GETAWAY was one of the best horses in Europe over a mile and a half in 2009 and the champion older horse in Germany at that distance in that season. He was a truly international star, as he twice scored in Group 1 events in Germany, as well as winning four more group races in France and England and he was also second in one of Italy’s top Group 1 contests.

Getaway started his stud career at Grange Stud in Co Cork in 2011 and he soon proved that he has excellent fertility, as he has at least 174 foals from his first crop born in 2012. Some of those fetched high prices at the 2012 foal sales, with Ben Case paying €60,000 to Ballincurrig House Stud for their colt out of Thanks Noel.

Since then there have been more prices up to €50,000 for Getaway’s foals, while his yearlings have included a colt sold by Corduff Stud for 75,000 guineas, almost €100,000. At the 2014 Derby Sale, one of his sons was bought by Tim Vaughan for the second highest price for a two-year-old of €50,000.

Trained in France by André Fabre and steadily improving as a three-year-old, Getaway won four consecutive races that season, including the Listed Prix Michel Houyvet at Deauville and then the Group 3 Prix de Lutece over 15 furlongs at Longchamp, before ending that year with third in the Group 2 Prix Hubert de Chaudenay.

He returned with a win in the Group 2 Prix Kergorlay at Deauville, then was an unlucky second in the Group 3 Prix Gladiateur before being supplemented to the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, in which he ran a great race to finish fourth to Dylan Thomas, beaten only a short head for third, with Soldier Of Fortune and Authorized behind him.

Getaway scored twice in Group 2 events as a five-year-old, first the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket, which he won by over three lengths from Sixties Icon, and then the Grand Prix de Deauville, resulting in him being awarded the high figure of 127 in Timeform’s Racehorses of 2008.

That figure was repeated in the following season, when Getaway was officially the champion older horse in his native Germany after winning the Group 1 Deutschland Preis at Dusseldorf and then easily defeating Youmzain and that year’s German Derby hero Wiener Walzer in the Group 1 Grosser Preis von Baden. Getaway made just two more starts at seven years old and was a close second each time, including the Group 1 Gran Premio di Milano.

Monsun, the sire of Getaway, was a triple Group 1 winner who has been Germany’s champion sire several times and the sire of 20 individual Group 1 stars. His son Manduro was a European champion in 2007, winning the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot, while both Novellist and Shirocco won Group 1 races in four countries.

Another son, Samum, won the German Derby and was the leading sire in Germany, and Monsun is also the sire of Italian Derby star Gentlewave, as well as Oaks winners in France, Germany and Italy, also the Ascot Gold Cup heroine Estimate. This is one of the few remaining branches of the Blandford male line, tracing back through Monsun’s great-grandsire Tamerlane, who stood at Woodpark Stud in Co Meath in the 1960s. Monsun is also the sire of the new Coolmore NH stallion Ocovango.

Getaway’s dam Guernica is also the dam of his own-sister Guadalupe, a champion filly in Germany who won the Group 1 Oaks d’Italia in Milan and was second in the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks. Guernica is a half-sister by Unfuwain to the champion stayer Royal Rebel, twice victorious in the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup, while the champion Irish racemare Alexander Goldrun is also closely related.

GETAWAY (GER)

Race record: Champion older horse in Germany in 2009 (11-13f). Winner of 9 races and £700,818, at 3 to 6 years, from 12-15.5 furlongs, inc Grosser Preis von Baden, Baden-Baden, Gr.1, Deutschland Preis, Dusseldorf, Gr.1, Grand Prix de Deauville, Deauville, Gr.2, Jockey Club Stakes, Newmarket, Gr.2, Prix Kergorlay, Deauville, Gr.2, and Prix de Lutece, Longchamp, Gr.3; 2nd in Gran Premio di Milano, Milan, Gr.1, Rheinland Pokal, Cologne, Gr.1, Gerling Preis, Cologne, Gr.2, Hansa Preis, Hamburg, Gr.2, and Prix Gladiateur, Longchamp, Gr.3; 3rd in Prix Hubert de Chaudenay, Longchamp, Gr.2.

Stud record: Retired to stud in Ireland in 2011. His first foals are three-year-olds in 2015.

Stands at: Grange Stud, Fermoy, Co Cork. Enquiries to David Magnier or Albert Sherwood on 025 33006.

Email: info@grangestud.com

Web: www.coolmore.com.

Fee: €3,500.