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We list below in alphabetical order the five new stallions in Germany for 2017, all Group One winners:

GUILIANI, 2011, Tertullian- Guadalupe (Monsun)

Guliiani was a smart miler, but his best performance came when winning the Group One Dallmayr-Preis over ten furlongs at Munich in 2015. In all he won 5 of his 13 starts. There were high hopes for him last year, but after winning a Group Three over a mile on his debut at Düsseldorf he was injured and had to be retired. He raced throughout in the colours of his breeder Stall Ullmann and was trained by Jean-Pierre Carvalho.

He has an excellent pedigree, being a full brother to 2016 Group One winner Guignol and a three-parts brother to Group One winner Getaway (Monsun), now a popular N.H. stallion in Ireland. His dam Guadalupe was one of the best fillies of her crop in Europe, winning the Oaks d´Italia (then a Group One) and also runner-up to Islington in the Yorkshire Oaks, third in the Preis der Diana and fourth in the Vermeille. He remains the property of the Ullmann family and stands at Gestüt Erftmühle at a fee of 3,500 euros.

ISFAHAN, 2013, Lord of England –Independent Miss (Polar Falcon)

Isfahan was very lightly raced, only running six times. He won three of those races, including Germany´s most important two-year-old race, the Group Three Preis des Winterfavoriten, and also the most important three-year-old race, the Group One Deutsches Derby. He also won the Bavarian Classic but after that race ran fifth in the Italian Derby on very firm going, which is believed to have caused the problems which resulted in his early retirement. Clearly he preferred plenty of cut in the ground and he found the bad conditions at Hamburg in the Derby ideal. The Derby finish was very tight and also controversial, but there is every reason to believe that he was a worthy winner. The form of the race has worked out well and it is a shame that he himself never had the opportunity to prove himself one of the better recent winners of the race.

He was bred by Rennstall Wöhler (trainer Andreas Wöhler and his wife Susi) and sold at the BBAG Yearling Sale for 35,000 euros to Holger Faust, racing manager for his new owner Darius Racing. Happily, he went into training with his breeder Andreas Wöhler. Wöhler´s brother-in-law Manfred Hofer had bought the dam as an unraced two-year-old in 2002 for only 5,000 guineas at Tattersalls December sales, partly because she was a grand-daughter of German Group One winner Indica (Athenagoras), whom Hofer had ridden during his jockey career. Independent Miss has bred several winners, notably Group Three winner Incantator (Areion). Isfahan is standing at Gestüt Ohlerweiherhof at a fee of 4,000 euros, with various bonus offers. Holger Faust bought several mares during the autumn sales for Dr. Stefan Oschmann (Darius Racing) and his partners to support their new stallion.

ITO, 2011, Adlerflug – Iota (Tiger Hill)

Ito raced for Gestüt Schlenderhan and was a strong front-runner, winning 7 of his 15 starts, notably the Group One Grosser Preis von Bayern. He was the best runner from the first crop of hot stallion Adlerflug, who won the German Derby for Schlenderhan in 2007 and has been moved to Schlenderhan for the next two years, while his original base at Harzburg is renovated. Ito is the first son of Adlerflug to stand at stud.

His dam Iota won the Preis der Diana for Schlenderhan in 2005. He is also distantly related to Isfahan (see above); they are both direct descendants of the French filly Yonne (Indus), who won the Poule d´Essai des Pouliches for breeder Francois Dupré in 1939 and came to Germany in 1940. Top-class Ivanhowe, a Group One winner in Germany and Australia, is another member of this family which has done so well for Schlenderhan and other German breeders. Gestüt Ammerland has acquired a 50% share in Ito and he now stands at Ammerland on the shores of Lake Starnberg for a fee of 5,000 euros.

LUCKY LION, 2011, High Chaparall – Lips Arrow (Big Shuffle)

Lucky Lion was bought by his trainer Andreas Löwe for 80,000 euros at the 2012 BBAG Yearling Sale and proved to be an inspired purchase for owner Gestüt Winterhauch. He turned out to be the second best three-year-old of his crop in Germany, behind only the outstanding Sea The Moon (Sea The Stars), to whom he finished runner-up, at a respectable distance, in the 2014 Deutsches Derby. He did not really stay a mile and a half and had earlier been an easy winner of the Dr. Busch-Memorial and the Mehl-Mülhens-Rennen (2,000 Guineas) and later put up his best performance when defeating Frankel´s brother Noble Mission, subsequently winner of the Champion Stakes, in the Dallmayr-Preis over ten furlongs at Munich. He was a close fourth the following year in the same race behind Guiliani (see above).

His dam Lips Arrow won two listed races and is a half-sister to German 1,000 Guineas winner Lips Poison (Mamool). Lucky Lion´s breeder Stall Parthenaue (Hans-Dieter Lindemeyer) keeps mares at historic Gestüt Graditz in Torgau, once the Prussian state stud, and Lucky Lion is to stand there where he was himself reared at a fee of 5,000 euros.

PROTECTIONIST, 2010, Monsun – Patineuse (Peintre Celebre)

More has been written about Protectionist than about any other German thoroughbred of the modern era, as the son of top sire Monsun had an extraordinary career with many ups and downs. He won 8 of his 22 career starts, but that includes 8 unplaced efforts in 2015 in Australia, when he lost his form completely following his brilliant victory in the 2014 Melbourne Cup, one of the highlights of his trainer Andreas Wöhler´s highly successful career. In Germany his record reads six wins and four places in ten starts, all in good company. He was a leading fancy for the 2013 Deutsches Derby before a freak injury put him out of contention, but Wöhler brought him slowly back to top form at four, culminating in that glorious Flemington victory. Sent back to Wöhler last year, Protectionist was once again nursed back to full health and won all his three domestic starts in 2016, including the Group One Grosser Preis von Berlin. He is officially rated the best horse in Germany in 2016.

Bred by Dr. Christoph Berglar, he is inbred to the Wildenstein ”P” family and his fourth dam is their great champion Pawneese. whose dam Plencia (Le Haar) is also the fifth dam of Arc winner Peintre Celebre, Protectionist´s broodmare sire. Now owned by Australian Bloodstock, Protectionist has the highest fee of the five newcomers at 6,500 euros, but is arguably also the most interesting of the quintet and now stands at Gestüt Röttgen.