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Arc-winning connections: left Newsells Park’s Dr Andreas Jacobs and his wife Natalie, and, right, Dietrich von Boetticher and his wife Annabel
Ravensberg and was the second foal of the top race-mare Wurftaube, who had marked a revival of Ravensberg’s fortunes with a six-win sequence as a three-year-old which saw the daughter of Acatenango named Germany’s champion three-year-old filly in 1996.
Wurftaube broke her maiden on her second start over 1m2f in May and then went on to win five more, including Group races in Hamburg and Baden-Baden and ending her three-year-old season by winning the Group 2 German St Leger by 11l.
She returned at four to win another Group 2 and finish second to the Clive Brittain-trained Luso in the Group 1 WGZ Bank Deutschlandpreis, but was not quite as good as she had been at three.
Waldmark, who comes from the third crop of Mark Of Esteem, was sent into training with Sir Michael Stoute.
“She was a good filly,” Coffey says. “She won her only start at two and then we ran
her in the Oaks at Epsom, but she didn’t stay. Waldmark had a lot of speed and she should have won the Falmouth Stakes in Newmarket, which was a Group 2 in those days, but got a poor ride and finished second.”
As she was the owner’s favourite mare it
“Waldmark had
a lot of speed and she should have won the Falmouth Stakes in Newmarket
was not surprising that she went twice to visit Sadler’s Wells in her first three seasons producing two ordinary colts and in between a filly by Peintre Celebre.
“The first Sadler’s Wells colt was a yearling when I arrived at Newsells,” says general manager Julian Dollar. “He was big and slow and looked like a dinosaur!
“The Peintre Celebre filly was on the small side, but she was athletic and we sold her well in Deauville; the boss was talking about buying her back, which I wasn’t sure was the best policy, but she went for €210,000.”
Waldmark’s next two foals were a colt
by Montjeu (Masked Marvel) and a filly by Monsun (Waldlerche), both sold at Deauville.
The Arc winner as a foal at Newsells Park Stud
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