Boreal (horse)

Boreal
Sire	Java Gold
Grandsire	Key to the Mint
Dam	Britannia
Damsire	Tarim
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	19 April 1998
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Gestut Ammerland
Owner	Gestut Ammerland
Trainer	Peter Schiergen
Record	14: 3-3-3
Earnings	£611,664
Major wins
Deutsches Derby (2001) Coronation Cup (2002)

Boreal (foaled 19 April 1998) is a German Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from March 2001 until March 2003 he ran fourteen times in four different countries and won three races, two of them at Group One level. Unraced as a two-year-old, he won only one minor race in his first four starts before winning the Deutsches Derby. In the following year he was campaigned internationally and became the first German-trained horse in 27 years to record a Group One victory in the United Kingdom when he won the Coronation Cup. Apart from his successes he was placed in several major races including the Credit Suisse Pokal, Grosser Preis von Baden and Dubai Sheema Classic. He was retired from racing to become a breeding stallion but had very little success as a sire of winners.

Boreal was a chestnut horse with a white star and three white socks bred in Germany by Gestut Ammerland. He was sired by the American stallion Java Gold whose winss included the Travers Stakes, Marlboro Cup and Whitney Handicap in 1987. He stood as a breeding stallion in the United States where he sired the outstanding sprinter Kona Gold before being exported to Germany. Boreal's dam Britannia was one of the best staying fillies of her generation in Germany winning the Deutsches St Leger in 1988 and the Oleander Rennen in 1989. Her other foals included the outstanding racemare Borgia.

During his racing career, Boreal raced in the colours of Gestut Ammerland and was trained in Germany by Peter Schiergen. His owners had considered sending him to France to be trained by André Fabre but changed their minds as Schiergen "adored the colt and was very anxious to train him".

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