| Octagonal |
Upload / Commons Upload | | Sire: | Zabeel | | Grandsire: | Sir Tristram | | Dam: | Eight Carat | | Damsire: | Pieces of Eight | | Sex: | Stallion | | Foaled: | 1992 | | Country: | New Zealand
 | | Colour: | Brown | | Breeder: | Patrick & Justine Hogan | | Owner: | Jack & Bob Ingham | | Trainer: | John Hawkes | | Record: | 28: 14-7-1 | | Earnings: | $A5,892,231. | | Major Racing Wins & Honours & Awards | | Major Racing Wins | AJC Sires Produce Stakes (1995)
W S Cox Plate (1995)
Canterbury Guineas (1996)
Rosehill Guineas (1996)
Australian Derby (1996)
Mercedes Classic (1996, 1997)
Underwood Stakes (1996)
Australian Cup (1997)
Chipping Norton Stakes (1997) | | Racing Awards | Australian Champion Two Year Old (1995)
Australian Champion Three Year Old (1996)
Australian Horse of the Year (1996) | | Infobox last updated on: October 24, 2007. Image File history File links Photo_needed. ...
Zabeel was a notable Australian thoroughbred racehorse and now champion sire. ...
Sir Tristram (IRE) is a thoroughbred horse and the sire of Champion racehorses in Australia and New Zealand. ...
Eight Carat ((bl. ...
A stallion A stallion is a male horse that has not been castrated. ...
Image File history File links Flag_of_New_Zealand. ...
A blood bay horse. ...
John Horace Ingham (June 10, 1928 - August 5, 2003) was a leading Australian businessman and co-founder of the largest Thoroughbred horse racing and breeding operation in Australia. ...
ISO 4217 Code AUD User(s) Australia, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island Inflation 2. ...
The AJC Sires Produce Stakes is a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred horse race for 2 year olds at set weights run over a distance of 1400 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney in April. ...
The W.S. Cox Plate is a thoroughbred horse race held annually in late October by the Moonee Valley Racing Club in honour of W.S. Cox, the clubs founder. ...
The Canterbury Guineas was a thoroughbred horse race held over 1900 metres at set weights for 3 year old horses. ...
The Rosehill Guineas is a Group 1 thoroughbred horse race for three year olds at set weights held over 2000 metres. ...
The Australian Derby is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run by the Australian Jockey Club (AJC) at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia. ...
The BMW is a major Group 1 horse race worth 2 million dollars, held over 2400m (a mile and a half). ...
The Underwood Stakes is a Group 1 horse race, held at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne Australia. ...
The Australian Cup is a Weight for Age horse race for thoroughbred racehoreses run over 2000 metres, at Flemington Racecourse Melbourne Australia in March. ...
The Chipping Norton Stakes is a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred horse race at Weight for Age run over a distance of 1600 metres at Warwick Farm Racecourse, Sydney in March. ...
The Australian Champion Two Year Old is awarded annually to the two year old horse whose performances in Australia are deemed to be the most impressive throughout each racing season. ...
The Australian Champion Three Year Old is awarded annually to the three year old horse whose performances in Australia are deemed to be the most impressive throughout the racing season. ...
The Australian Horse of the Year is based on a vote of racing experts. ...
| Octagonal (foaled 1992 in New Zealand) is a retired champion Thoroughbred racehorse, affectionately called the big O or 'Occy'. He was sired by Zabeel, out of the broodmare Eight Carat, a descendant of Man o' War who was ranked No. 1 on the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century. For the processor with the same codename , see Athlon. ...
Sire can refer to several things: Sire is how one spells Eris backwords. ...
Zabeel was a notable Australian thoroughbred racehorse and now champion sire. ...
Eight Carat ((bl. ...
Man O War, born March 29, 1917 at Nursery Stud farm in Lexington, Kentucky, United States - died November 1, 1947 at Faraway Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, is considered to be one of the greatest thoroughbred racehorses of all time. ...
In 1999, a panel for The Blood-Horse magazine made up of distinguished horse racing people Howard Battle, Lenny Hale, Jay Hovdey, William Nack, Pete Pedersen, Jennie Rees and Tommy Trotter compiled a list of what they considered to be the top 100 racehorses of the 20th Century who had...
Trained by John Hawkes, in 1995 Octagonal was crowned the Australian Champion Two Year Old. The two-year-old Octagonal won the AJC Sires Produce Stakes and earned a second placing in the STC Golden Slipper, and AJC Champagne Stakes. The Australian Champion Two Year Old is awarded annually to the two year old horse whose performances in Australia are deemed to be the most impressive throughout each racing season. ...
The AJC Sires Produce Stakes is a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred horse race for 2 year olds at set weights run over a distance of 1400 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney in April. ...
The STC Golden Slipper is a horse race for two year old thoroughbred horses held in Sydney, Australia at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse. ...
