• Group One winner by highly influential sire
• Out of a Classic-winning mare
• Full-brother to Group One winner In Swoop

Yorton Stud has given British breeding another shot in the arm with its acquisition of Ito, a Group One-winning son of leading sire Adlerflug.

Bred by Gestut Schlenderhan from that stud’s famous Our Ivanhowe family involving eight generations of black-type mares, Ito has been bought by Yorton in a deal engineered by bloodstock agent Richard Venn. David Futter of Yorton says: “We are very excited to have acquired Ito whose profile speaks for itself.

“He’s a Group One winner out of a mare, Iota, who won the Group One Preis Der Diana [German Oaks] and he’s a full-brother to In Swoop, the German Derby winner and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe runner-up. “Ito is a gorgeous-looking horse, standing 16.2hh and getting very good-looking stock, and his temperament is exactly what we look for in a stallion – to us that is as important as their race record. He won as a three-year-old, excelled at four and held his form at five. “The sad death of Adlerflug last year was a blow to breeders, but Ito provides a wonderful opportunity to get into that sire’s precious bloodline.” In 2015 Ito became Germany’s champion older horse following an easy win in the Gr.1 Grosser Preis Von Bayern and a close second, beaten three-quarters of a length, in the Gr.1 Grosser Preis Von Berlin. During his career he was also a Listed-race winner, twice successful in Gr.2 races and he gained a Timeform rating of 125. Initially retired to stud in his homeland, Ito’s oldest crop are now four-year-olds. At Yorton he will stand alongside Gentlewave (Monsun), Masterstroke (Monsun), Linda’s Lad (Sadler’s Wells), Pether’s Moon (Dylan Thomas) and Arrigo (Shirocco). His fee will be announced in the near future.

Picture: Marc Rühl

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Ito (GER)