Tiger has his day

Sommertag impresses in the G3 Heel Trophy

Sommertag added a Group Three victory to his Listed success and Group places as a three-year-old when running out the game three-quarter length winner of the Heel Trophy at Baden-Baden on Saturday.

Owned and bred by Gestut Schlenderhan, the five year-old Tiger Hill entire is out of the Monsun mare Sommernacht and has a winning full-brother named Sommersturm. Sommernacht has a yearling colt from the first crop of Shamardal, who has already been named Sommerabend, and has since produced another full-brother to Sommertag, called Sinnerman.

Tiger Hill has been represented by nine other black type performers this season, including Abbashiva, Allanit, Young Tiger and the ill-fated Group Two winner Oriental Tiger, who died last week after fracturing his pelvis.