Another clean sweep for WS

Waikato Stud’s powerhouse roster has again dominated the domestic stallion premierships
for the 2023/24 season.

Multiple champion Savabeel claimed the Centaine, Dewar and Grosvenor Awards while his
young associate sire Super Seth is the Champion First Season Sire and the late O’Reilly the
Champion Broodmare Sire.

The remarkable Savabeel landed his ninth Centaine Award for worldwide progeny earnings
and his ninth Dewar Award for combined Australian and New Zealand progeny earnings.

He has also won nine Grosvenor Awards as champion New Zealand-based sire.

The remarkable son of Zabeel’s progeny amassed over $23 million in prizemoney this
season, with 145 individual winners, producing 240 wins and 21 at Group or Listed level.

“We have said all of these wonderful things about Savabeel over the years, which is a hell of
a privilege, but the great thing is we can keep saying them,” Mark Chittick said.

Savabeel’s top representative at the elite level in 2023/24 was Orchestral, the dual Group 1
winner of the New Zealand Derby and Vinery Stud Stakes.

Waikato Stud also bred and raced both the G1 Kingsford Smith Cup winner I Wish I Win and
Skew Wiff, successful in the G1 Tarzino Trophy, while Savabeel’s daughter Atishu won the
G1 Mackinnon Stakes.

“Getting any Group 1 winner is an absolute thrill and Savabeel certainly gives you the
opportunity to be able to achieve that,” Chittick said.

“While seeing those Group 1 winners in our own colours is massive, when you see people
like the Greens who bred Orchestral and who have become involved in the breeding and
racing game in a huge way, that is incredibly satisfying as well.”

Dundeel’s Group 1-winning son Super Seth was represented by the Listed Waikato Equine
Veterinary Centre Stakes winner Super Photon and the multiple Group placegetter Poetic
Champion.

Savabeel’s predecessor as the leader of the Waikato Stud stallion roster, the late, great
O’Reilly also continues to be a huge influence on the New Zealand industry and won the
Champion Broodmare Sire for the sixth time.

O’Reilly had another superb season as a broodmare sire, headlined by his star
granddaughter Orchestral.