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10 starts, 6 wins, SW, Champion Sire in GER 1946 & 1947. Won Deutsches Derby, Grosser Preis von Baden, Zukunfts Rennen, Grosser Preis von Berlin, Union-Rennen. Champion Sire in Germany 1946-47. DE 306/06/00056/30 Züchter/breeder: Hauptgestüt Graditz near Torgau, Saxony, Germany. Relocated to Pressel/Winkelmühle, near Laußig/Nordsachsen;(estates of Dr. Dr. Günther Gereke/*1893-1970, also horse breeder) in April 1945 with mare stock of Graditz and sire TRICAMERON.
Dr. Dr. Gereke said in his book "Ich war königlich-preussischer Landrat" (1970, Union Verlag, Berlin): ALCHIMIST had to be shot because he was severely injured by marauding Russian soldiers while being loaded onto a truck that he didn't want to get on. He met an inglorious end in the goulash cannon...(big cooking pot of army).
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