Shirocco (foaled 10 April 2001) is a German
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are ...
racehorse. He was trained in his native Germany by
Andreas Schütz
Andreas Schütz (born 19 February 1968) is a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. From a prominent racing family, he is the fourth generation to train professionally.
Andreas Schütz started out as an amateur jockey, winning four German championship ...
up to the end of his three-year-old season before moving to French trainer
André Fabre
André Fabre (born 9 December 1945) is a French thoroughbred horse racing trainer.
The son of a diplomat, Fabre graduated from university with a law degree but then decided to pursue a career in thoroughbred horse racing. He began by working in ...
to race as a four and five year old.
Background
Shirocco was sired by
Monsun
Monsun (4 March 1990 – 9 September 2012) was a bay (horse), bay Thoroughbred horse, racehorse and stallion bred in Germany by Gestüt Isarland and owned by Georg von Ullmann, Baron Georg von Ullmann.
Background
Monsun was a son of Germany's f ...
, a German racehorse and leading sire.
[ His dam was ]The Minstrel
The Minstrel (11 March 1974 – 3 September 1990) was a Canadian-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Bred in Ontario, he was sold as a yearling and exported to Europe, where he was campaigned in Ireland and the United Kin ...
mare So Sedulous who won two races when trained in England by Geoff Wragg
Geoff Wragg (9 January 1930 – 15 September 2017) was a Thoroughbred horse trainer who trained champion horses such as Teenoso and Pentire. He was the son of former jockey and trainer Harry Wragg, from whom he took over the licence at Abington P ...
. She was also the dam of Subiaco (winner of the Group 2 Gerling-Preis
The Gerling-Preis is a Group 2 flat horse race in Germany open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run over a distance of 2,400 metres (about 1½ miles) at Cologne in late April or early May.
History
The event was est ...
) and stakes winners Satchmo, Storm Trooper and September Storm.
Racing career
Shirocco is best known for winning the Breeders' Cup Turf in 2005. He also won the 2004 Deutsches Derby
The Deutsches Derby is a Group 1 flat horse race in Germany open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Hamburg-Horn over a distance of 2,400 metres (about 1½ miles), and it is scheduled to ...
. Overall, he won 6 major group races in 5 countries.
Awards
In 2005 Shirocco was named German Horse of the Year.
Stud record
In October 2006 he was purchased by Darley Stud
Darley Stud is located at Dalham Hall, the global breeding operation owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the Ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates. It is on the outskirts of Newmarket, Suffolk, the interna ...
and retired to Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, England
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.[ In seven seasons on the Darley stallion roster he sired ]Brown Panther
Brown Panther (3 March 2008 – 13 September 2015) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. During a racing career which lasted from November 2010 until September 2014 he won eleven of his twenty-eight races and competed in seven countries, name ...
(winner of the Group 1 Irish St. Leger), Windstoss (winner of the Group 1 Deutsches Derby
The Deutsches Derby is a Group 1 flat horse race in Germany open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Hamburg-Horn over a distance of 2,400 metres (about 1½ miles), and it is scheduled to ...
) and Group 2 winners Arrigo, Grand Vent and Wild Coco. Before the start of the 2014 breeding season he was sold to Glenview Stud in Fermoy
Fermoy () is a town on the River Blackwater in east County Cork, Ireland. As of the 2016 census, the town and environs had a population of approximately 6,500 people. It is located in the barony of Condons and Clangibbon, and is in the Dá ...
, County Cork
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, Ireland to stand as a National Hunt stallion. In 2016 his daughter Annie Power
Annie Power (foaled 20 March 2008) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse. A National Hunt horse specialising in hurdle racing, she won fifteen of her seventeen races including the Johnstown Novice Hurdle, Irish Stallion Farms EBF Mares Novice H ...
won the Champion Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival
The Cheltenham Festival is a horse racing-based meeting in the National Hunt racing calendar in the United Kingdom, with race prize money second only to the Grand National. The four-day festival takes place annually in March at Cheltenham Ra ...
.
Pedigree
References
2001 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Germany
Racehorses trained in Germany
Racehorses trained in France
German Thoroughbred Horse of the Year
Breeders' Cup Turf winners
Thoroughbred family 2-e
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