been breeding horses for more than 50 years, and then suddenly we have not just a Group 1 winner but one of the best horses of the world. It's absolutely like a film.”

 

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