Va Bank (foaled March 10, 2012)[1] is a thoroughbred racing horse who won the 2015 Polish "triple crown".
[citation needed] He belonged to the first offspring of Archipenko and was the first foal of Vinales.
[citation needed] Before the debut of Va Bank, jockey Wiaczesław Szymczuk in an interview after his 1,000th victory, when asked on which horse he would win his 1001th win, replied that it would be Va Bank.
[2] Va Bank made his debut on August 23 in the maiden race under Marek Brezina.
He won under Wiaczesław Szymczuk, gaining an advantage of 1 1/2 lengths over the favorite Zabava.
[4] He started the season with a 2 1/4 length win in Nagroda Strzegomia under the leadership of Marek Brezina.
He was supposed to take part in Nagroda Iwna, but suffered a minor injury and was withdrawn.
Experts blamed the stallion's failure on too short a period between the victory in Germany and the start in Nagroda Wielka Warszawska, and the tactically bad driving of Marek Brezina.
Maciej Janikowski commented: "The course of the competition itself, from my perspective, left much to be desired, but after the race everyone is smart.
In my opinion, Va Bank was not the same horse as in previous starts, because if he was, he would have managed, even though the race was not the best for him.
Perhaps his body did not have time to fully regenerate after the effort associated with the victorious race in Baden-Baden and the several-hour return journey.
After several days he returned to normal condition and training work, but it is possible that the last three weeks were not enough for him to fully recover mentally and physically".
[2] Va Bank started training Andreas Wohler in Germany.
[2] After recovering, he returned to the track finishing second in the Badener Meile G2 under B. Murzabayev, 1 1/2 lengths behind Stormy Antarctic.
On October 3, he won the Preis der Deutschen by 5 lengths beating Iquitos.