Seazun

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Seazun
Sire Zieten
Grandsire Danzig
DamSunset Cafe
DamsireRed Sunset
Sex Mare
Foaled29 April 1997 [1]
CountryIreland
Colour Bay
BreederLodge Park Stud
OwnerJohn Breslin
Katsumi Yoshida
Trainer Mick Channon
Record10: 2-2-0
Earnings£114,350
Major wins
Cheveley Park Stakes (1999)

Seazun (foaled 29 April 1997) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a racing career which lasted from April 1999 until September 2000 she won two of her ten races. As a two-year-old she was one of the best juvenile fillies of her generation, recording a victory over a strong field in the Cheveley Park Stakes after finishing second in the Sirenia Stakes. She failed to win in the following year but finished second in the Fred Darling Stakes and fourth in both the 1000 Guineas and the Irish 1,000 Guineas. Since her retirement from racing she has had some success as a dam of winners in Japan.

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Background

Seazun is a bay mare with no white markings [2] bred in Ireland by the County Kilkenny-based Lodge Park Stud. She was sired by the Middle Park Stakes winner Zieten out of the mare Sunset Cafe. Zieten was not a notable success as a stallion although he had an excellent first season [3] and has been described as "a good source of fast two-year-olds". [4] Sunset Cafe, also bred by Lodge Park, was a moderate racehorse who won one minor race at Downpatrick Racecourse in 1993, [5] but her dam, Cafe Au Lait was a half-sister to Hanina, who produced the 1000 Guineas winner Mrs McArdy. [6]

In October 1998 the still unnamed yearling filly was sent to the Tattersalls sales and was bought for 62,000 guineas by the bloodstock agent Charlie Gordon-Watson. [7] She entered the green and white colours of Scottish businessman John Breslin and was sent into training with Mick Channon at West Ilsley in Berkshire. [8]

Racing career

1999: two-year-old season

Seazun began her racing career by finishing sixth in a five furlong maiden race at Newmarket Racecourse on 14 April 1999. Two weeks later the filly started 7/2 joint favourite over five and a half furlongs at Brighton Racecourse. Ridden as on her debut by Richard Quinn she accelerated away from her thirteen rivals in the final furlong and won by two and a half lengths from Blue Velvet. [9]

Seazun was off the course for more than four months before returning in the Listed Sirenia Stakes over six furlongs at Kempton Park Racecourse on 8 September. Ridden by Steve Drowne, she finished well to take second place behind Primo Valentino, a colt who went on to win the Middle Park Stakes. Twenty days later, Quinn was back in the saddle when Seazun was one of fourteen fillies to contest the Group One Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket. The French-trained Moon Driver (winner of the Prix d'Arenberg) started favourite ahead of Elaflaak (St Hugh's Stakes), Torgau (Cherry Hinton Stakes) and Mall Queen (Prix Yacowlef), with Seazun next in the betting on 10/1. The other runners included Crimplene, Kalindi (Windsor Castle Stakes) and Jemima (Lowther Stakes). Seazun raced down the centre of the wide Newmarket straight as Torgau set the pace, before moving up to challenge approaching the final furlong. She overtook Torgau in the closing stages and won by a head, with a gap of two and a half lengths back to Crimplene in third place. [10] After the race Channon said "I was expecting a big run from [Breslin's] filly. She just needed the run last time" [11] and added "This filly is just quality. She has only had four runs now, we haven't been hard on her". [12]

2000: three-year-old season

On her three-year-old debut Seazun was partnered by Frankie Dettori when she contested the Nell Gwyn Stakes (a trial race for the 1000 Guineas) over seven furlongs at Newmarket. Before the race Channon admitted that the filly had been slower to reach full fitness than he had hoped. [13] After being hampered two furlongs out, she recovered to take second place, but was no match for Petrushka, who won by four lengths. On 7 May she started at odds of 10/1 in an 18-runner field for the 1000 Guineas and finished fourth behind Lahan, Princess Ellen and Petrushka. [14] In the Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh three weeks later she finished fourth of the fourteen runners behind Crimplene, Amethyst and Storm Dream. In the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot she suffered a broken blood vessel and finished eighth of the nine runners behind Crimplene. [15]

After a two-month break, Seazun returned in the Celebration Mile at Goodwood Racecourse in which she was matched against colts and older horses. Before the race she had been bought by the Japanese owner Katsumi Yoshida. Ridden by Craig Williams she finished fourth of the six runners behind Medicean, Observatory and Cape Town. On her final racecourse appearance, the filly finished seventh behind Danceabout in the Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket on 30 September,

Breeding record

Seazun was retired from racing to become a broodmare in Japan. To date (2015) she has produced at least ten foals and five winners:

Pedigree

Pedigree of Seazun (IRE), bay mare, 1997 [1]
Sire
Zieten (USA)
1990		 Danzig (USA)
1977		 Northern Dancer Nearctic
Natalma
Pas de NomAdmiral's Voyage
Petitioner
Blue Note(FR)
1985		 Habitat Sir Gaylord
Little Hut
BalsamiqueTourangeau
Bruyere
Dam
Sunset Cafe (IRE)
1990		Red Sunset (IRE)
1979		 Red God Nasrullah
Spring Run
Centre PieceTompion
Table Rose
Cafe Au Lait (GB)
1968		Espresso Acropolis
Babylon
Blue SashDjebe
Star of India (Family: 14-b) [6]

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