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German sire Lomitas dies at 22
Posted: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:43 AM
Prominent German sire Lomitas (GB) has been euthanized on humane grounds at age 22.
Walther Jacobs’ Gestut Fahrhof bred, raced, and stood Lomitas, the 1991 German Horse of the Year and sire of 52 stakes winners from 633 foals of racing age (8%).
Lomitas’ top runners from his German crops include Silvano (Ger), a homebred for Jacobs who won 2001 Arlington Million Stakes (G1), Singapore Cup (Sin-G1), and Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup (HK-G1), and U.S. graded stakes winners Sumitas (Ger) and Meridiana (Ger).
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum’s Darley acquired an interest in Lomitas, and after he topped the German sire list in 2001, he was moved to Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket. The Niniski stallion out of La Colorada, by Surumu, stood five seasons there and sired Shalanaya, who won the 2009 Qatar Petroleum Prix de l’Opera (Fr-G1) and finished second in the ’10 Prix Ganay (Fr-G1).
Lomitas returned to Gestut Fahrhof in 2007 and serviced small books the last two years because of declining fertility, according to Bloodstock World.
Lomitas won nine of his 12 starts in Germany, including three Group 1 triumphs. He raced in the US. in the care of Racing Hall of Fame trainers Ron McAnally and Charlie Whittingham at ages five and six, respectively, winning a 1993 Santa Anita Park allowance race on disqualification and finishing second in that year’s Shoemaker Handicap (G2) and third in the Bowling Green Handicap (G2).
