Savabeel

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Savabeel
Sire Zabeel
Grandsire Sir Tristram
DamSavannah Success
Damsire Success Express
Sex Stallion
Foaled23 September 2001
Country Australia
Colour Brown
Breeder Glenlogan Park
Owner Graeme Rogerson, B Reid, M Whitby et al
TrainerGraeme Rogerson
Record14: 3-3-1
Major wins
Spring Champion Stakes (2004)
W. S. Cox Plate (2004)

Savabeel is a retired Australian Thoroughbred race horse and active sire. He is best known for his win in the 2004 Cox Plate. He was trained by Graeme Rogerson, and ridden by Chris Munce in his most important wins.

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Breeding

Savabeel, foaled on 23 September 2001, is a brown horse sired by champion New Zealand sire Zabeel out of the multiple Group 1 winner Savannah Success. [1]

Racing career

In Spring 2004 he won the race considered the Weight for Age Championship of Australasia, the Cox Plate, beating the previous year's winner Fields of Omagh. He was the first three-year-old to win the race since another son of Zabeel, Octagonal won the race nine years earlier in 1995. At the time of Savabeel's Cox Plate win, Rogerson described him as the best horse he had ever trained. [2]

Savabeel also won the Group One 2004 Spring Champion Stakes over 2000m at Randwick.

After an excellent run for second behind Elvstroem in the C F Orr Stakes in February 2005, Savabeel had an unsuccessful autumn campaign which saw him only place once and was retired to stud in 2005.

All in all, he retired the winner of $2,760,460 in stakes. Savabeel started on 14 occasions, winning 3 and placing on 4 occasions.

Stud career

Savabeel stands at Waikato Stud in the North Island of New Zealand, as one of the primary stallions. [3]

Savabeel made a clean sweep of New Zealand's three stallion categories for the 2016–17 season. For the second straight year the stallion won the Grosvenor Award for New Zealand stakes earnings, the Dewar Stallion Trophy for Australasian earnings and the Centaine Award for global earnings. [4]

Notable stock

Savabeel has sired 32 individual Group One winners:

'c = colt, f = filly , g = gelding

FoaledNameSexDamDam sireMajor wins
2007Scarlett Lady [5] fOn Call (NZ)Ironclad (NZ) Queensland Oaks
New Zealand Stakes
2008Brambles [6] gPrickle (NZ)Pins (Aus) Queensland Derby
2008Diademe [7] fBling (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes
2008Sangster [8] gQuinta Special (Ire)Spectrum (Ire) Victoria Derby
International Stakes
Auckland Cup
2009Costume [9] fDisguised (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) Herbie Dyke Stakes
Livamol Classic
2009Soriano [10] fCall Me Lily (NZ)Just A Dancer (NZ) Zabeel Classic
Herbie Dyke Stakes
2010 Kawi [11] gMagic Time (NZ) Volksraad (GB) Challenge Stakes (x2)
Zabeel Classic
Thorndon Mile
Horlicks Plate
Haunui Farm Classic
Captain Cook Stakes
2010Lucia Valentina [12] fStaryn Glenn (NZ) Montjeu (Ire) Vinery Stud Stakes
Turnbull Stakes
Queen Elizabeth Stakes
2011Savaria [13] fAmathea (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) New Zealand Oaks
2011Shillelagh [14] fTrocair (Aus)Flying Spur (Aus) Kennedy Mile
Empire Rose Stakes
2011Sound Proposition [15] gEbony Babe (NZ)Ebony Grosve (NZ) Easter Handicap
2012Pasadena GirlfNina From Pasadena Redoute's Choice Champagne Stakes
2013Hall Of FamecAround The Clock (AUS)Galileo (Ire) Levin Classic
2015NicolettafCeltic Crown (US)Doneraile Court (US) New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes
2014EmbellishcBling (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) New Zealand 2000 Guineas
2014HasahalofHalloween Encosta De Lago New Zealand 1000 Guineas
2014Savvy CoupfEudora (NZ)Pins (Aus) New Zealand Oaks
Livamol Classic
2015Prise de FergFoil (AUS)Snippets (AUS) Captain Cook Stakes
2015Savy Yong BlonkfAmpin (NZ)Pins (Aus) Livamol Classic
2015Sword Of OsmancBunyah (Ire)Distant View (US) Sistema Stakes
2015The Chosen OnecGlitzy One (Aus)Flying Spur (Aus) Thorndon Mile
2016 Probabeel fFar Fetched (NZ)Pins (Aus) Surround Stakes
Epsom Handicap
Futurity Stakes
Caulfield Stakes
2017AmarelinhafHopscotch (NZ)Bahroona (US) New Zealand Oaks
2017AtishufPosy (NZ)No Excuse Needed (GB) Queen of the Turf Stakes
Champions Stakes
Empire Rose Stakes
2017Cool Aza BeelcCool ‘N’ SassyTesta Rossa (AUS) Sistema Stakes
2017 Mo'unga cChandelier (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) Rosehill Guineas
Winx Stakes
2018I Wish I WingMake A Wish (NZ)Pins (AUS) TJ Smith Stakes
2018NoverrecMagic Dancer Rip Van Winkle (IRE) New Zealand 2000 Guineas
2018The Perfect PinkfThe Solitaire O'Reilly (NZ) New Zealand 1000 Guineas
2019Major BeelgGram (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) Australian Derby
2020OrchestralfSymphonic (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) New Zealand Derby, Vinery Stud Stakes
2021SavagleecGlee (NZ) O'Reilly (NZ) New Zealand 2000 Guineas

Pedigree

Pedigree of Savabeel (AUS) 2001 [16]
Sire
Zabeel (NZ)
1986
Sir Tristram (IRE)
1971
Sir Ivor Sir Gaylord
Attica
Isolt Round Table
All My Eye
Lady Giselle (FR)
1982
Nureyev Northern Dancer
Special
Valderna Val de Loir
Derna
Dam
Savannah Success (AUS)
1995
Success Express (USA)
1985
Hold Your Peace Speak John
Blue Moon
Au PrintempsDancing Champ
Lorgnette
Alma Mater (AUS)
1988
Semipalatinsk Nodouble
School Board
SweetieWithout Fear
Virginia

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