- Zafonic
Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Zafonic
caption =
sire = Gone West
grandsire =Mr. Prospector
dam = Zaizafon
damsire =The Minstrel
sex = Stallion
foaled = 1990
country =United States flagicon|USA
colour = Brown/Black
breeder =Juddmonte Farms
owner = Khalid Abdullah
trainer =Andre Fabre
record = 7: 5-1-0
earnings = $663,984
race =Prix Morny (1992)Prix de la Salamandre (1992)Dewhurst Stakes (1992)
2,000 Guineas (1993)
awards= European Champion Two-Yr-Old Colt (1992)
honours =
updated= February 5, 2007Zafonic (1990-2002) was a
Europe anThoroughbred racehorse bred inKentucky . Sired by Gone West, a grandson of Secretariat, and out of the dam Zaizafon, Zafonic's grandsire wasMr. Prospector and his damsire,The Minstrel . Owned and bred byKhalid Abdullah , the colt was conditioned by the French trainer,Andre Fabre .Racing at age two, Zafonic went undefeated, winning three
Group one races: thePrix Morny at Deauville and thePrix de la Salamandre at Longchamp inFrance . He then was shipped to theNewmarket Racecourse in theUnited Kingdom where he won theDewhurst Stakes . His 1992 performance earned him theCartier Racing Award as Europe's Champion Two-Year-Old Colt.At age three, Zafonic continued to perform strongly but came up second to Kingmambo in the
Prix Djebel in France. Sent back to Newmarket for the British Classic, the 2,000 Guineas, Zafonic won by 3½ lengths while breaking a 45-year-old course record. In theSussex Stakes , the colt burst ablood vessel and finished seventh.His racing career over, Zafonic was sent to his owner's Banstead Manor Stud near the village of
Cheveley inEast Cambridgeshire . He sired more than two dozen stakes winners includingXaar , the 1997 European 2-Year-Old Champion and winner of the Dewhurst Stakes and Prix de la Salamandre as well asCount Dubois who won the 2000Gran Criterium inItaly .In August 2002, Zafonic's owner leased him for the southern hemisphere covering season to
Arrowfield Stud inScone, New South Wales ,Australia . Only a few days after being released fromquarantine , Zafonic died on September 7, 2002 as the result of an accident at Arrowfield'spaddock .References
* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/zafonic Zafonic's pedigree and racing stats]
* [http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/breeding-news/2002/September/08/Juddmonte-stallion-Zafonic-dies-in-paddock-accident-in-Australia.aspx 2002 Thoroughbred Times article on the death of Zafonic]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.