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Zafonic To Replace End Sweep
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12/07/2002 |
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Proven northern hemisphere sire Zafonic will replace the deceased End Sweep on the Arrowfield Stud stallion roster this spring.
The son of Gone West will stand by arrangement with Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Juddmonte Farms, the shuttle deal being struck at short notice following the untimely death of End Sweep in Japan on July 11.
Zafonic retired to Juddmonte Farms in Newmarket in 1994 as a record breaking winner of five races, including four group One events, from only seven starts.
He headed the International Classification for Two-Year-Olds in 1992 and headed the International Classification again as a three-year-old where he was the highest rated horse in the world of any age in 1993.
Zafonic’s unbeaten record at two saw him win the G1 Prix Morny, the G1 Prix Salamandre, where he beat Kingmambo, and the G1 Dewhurst Stakes by four lengths.
Timeform commented at the end of that season that Zafonic “looked in a different league to his rivals in the Dewhurst…the best winner of the race since El Gran Senor ten years before him.”
At three he won the G1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket in brilliant fashion, breaking a 45-year-old course record in defeating Barathea by 3 ½ lengths.
At stud Zafonic has produced a bevy of top class performers. From his first six crops have come 228 runners, 149 winners, 23 stakeswinners and in total of 53 stakes horses.
In the current racing season he has sired 28 winners, of which 10 have earned black type. They include the classic winner Dupont (German Guineas), the crack French sprinter Zipping and the Dubai Mile winner Pacino.
Zafonic is a grandson of Mr. Prospector out of the stakes winning mare Zaizafon and is a full brother to the promising sire Zamindar.
His dam is a half sister to the dam of the English Oaks winner Reams of Verse.
Zafonic will serve his debut season in Australia at $38,500 (inc. GST).
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