Baden Baden – Sales & Racing
The result
The story of El Sur-Racing
It all started with a weekend planned for the Baden “Sales & Racing” festival in April 2019. Jochen, who has had a passion for galloping since “Rivals of the Racecourse” (TV series that ran on ZDF in the 1980s) as well as all other equestrian disciplines, just came from the day of the racing stables in Munich, where he had visited the stable of Michael Figge and wanted to bring Simone closer to this passion. The hotel, wellness package and VIP cards were booked and the project could begin.
After we had been thinking about a concept for our Sachsenburg (see Stud) for months, the idea of our own whole blood breeding crystallized more and more. Finally, the passion of polo could also be combined with the professional commercial goals of horse breeding. It is not unusual for gallopers to find a second profession in polo after the end of their career.
However, since the conversion of the Sachsenburg will still take some time, the idea was born with two yearlings, who are still to prove themselves in sport, to lay the basis for their own breeding program.
With some expert tips from the future trainer, Michael Figge and internet research (e.g. Turf-Times), the auction catalogue was pored over for evenings, in the end the longlist was 35 yearling mares. Jochen already traveled to Baden-Baden on Thursday to inspect all horses. We then discussed the shortlist again with Michael Figge.
It started on Friday and an exciting auction day awaited us. Anyone who has ever raised their hands at an auction and knows the adrenaline rush will be able to understand it, it was a glittering experience. Since the price level remained below what we expected, there were four horses. A lot has changed since then, the training list has grown and we have already restructured.
El Sur Racing Team
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El Sur Broodmares
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Our trainers
Current videos on the training work of our starlets
The fathers of New Starlet and Tanami Starlet
Best Solution, Father of our future Tanami Starlet at the Lünzen stud farm, which is currently also the home of our two new additions. And here we are Harzand, the father of our New Starlet:
Two who are now friends
After the auction, it's time to relax and be a horse at the Lünzen stud farm. Here the two ladies are carefully prepared for the upcoming tasks in the racing team. [video width="848" height="480"...
Jochen is part of the new Executive Board
Jochen is part of the new board of the "Owners' Association for Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing".SportWelt reports in detail: https://elsur-racing.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/SportWelt300822_BVVorstand.pdf...
Sporting review of our big week
The absolute highlight on Wednesday of last week was La Estrellita, who is back in top form and is second in the list race over 1800m in a strong field. In the end, she had nothing to oppose the winner, but she defended her position in 2nd place with a 3/4 length...
Queen of Starlets with remarkable performance
Our first starter in the big race week performs remarkably as a 3-year-old against older ones and secures the fifth place fee. In the future, Queen of Starlets will be trained for us by Gerald Geisler in Iffezheim and will mainly start in France. Here is the exciting...
First “Pinhooking” success
First "Pinhooking" success for our racing organization Salon Starlet (Saxon Warrior x Saloon Sold), half-sister of Sammarco, was sold to France at BBAG's online auction last Friday. Galopponline...