Queen Sabeel Ends NZB Season on a High
31 July 2009
Team Rogerson's Queen Sabeel powered home in the Listed Northland Breeders' Stakes today in Whangarei providing Karaka graduates with a final feature victory on the last day of the 2008/09 racing season.
The filly provided her promising young Group 1 Cox Plate winning sire Savabeel with his second stakes winner, which bodes well for the stallion whose oldest progeny are just about to turn three, an age which his progeny should come into their own.
Queen Sabeel (Savabeel x Vanessatheundressa, by Carnegie) joins Group 3 VRC Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes winner My Emotion as stakes winners while for the boys Warrentherooster managed second in the Listed ARC Champagne Stakes.
The win caps a top season for New Zealand Bloodstock juvenile winners with the likes of The Heckler (Lucky Owners) capturing the $1,000,000 Karaka Million and Group 1 Manawatu Sires Produce Stakes, Kaaptan (Kaapstad) winning the Group 1 ARC Diamond Stakes, Linky Dink (Keeper) scoring across the Tasman in the Group 1 TJ Smith Classic, and Mexican Rose (Volksraad) proving her toughness and versatility in the Singapore Juvenile Championship.
Queen Sabeel was a $70,000 purchase by Rogerson Bloodstock at the 2008 Karaka Select Sale from the draft of Dormello Stud. Graeme Rogerson knows the family well having trained the filly's dam Vanessatheundressa to three victories from 1400m - 2100m.
Dormello Stud will offer the sole mare in foal to Savabeel at Sunday's Winter Mixed Bloodstock Sale.
Lot 65 - Bay Mare - 1991 Astradane (IRE) (Danehill x Astra Adastra, by Mount Hagen)
� Astradane, a six-time city winner herself, is the dam of Group 3 Hawke's Bay Guineas winner Stardane (Soviet Star).
� Bred in Ireland, Astradane represents a truly international family with stakes winners from Ireland, England, France, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand all present.
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