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These
are just some of the Champions that the immortal
ZABEEL has produced.
Could this outstanding filly be the next?
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ZABEEL!
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Zabeel
Zabeel
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Zabeel
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Zabeel
Sir
Tristram / Lady Giselle
Zabeel
has appeared in the top 10 Australian Sires (by progeny
earnings) every season since 1996, heading the list
twice and has only been out of the top five in 2003.
Zabeel
has sired 37 individual Group 1 winners and 109 individual
stakes winners making him the greatest stallion to stand
at stud in New Zealand since his own great sire, Sir
Tristram. The most recent of those is the 2007 Melbourne
Cup winner, Efficient (Refused the Dance by Defensive
Play).
Zabeel
assumed the mantle of New Zealand's flagship stallion
from his own legendary sire, Sir Tristram, who died
in May 1997. That was just after Zabeel won the first
of his eleven Dewar Stallion Trophy awards (in 1995-96),
and just before he claimed his first general sire premierships
in Australia & New Zealand (1997-98). In all, Zabeel
has now won 17 Australasian sire premierships.
The
important role he's played in maintaining New Zealand's
profile in Australia during the past decade cannot be
over-stated. He's appeared in the top ten Australian
sires (by progeny earnings) every season since 1996,
heading the list twice, and has only once slipped out
of the top five, in 2003. Zabeel
has been alone among active New Zealand-based sires
in the latter group for all but two of those eleven
seasons. In 1996 he was joined by Norman Pentaquad,
sire of Doriemus, and a year later by Saintly’s
sire Sky Chase.
Zabeel's
stars in 2005-06 included World Series Champion VENGEANCE
OF RAIN in Hong Kong, dual Australian G1 winner RAILINGS,
VRC MacKinnon S. G1 winner LAD OF THE MANOR and ARC
Galaxy S. G1 winner BAZELLE. These horses helped Zabeel
to third place on the Australian general sires' list,
behind Redoute's Choice & Encosta De Lago; second
place on the Hong Kong sires’ list, behind Danehill;
while ZARIUS was his leading earner in New Zealand,
where he finished ninth on the general sires’
premiership.
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Excluding
his crop of just-turned two-year-olds, Zabeel has now
sired 104 stakeswinners (8.5%) from 1214 foals, a remarkable
figure across 12 crops. That total includes 37 Group One
winners, among them Australian Horses of the Year MIGHT
AND POWER (1998 & 1999), and OCTAGONAL (1996). His
New Zealand AEI figure for last season was better than
2.0, meaning that on average Zabeel’s
progeny earned more than twice the average available funds
per runner. Zabeel’s
status as a top ten sire in Australia is confirmed by
the ABR's recently introduced APEX ratings tables. He’s
fourth on the list by “A” rating with a figure
of 4.45, and seventh on the “ABC” rating list,
with 2.66. Not surprisingly, Zabeel
is beginning to make a mark as a broodmare sire, appearing
in fourth position on both the 2005-06 Australian and
New Zealand broodmare sires' lists, largely thanks to
AJC Derby G1 winner HEADTURNER and dual G1 DARCI BRAHMA.
They are among the 25 stakeswinners left to date by Zabeel’s
daughters. The final challenge for Zabeel,
now twenty years old, is to establish his own stallion
dynasty. This is taking longer than it might have, because
most of his best racing sons from his early crops were
geldings. (And what a line-up they were: Might And Power,
Sky Heights, Zonda, Hades, Dignity Dancer, Bezeal Bay,
Cronus and company).
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Fourth
living foal of
Western
Flame
(Zafonic / Samya's Flame)
Western
Flame
a lightly raced daughter of the international superstar
Zafonic. She was the winner
of 1 race and 2nd on 3 other occasions from only a handful
of starts in Great Britain.
Zafonic
(1990-2002) was a European Thoroughbred racehorse
bred in Kentucky. Sired by Gone West, a grandson of
Secretariat, and out of the dam Zaizafon, Zafonic's
grandsire was Mr. Prospector and his damsire, The Minstrel.
Owned and bred by Khalid Abdullah, the colt was conditioned
by the French trainer, Andre Fabre.
