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10/04/2024, Top-Züchter 2023: Gestüt Görlsdorf

Großartiges Jahr für Görlsdorfer Deckhengst Sea The Moon mit Derby- und Dianasieg – Wonderful Boy die klassische Hoffnung für 2024.

26/03/2024, EBN: Fantastiv Moon grownde Horse of the year

25/03/2026, TDN: Horse of the Year Honours for Fantastic Moon

16/01/2024, Racing Post Premium: Sires of 2024 – SEA THE MOON

Sea The Moon's stock set to rise further after brilliant Classic double in 2023
In part five of our Sires of 2024 series, Aisling Crowe takes a look at the power of Lanwades' sire

When the conclusive story of Sea The Moon's career comes to be written, 2023 will surely take up quite some space in any tome because during the past 12 months the Lanwades Stud stallion scaled new heights on the track and in the sales ring.

05/07/2023, Sea The Moon and Stauffenbergs combine in dazzling Deutsches Derby winner

Sea The Moon was simply sensational when scoring by 11 lengths in the Deutsches Derby of 2014, and he has been strongly supported by Germany’s leading breeders in his stallion career at Lanwades Stud in Newmarket, but he kept hitting the crossbar in the Hamburg Classic with his first four crops of three-year-olds.

03/02/2023, EBF Stallion Focus

With the success of champions Dubawi and Frankel in recent years, as well as the focus on first-season sires, one sire whose accomplishments have gone under the radar somewhat is Sea The Moon.

26/03/2021, Turf-Times: Mating Plans of Görlsdorf 2021

Here is Görlsdorf 2021 in the German Breeding Bible

03/09/2020, EBN: Gestüt Görlsdorf’s best season ever

David Conolly-Smith speaks to Heike Bischoff-Lafrentz and Niko Lafrentz of Gestüt Görlsdorf ahead of tomorrow’s BBAG September Yearling Sale.

01/07/2020, Racing Post: Sea The Moon keeping exclusive company among top sires by RPR ratios

Lanwades Stud resident has supplied 48 per cent runners rated 80 or higher ...

22/05/2020, Turf-Times: Gestüt Görlsdorf

Turf-Times in der Ausgabe 619 vom 21.05.2020 mit dem Deckkplan Gestüt Görlsdorf zum Download ...

20/05/2020, BREEDING INSIGHTS: A passion for breeding

Leo Powell takes at look at both group winners in Cologne last week, each bred at Gestüt Görlsdorf

27/04/2020, Sport-Welt: Die Top-Züchter 2019

Das „who is who“ vertraut Sea The Moon ...

15/10/2018, EBN: MOON LANDS GAME SUCCESS IN WINTERFAVORITEN

Lanwades Stud’s first season sire Sea The Moon gained a second Gr.3 winner from his first crop, following Quest The Moon’s Zukunfts Rennen win, when his son Noble Moon landed the 1600m Preis der Winterfavoriten at Cologne yesterday afternoon ...

28/09/2018, EBN: Sea The Moon achieves landmark

A first Stakes success is a landmark moment in the career of any young stallion, but particularly for a first-crop sire ...

02/09/2018, Sea The Moon records first Pattern winner as Quest strikes

Sea The Moon - the runaway German Derby winner who stands at Kirsten Rausing's Lanwades Stud in Newmarket - posted his first Pattern winner on Sunday as Quest The Moon landed the 7f Group 3 Wackenhut Mercedes-Benz-Preis Zukunftsrennen at Baden-Baden ...

03/06/2018, EBN: Sea The Moon off the mark

The 2014 Gr.1 Deutsches Derby victor Sea The Moon (Sea The Stars) celebrated his first victory as a sire yesterday when Must See The Doc scored a battling victory in the first division of the novice stakes at Doncaster for owner-breeders Paul and Clare Rooney ...

14/04/2018, EBN: First season Sire Focus - Sea The Moon

Having won his only race as a two-year-old, Sea The Moon was the emphatic 11-length winner of the Gr.1 Deutsches Derby at three, having collected a pair of Group races in the build-up ...

08/02/2018, TDN: Euro Value Sires

As an 11-length German Derby winner out of a Monsun (Ger) sister to three other German Classic winners, Sea The Moon mustered a Timeform rating of 127 in just five starts ...

05/10/2017, EBN: Sea The Moon reached a new record

Also hitting the 525,000gns mark, Sea The Moon reached a new record. Progeny by the eleven-length Gr.1 Deutsches Derbywinning son of Sea The Stars have proved popular at other yearling sales and it was Roger Varian that came out victorious for this Stauffenberg Bloodstock-consigned Lot 272 ...

