Potemkin is building up an enviable record and on Sunday 26 June he won his seventh career race from only ten starts when taking the G3 Grosser Preis der Wirtschaft. The five-year-old son of New Approach had ended his 2015 campaign with a G3 victory at Hoppegarten, and making a belated reappearance, he looks to have improved again with a very easy victory.
Bred by Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof, Potemkin is a son of the Stakes-placed mare Praia (Big Shuffle) and a half-brother to the German Stakes winner Paraisa.
Potemkin is the 11th Group horse to be sired by New Approach in 2016. Amongst his latest stars are the G2 Middleton Stakes heroine Beautiful Romance, the South African G1 performer New Predator and the G1 South Australian Derby second Etymology. He has also had a very good weekend after siring the first (Antiquarium) and third (Nearly Caught) in the £150,000 Northumberland Plate at Newcastle yesterday.
