TICINO
Ticino was a German bred horse by Athanasius out of Terra. He did not travel because of WW2, but raced from the ages of 2yo to 5yo. He won 14 races including the German Derby, the Grosser Preis von Berlin three times, and the Grosser Preis von Baden Baden. He was so good it was proposed that a match race be conducted between him and the British Champion, Blue Peter.
He was bred at the Gestüt Erlenhof that was founded in 1901 by the District Councillor Ernst Ritter von Marx under the name Fohlenweide. In 1922, the industrialist Moritz James Oppenheimer