05/09/2017, Sport-Welt: Sea The Moons stark gefragt

03/09/2017, EBN: BBAG over the Moon

For a long time during a day in which the lull in the middle seemed to last a very long time it seemed a €460,000 colt, Lot 49, from the first crop by Sea The Moon from Gestüt Görlsdorf, the stallion’s breeder, would top the sale. Tom Goff of Blandford Bloodstock, acting for Godolphin, outlasted several competitors, including Australian Justin Bahen, for the colt out of the winner Favorite (Montjeu), the dam of three winners ...

02/09/2017, TDN: Good Moon rising

The 11-length G1 Deutsches Derby victory of Sea The Moon is clearly still fresh in the memory of many in his native country, as the young Lanwades stallion was very much the toast of Baden-Baden, where 13 of his first-crop yearlings sold for an average of i97,769. Leading the bunch at € 460,000 was a colt from Gestut Gorlsdorf, the East German farm owned by Heike Bischoff and Niko Lafrentz, who bred and raced the son of Sea The Stars (IRE) ...

01/09/2017, Racing Post: €460,000 Sea The Moon colt leaves Bischoff in dreamland

Blandford Bloodstock signed for the lot offered by Gestüt Görlsdorf. Heike Bischoff's effervescent affection for Sea The Moon has been returned yet again by the first-crop stallion, who delivered a €460,000 yearling colt during the BBAG sale in Baden-Baden on Friday ...

07/08/2017, First “moon landings” at BBAG

It is three years after the event, but memories of the IDEE 145th Deutsches Derby have still not faded. The Görlsdorfbred colt Sea The Moon staggered the Hamburg crowd with the most impressive Derby victory in ages, winning by the record margin of eleven lengths. At Iffezheim his first crop yearlings are now being sold for the first time ...

13/04/2017, GaloppOnline: Görlsdorf - Alles auf den Mond

Auch in diesem seinem dritten Deckjahr unterstützt das Gestüt Görlsdorf ihren Derby-Sieger Sea The Moon mit 30 Stuten. Aus gutem Grund ...

16/01/2016, EBN: Sea The Moon set to cover high-class maiden mares

Gestut Gorlsdorf has announced some of the mares who are set to be covered by Lanwades Stud resident and Gr.1 Deutsches Derby winner Sea The Moon. The son of Sea The Stars’s first progeny have recently turned yearlings.

18/10/2016, BBAG is proud to present the first Moon landing

World premiere at the BBAG Autumn Sales Baden-Baden this Saturday: For the first time there will be a foal of SEA THE MOON in the ring - a filly out of Secrets (Anabaa) born on April, the 21th. The unnamed brown foal will be presented by Römerhof Stud under the catalogue number 247.

04/03/2016, EBN: Gorlsdorf launches Sea The Moon Foal Show

With 15 own foals by their homebred Gr.1 Derby hero Sea The Moon on the ground, Gestut Gorlsdorf was celebrating “Halftime of Moonlanding”, when Goldkaetzchen (Key Of Luck) gave birth to a bay filly foal on Wednesday evening.

20/02/2016, EBN: Sea The Moon foals head February arrivals at Lanwades

The foaling season at Lanwades Stud got underway with six new arrivals in January. First off the mark for the second year running was Sunset Shore (Oasis Dream), who produced a filly by Leroidesanimaux, following a colt by the sire last year.

05/02/2016, EBN: Full-Sister to Sea The Moon born at Gorlsdorf

Gestut Gorlsdorf has announced that their twelve-year-old mare Sanwa (Monsun) produced a filly foal at 18.53 on Wednesday evening

26/01/2016, EBN: Gorlsdorf foal given appropriate name of Baden Baden

Gestut Gorlsdorf have named their filly foal by Sea The Moon out of Berlin Berlin (Dubai Destination), born last week (19th January) at their north German stud, Baden Baden.

20/01/2016, GaloppOnline: Berlin Berlin is mother for the first time

The Gr.1 second and two times Listed winner Berlin Berlin became mother for the first time. At Görlsdorf Stud, owned by Heike Bischoff-Lafrentz and Niko Lafrentz, she foaled a filly by Sea The Moon on January, the 19th.

15/01/2016, EBN: A first moon on earth

The connections of Lanwades Stud and Gestüt Görlsdorf have announced that the first foal of its eleven-length Gr.1 Deutsches Derby winner Sea The Moon (Sea The Stars) has been born.

05/10/2015, EBN: An impressive CV

The Case for Sea The Moon, by Bill Oppenheim

08/08/2015, Sea The Moon Maiden Fillies Stakes

Premium advertising for Sea The Moon: To honor his first highly successful breeding season at Lanwades stud, today were held the Sea The Moon maiden fillies stakes.