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Well-related son of Savabeel gets off the mark at Echuca

Waikato Stud-based Savabeel (Zabeel) has enjoyed a lucrative few weeks and on Monday he sired another exciting prospect as his son Savagery (3 g ex Legless by O'Reilly) made a winning debut in Hygain Maiden Plate (1209m) at Echuca. 

Trained by Chris Waller, the gelding stayed on well to beat Johnny Thunder (Nostradamus) by three-quarters of a length, while Skywolf (Akeed Mofeed) was the distance away in third. 

Purchased by Paul Moroney for NZ$230,000 at the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale from the Milan Park draft, the gelding is out of winning O’Reilly (Last Tycoon) mare Legless, whose other winner Trolleyed (Savabeel) was purchased by Grampians Racing for $27,500 Inglis Digital October Sale earlier this month. 

Legless herself is a daughter of Group 2-placed mare Danex (Danasinga) and she is the dam of nine other winners including last season’s Matriarch Stakes (Gr 2, 2000m) and Group 3-winning pair Amexed (Pentire) and Miss Aotearoa (Per Incanto), while she is also the grandam of Listed scorer Saint Patrick’s Day (Excelebration). 

Further back this is the same family as 2016 Railway Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Ryan Mark (Thorn Park). 

Kilburnie Cattle Company purchased a brother to Savagery for $160,000 at this year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and Legless produced a filly by Little Avondale Stud-based Per Incanto (Street Cry) last season. The mare was covered by Savabeel’s barnmate Ocean Park (Thorn Park) this season. 

Savabeel sired two new stakes winners earlier in the month when Albarado took out the Caulfield Classic (Gr 3, 2000m), before his daughter Cornflower Blue landed the John Grigg Stakes (Gr 3, 1400m) and like Savagery the pair are both out O’Reilly mares. The cross has rendered 18 stakes winners headed by four Group 1 winners. 

Savabeel stands for a fee of NZ$100,000 (plus GST).