Savabeel

Savabeel
Savabeel
Sire	Zabeel
Grandsire	Sir Tristram
Dam	Savannah Success
Damsire	Success Express
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	23 September 2001
Country	Australia
Colour	Brown
Breeder	Glenlogan Park & Graeme Rogerson
Owner	Graeme Rogerson, B Reid, M Whitby et al
Trainer	Graeme Rogerson
Record	14: 3-3-1
Major wins
	Spring Champion Stakes (2004); 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.

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] was trained by Graeme Rogerson, and ridden by Chris Munce in his most important wins.

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 Spring Champion Stakes and at Group One level.

Disappointingly, after an excellent run 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. He now stands at Waikato Stud on North Island, New Zealand as one of the primary stallions.^[3]

References

^ "Savabeel pedigree". Equineline.com. 2012-05-08. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
^ Joel Zander (2004-10-23). "Savabeel cruises to stunning Cox Plate win". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
^ "Savabeel". Waikato Stud. 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2012-10-15.

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