Champion stallion Zabeel died aged 29 at Cambridge Stud on Friday night.
Zabeel had a phenomenal record, producing 44 group 1 winners with one of his sons or daughters taking a race at the highest level every year from 1995, when Octagonal won the AJC Sires' Produce Stakes, to Preferment's win in last year's Victoria Derby.
His progeny have won three Melbourne Cups, three Caulfield Cups and four Cox Plates. His champions include Octagonal, Might And Power and the unbeaten Reset.
Zabeel dominated stallions awards; he was twice champion Australian sire, four-time champion New Zealand sire and won the NZ Dewar Trophy for combined NZ and Australian earnings 15 times. He was also Australia and New Zealand's champion broodmare sire three times each.
Breeder Sir Patrick Hogan issued a statement about the champion, which will be buried next to his father Sir Tristram at the entrance of Cambridge Stud.
