ZABEEL
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Bay 1986 16.2hh Sir Tristram - Lady Giselle (Nureyev)
Sire of 41 individual Group One winners Zabeel is one of an elite group of sires worldwide who have sired more than 100 individual stakes winners.
The sire of 2007 Melbourne Cup and 2009 GR 1 Turnbull Stakes winner, Efficient, Zabeel has now produced three Melbourne Cup winners, (Might and Power - 1997, Jezabeel - 1998)
Even more remarkable is his four Cox Plate winners (Maldivian - 2008, Savabeel - 2004, Might and Power - 1998 and Octagonal- 1992) and in acknowledgement of this achievement, in 2010 he has been awarded the Kingston Town Greatness Award by the Moonee Valley Racing Club in recognition of his "undeniable dominance as the WS Cox Plate's most influential sire throughout its 88 year history".
It is no wonder Zabeel sets the benchmark for all other living Australasian sires.
Twice Champion Australian Sire and four time Champion New Zealand Sire, he is the winner of the Dewar Award (combined Aust/NZ earnings) a record 14 times and in 2009/10 claimed the Centaine Award for the sire whose NZ-conceived progeny have accumulated the highest stakes earnings worldwide for the season
As a prolific sire of Derby, Oaks and Cup winners, Zabeel has also sired a champion Australian 2 yr old.
By champion stallion Sir Tristram by Sir Ivor his dam is Lady Giselle by Nureyev from Valderna by Val de Loir from Derna.
With his record of 41 individual Group One winners to date(26 April 2010), Zabeel is second only to his great sire, Sir Tristram for New Zealand based sires. At the time of his death in 1997 Sir Tristram had established a world record for the number of 45 individual Group One winners.
Left - 2007 VRC Melbourne Cup winner, Efficient (Zabeel-Defensive Play)
Zabeel himself raced 19 times for 7 wins, 1 second and 4 thirds. His wins include the Australian Guineas G1, Moonee Valley Stakes G2, MVRC Alister Clark Stakes G2 and the VRC Craigless Stakes G2.
Sir Tristram rates as one of Australasia's most influential sires ever. The mantle of Australasia's heir apparent to the champion stallion has appropriately passed to his son Zabeel.