Racing
at age two, Zafonic went
undefeated, winning three Group one races: the Prix
Morny at Deauville and the Prix de la Salamandre at
Longchamp in France. He then was shipped to the Newmarket
Racecourse in the United Kingdom where he won the Dewhurst
Stakes. His 1992 performance earned him the Cartier
Racing Award as Europe's Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.
At
age three, Zafonic continued
to perform strongly but came up second in the Prix Djebel
in France. Sent back to Newmarket for the British Classic,
the Two Thousand Guineas, Zafonic won by 3½ lengths
while breaking a 45-year-old course record. In the Sussex
Stakes, the colt burst a blood vessel and finished seventh.
His
racing career over, Zafonic
was sent to his owner's Banstead Manor Stud near the
village of Cheveley in East Cambridgeshire. He sired
more than two dozen stakes winners including Xaar, the
1997 European 2-Year-Old Champion and winner of the
Dewhurst Stakes and Prix de la Salamandre as well as
Count Dubois who won the 2000 Gran Criterium in Italy.
In
August of 2002, Zafonic's
owner leased him for the southern hemisphere covering
season to Arrowfield Stud in Scone, New South Wales,
Australia. Only a few days after being released from
quarantine, Zafonic died
on September 7, 2002 as the result of an accident at
Arrowfield's paddock.
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Zabeel
/ Western Flame 2006 Bay Filly
Efficient winner of the 2007 Melbourne Cup
(Zabeel / Refused the Dance) |
Western
Flame
is impeccably bred and is closely related to some of the
world's finest thoroughbreds including-
Northern
Spur:
Champion turf colt in the USA and successful sire.
Marju: Group
1 winner in England and also a successful sire.
Flame of Tara: 2 time Group2
winner and mother of Irish champion Salsabil,
a 5 time Group1 winner.
Second Empire: Group
1 winner and successful sire.
Western
Flame
is also closely related to Song
of Tara, Hemingway
and Ihtiram the sire of world
class sprinter Miss Andretti.
The
Zabeel-Mr Prospector cross
has also produced champion horses in Australia-
Efficient, Lad
of the Manor, Lonhro,
Niello just to name a few.
To
say this filly is well bred is an understatement. She
will hold enormous value in the breeding barn when she
finishes her racing. In fact Zabeel
mares are extremely sort after.
We
will be targeting all the classic races with this filly
including The Oaks and all
the Cups races.
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This
outstanding filly will be trained by one of Australia's
leading trainers Clarry Conners.
Clarry
Conners is not your typical horse trainer. He has been
around the thoroughbred all his life, enjoying one of
most colourful upbringings in racing alongside his father,
Clarry senior.
The two Clarry's traveled NSW from racing centre to racing
centre, which for the teenager Clarry junior, was a wonderful
education for when he did finally branch solo.
And as a stand-alone trainer, Clarry made an instant impression
on the fickle industry and always had a stand-out horse
in the stable.
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Of
course, Victory Lodge, named after Clarry's complex, was
his first taste of Group 1 success, winning the 1984 AJC
Sires Produce Stakes - beating the great Red Anchor.
A
host of the elite Group races have followed, including
the training of two Racehorse of the Year- the champion
filly Research and the champion two-year-old Tierce, Ironically,
sired by Victory Prince.
Research
did the impossible - beating the colts in the 1989 AJC
Derby then backing up four days later to win the AJC Oaks.
Tierce
and Burst won Sydney racing's two-year-old grand slam
- 1989 STC Golden Slipper Stakes then the AJC double of
the Sires Produce and Champagne Stakes in successive years,
an amazing training feat.
Not
to mention Clarry's four Golden Slipper successes - Burst,
Tierce, Prowl and Belle de Jour.
So
Clarry's record says it all, but where he differs from
most Sydney stables, is that a racing a horse with Clarry
is an experience with a difference.
Clarry's
wife Maree is the stable manager and alongside her husband
every day to ensure the communication to owners is second-to-nine.
And
you need not worry about your horse's welfare. Clarry
and Maree live on site so your horse has the trainer's
attention 24/7.
No
wonder Victory Lodge is such a successful establishment.
This
outstanding filly will be paid up for the
2009
$3million Golden Slipper and Golden Rose.
2009
$1million Blue Diamond stakes.
As
a 3YO and over we will be targeting all the Classic and
Cups Races.
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