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Lost due to complications following surgery. Cambridge Stud reported that their successful sire Tavistock has died at the age of 14.

Lost due to complications following surgery. Cambridge Stud reported that their successful sire Tavistock has died at the age of 14. 

The stud reported 8 weeks ago that the son of Montjeu had suffered a life-threatening injury in a freak paddock accident.

Although he made significant progress from the initial injury, he sustained secondary complications following further surgery last week and was put down on vets advice on Saturday. 

Cambridge Stud thanked their vet team of Dr Rob Hitchcock and Dr Alanna Zantingh of Cambridge Equine along with Dr Ric Redden from Kentucky for their extraordinary efforts to save him. Cambridge Stud also praised their staff saying that they had been nothing less than heroic in what has been an intensely difficult season for them.

To date, Tavistock has sired 19 stakes winners headed by Werther, and the Rosehill Guineas (Group 1) and Victoria Derby (Group 1) winner Tarzino. 

Bred by Bloomsbury Stud, Tavistock is out of the Quest For Fame mare Upstage. A NZ$85,000 purchase from the 2007 New Zealand Bloodstock Select Yearling Sale by trainer Andrew Campbell, Tavistock won 6 races included the Mudgway Stakes (Group 1) and Waikato Draught Sprint (Group 1) and also finished second in the Thorndon Mile (Group 1) and held that same position in the Blamey Stakes (Group 2). 

He was standing for a fee of NZ$50,000 (plus GST) in 2019 before his injury.