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16hh Zabeel – Savannah Success
by Success Express
2009 fee $20,000 +gst
From his first crop Savabeel is the
sire of three individual stakes winners
- Group 3 winner My Emotion
- VRC Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes
(Gr3), Listed winners Queen
Sabeel and Warrentherooster
along with Savsbelle,
placed third in the Group 1 VRC Oaks.
He is also the sire of winners King
Sabeel, Lady Selene,
Mother's Milk,
Fabulist, Lost In
Love, No Emotion
etc .
Savabeel defeated ten other Group
One winners in the 2004 W.S. Cox Plate,
becoming the second 3YO in 20 seasons
to win Australia’s WFA Championship
event.
A winner as a 2YO over 1000m and
Group One placed, Savabeel then defeated
the cream of his 3YO peers in the
Group One Spring Champion Stakes (2000m).
Confirming Savabeel’s versatility
were his close Group One seconds in
the CF Orr Stakes (1400m) to International
performer Elvestroem, and the VRC
Derby (2500m).
Ranked the Best Three Year Old Performer
of 05, Savabeel was the Highest IFHA
Rated 3YO in Australia in 04-05 (ahead
of Fastnet Rock, Charge Forward and
Alinghi) and was rated equal with
star 4YO Elvestroem.
Savabeel is heir apparent to Zabeel,
Australasia's premier sire, with 114
stakes winners to his credit –
37 at Group One level.
His dam Savannah Success, by Breeders’
Cup Juvenile winner Success Express,
was a stakes winner at two before
becoming a dual Group One classic
winner at three.
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