3 Nov 2013
It’s appropriate that the 100th Group winner should come during the Melbourne Spring Carnival.
It’s been a year of milestones for Zabeel.
Zabeel clocked up another extraordinary milestone recently when his daughter Zonza won the Group Three Snowhite Classic at Caulfield.
The result represented Zabeel’s 100th individual Group Prestige Race winner, adding to his remarkable record as a Champion Sire and Champion Broodmare Sire.
It’s appropriate that the 100th Group winner should come during the Melbourne Spring Carnival.
This period of the racing calendar has long seen Zabeel at his very best, having sired three Melbourne Cup winners and a record four W S Cox Plate winners.
It’s been a year of milestones for Zabeel.
Recently he chalked up his 1000th individual winner while in the role of a broodmare sire Zabeel was responsible for the dams of the first three runners home in the Group One Underwood Stakes; namely It’s a Dundeel, Atlantic Jewel and Dear Demi.
Zabeel facts-at-a-glance
SIRE
Sire of 1004 individual winners
100 Group Race winners
43 Group One winners
Progeny earnings of A$172.4m
BROODMARE SIRE
Damsire of 1157 individual winners
66 Group Race winners
22 Group One winners
Progeny earnings of A$127.1m