The Champagne Stakes is a Group 1 horse race in Australia for two-year-old thoroughbreds at set weights run at Randwick Racecourse over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) during the Sydney Autumn Carnival. ...
In his three-year-old season Octagonal won seven times. But what was even more remarkable was the standard of his 3-year-old contemporaries. Saintly had already won the Australian Cup. (In the next season Saintly would win both the W S Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup). Nothin' Leica Dane had already been runner-up in the Melbourne Cup. While Filante would go on to win the Epsom Handicap in record time. Saintly was a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1992, he was bred and part-owned by legendary trainer Bart Cummings. ...
The Australian Cup is a Weight for Age horse race for thoroughbred racehoreses run over 2000 metres, at Flemington Racecourse Melbourne Australia in March. ...
The W.S. Cox Plate is a thoroughbred horse race held annually in late October by the Moonee Valley Racing Club in honour of W.S. Cox, the clubs founder. ...
The Melbourne Cup is Australias major annual thoroughbred horse race. ...
The Epsom Handicap is a major horse race for thoroughbred racehorses held over 1600m (one mile). ...
Octagonal's seven three-year-old victories started with the weight-for-age championship of Australia, the W S Cox Plate at Moonee Valley in his most dominant season. He went on to take out the 3yo Triple Crown consisting of the Canterbury Guineas, Rosehill Guineas and the Australian Derby in record time, and he is still the the last horse to have done so. Add to this a victory in the WFA Mercedes Classic marking his fourth Group 1 race win in five weeks. Already the earner of close to $A4 million, Octagonal was voted the 1996 Australian Champion Three Year Old as well as the Australian Horse of the Year title. Weight for Age is a term used in thoroughbred racing. ...
Moonee Valley Racecourse is the smallest of Melbourne, Victoria, Australias horse-racing tracks. ...
The Canterbury Guineas was a thoroughbred horse race held over 1900 metres at set weights for 3 year old horses. ...
The Rosehill Guineas is a Group 1 thoroughbred horse race for three year olds at set weights held over 2000 metres. ...
The Australian Derby is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run by the Australian Jockey Club (AJC) at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia. ...
The BMW is a major Group 1 horse race worth 2 million dollars, held over 2400m (a mile and a half). ...
The Australian Champion Three Year Old is awarded annually to the three year old horse whose performances in Australia are deemed to be the most impressive throughout the racing season. ...
The Australian Horse of the Year is based on a vote of racing experts. ...
Octagonal continued to perform well in 1997 when as a four-year-old he collected his second Mercedes Classic plus further Group I wins in the Australian Cup, Underwood Stakes and Chipping Norton Stakes. Octagonal retired to stud after 28 starts with a record of 14 wins (10xGroup1), 7 seconds (6 in GI or GII races) and a third. He ended his racing career with a stakes tally of $A5,892,231, the highest of any galloper in Australasia to that point. The BMW is a major Group 1 horse race worth 2 million dollars, held over 2400m (a mile and a half). ...
Group 1 element - an element classification for Alkali metal Group 1 - a FIA classification for auto racing Group 1 is the top level of thoroughbred racehorses competing eg. ...
The Australian Cup is a Weight for Age horse race for thoroughbred racehoreses run over 2000 metres, at Flemington Racecourse Melbourne Australia in March. ...
The Underwood Stakes is a Group 1 horse race, held at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne Australia. ...
The Chipping Norton Stakes is a Group 1 Australian thoroughbred horse race at Weight for Age run over a distance of 1600 metres at Warwick Farm Racecourse, Sydney in March. ...
Octagonal stands at Woodlands Stud, NSW. He is the Sire of Australian Group 1 winning brothers Lonhro and Niello, the South African Group 1 winner, Suntagonal. In 1998 he stood at Haras du Quesnay in France where his most prominent offspring was Laverock whose wins include two Group 1 races: the Prix d'Ispahan at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris and the Gran Premio del Jockey Club at Milan, Italy's, San Siro Racecourse. Lonhro (aka the black flash) was a champion Australian racehorse of the early 2000s. ...
Haras du Quesnay, known as Le Quesnay, is one of the most prestigious thoroughbred horse breeding farms in France. ...
The Prix dIspahan is a Group 1 flat horse race in France for four-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1,850 metres (approximately 1 mile and 1¼ furlongs) at Longchamp Racecourse in May. ...
The Longchamp Racecourse (French: ) is a 57 hectare horse-racing facility located on the Route des Tribunes in the Bois de Boulogne at Paris, France. ...
This article is about the capital of France. ...
The Gran Premio del Jockey Club is a Group 1 flat horse race in Italy for three-year-old and above thoroughbred colts and fillies run over a distance of 2,400 metres (approximately 1 mile 4 furlongs) at the San Siro Racecourse, Milan in October. ...
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