Zabeel Wins Centaine Award

Tuesday, 03 August 2010 04:30

Champion New Zealand sire Zabeel has earned yet another honour after being announced the winner of the Centaine Award for the past season.

Established in 2008-09 when it was won by O'Reilly, the award is based on the sire whose NZ-conceived progeny have accumulated the highest stakes earnings worldwide for the season.

Zabeel took the award with the accumulation of $NZ10,161,878 in worldwide progeny earnings for the season.

Such a tally ultimately afforded a $NZ76,337 buffer over Waikato Stud's O'Reilly.

Sir Patrick Hogan, proprietor of Cambridge Stud which stands Zabeel, said he was delighted the 24-year-old had been recognised.

"Zabeel's shareholders and I are delighted that his name will be on The Centaine Award," Sir Patrick told NZ Thoroughbred Marketing.

"He does not have a lot of time left and he deserves to be on the award, through the sheer fact that he has been distinguished on so many other awards in Australia and New Zealand."

Zabeel has produced 41 individual Group One winners in Australasia, four short of his own sire Sir Tristram's southern hemisphere record.