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Protectionist Retired to Stud

Tara Madgwick - Friday November 4
2014 Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist (Ger) will take up stallion duties at Gestut Rottgen in Germany for the 2017 breeding season at a fee of €6,500.

Protectionist - Lisa GrimmOriginally trained by Andreas Wohler, Protectionist won on his debut at Hannover before finishing second at the end of the his two-year-old campaign in a German Group II that was initerestingly won by this year's Melbourne Cup winner Almandin (Ger).

He ran twice at three, winning the Listed Derby Trial at Bremen, and developed into a leading performer at age of four posting victories in the Group II Hansa-Preis and the Group II Prix Kergorlay before beating Red Cadeaux to claim Melbourne Cup.

He raced on unsuccessfully in Australia with Kris Lees before returning to Wohler's care earlier this year to win three races including the Group I Grosser Preis von Berlin in August.

Like Almandin, he is a son of the late great champion German sire Monsun, whose other Melbourne Cup winning son Fiorente (IRE) stands at Sun Stud in Victoria at a fee of $17,600.

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