SEUL AMOUR is a bay horse foaled in 2000 by ZABEEL from the brilliant filly GRAND ARCHWAY by ARCHWAY.
Seul Amour retired to stud in 2006 as the winner of six races from 1400m to 2100m. Starting his race career in NZ as a 3YO, Seul Amour transferred to Australia with a record of two wins & two placings from his first seven starts in NZ. In Sydney he added four wins in town including an impressive stakes win in the Sky High Stakes at 1900m. He also ran several very creditable races in top company including a close second in the Group Three Kingston Town Stakes. His complete career record reads 22 starts for six wins, four seconds, 3 fourths. A very popular horse in Sydney, Seul Amour often started race favourite. His connections had an enormous opinion of him and his last seven starts were all in the highest of stakes company against some of Australia’s best horses. Seul Amour’s versatility is evident by his range of winning distances and he also won on all track conditions from slow to fast. He represents a very unique opportunity to access Zabeel’s bloodlines through a very well performed son.
Seul Amour is an imposing individual, standing approximately 16.3 hands. He has great balance & presence, & is quite deceptive for a big horse as he is so athletic. He also has a great attitude and temperament.

Sireline:
ZABEEL - A $650,000 Karaka yearling Zabeel showed early promise winning a 1400m 2YO race at Flemington before training on at 3yrs to win the Debonair Stakes (1400m) & the (1600m) Australian Guineas - G1. Zabeel retired at 4yrs after 19 starts for 7 wins, 5 placing & $1.1million.

ZABEEL– (to Apr ’08) is sire of 1018 runners; 739 winners; 112 stakes winners; 37 individual Group One winners; progeny earnings of $130 million. His career highlights include Champion Australian Stallion twice, Champion NZ sire four times & combined NZ Champion sire eleven times. In 1999 Zabeel became the first sire ever to produce progeny earnings over $10,000,000 in a single season.
Other achievements include siring the Australian Horse of the Year on three occasions (Octagonal, & Might and Power x 2) & winning the prestigious NZ Dewar Trophy Award on four occasions. Zabeel’s dominance of Australia’s feature staying races has culminated in a quinella in the ’98 Melbourne Cup (Jezabeel & Champagne), and the trifecta in the ’99 Caulfield Cup (Sky Heights, Laebeel, & Inaflury).

Over the past two years Zabeel has sired the winners of the Melbourne Cup / VRC Derby (Efficient), AJC Derby (Fiumicino), Yalumba Stakes (Maldivian) and Dubai Sheema Classic (Vengeance Of Rain). Zabeel’s supremacy as a sire has resulted in an unprecedented demand for his progeny. His yearlings have sold to a record NZ$3.6 million paid for a colt who raced as Don Eduardo who became a Gr. One winner when triumphant in the AJC Derby.

ZABEEL is by the Sir Ivor stallion SIR TRISTRAM. His dam is Lady Giselle, by NUREYEV from Valderna, by VAL DE LOIR from Derna.

SIR TRISTRAM rates as one of Australasia’s most influential sires ever. At the time of his death in 1997 Sir Tristram had established a world record for the number of individual Group One winners he had sired. This extraordinary stallion has created a dynasty, which continues to flourish through the success of his sons and daughters at stud. The ability of Sir Tristram & his progeny to ‘nick’ with other breed giants Star Kingdom & more recently Danehill will ensure the future success of the Sir Tristram line. The mantle of Australasia’s heir apparent to Sir Tristram has appropriately gone to his son Zabeel.

NUREYEV ranks as one of the world’s greatest active sires. A superbly bred star race horse, Nureyev is a son of the great Northern Dancer. He ranks as a ¾ brother to the great sires Sadler’s Wells, Fairy King, & Tate Gallery. With progeny earnings approaching $79.5 million & sire of 137 stakes winners Nureyev is now making his mark as a brood mare sire, his daughters producing over 134 stakes winners of $106 million.

VAL DE LOIR won the French Derby & became a good sire in France. Representing the Blandford sire line he sired 28 stakes winners. A successful brood mare sire of 608 runners, 392 winners, 72 stakes winners, his major contributions are as dam sire of Green Dancer & Lady Giselle.

Damline:
GRAND ARCHWAY by ARCHWAY from Mean Eyes by AL AMEEN.

ARCHWAY - a son of the brilliant sprinter THATCHING & a half brother to the Epsom Derby winner DR DEVIOUS, Archway was a high class sprinter himself - winning the Group Three Greenlands Stakes in Ireland, running third in the Group Two Kings Stand at Royal Ascot & fourth in the Group One Prix de l'Abbaye in France before retiring to stud in Australia. Archway, by the same sire as good Victorian speed stallion Rustic Amber was expected to be a speed sire himself, but it was as a sire of quality middle distance and Classic horses that Archway eventually made his mark, producing Oaks winners ROSE ARCHWAY & SHE’S ARCHIE, Derby winner TALES OF TRIOMPHE, Australian Cup / Toorak Hcp winner ROMAN ARCH among his 21 stakes winners (5 Group One winners) & 350 winners of $23.5 million. However it is GRAND ARCHWAY who is the crowning glory of Archway’s stud career, a four time Group One winner & outstanding performer, she added approx $1.75 million to Archways overall progeny earnings.

AL AMEEN - a son of the top sire Lyphard & the brilliant Hail To Reason mare Priceless Gem, Al Ameen is a half brother to the great International Champion mare ALLEZ FRANCE, considered one of the world’s most outstanding performers in the early to mid 1970’s. Al Ameen is also a half brother to the outstanding NZ based sire Noble Bijou who produced 597 runners, 421 winners, 66 stakes winners & 10 individual Group One winners including the outstanding performers THE PHANTOM CHANCE (Cox Plate), MR LOMONDY (Caulfield Cup), OUR SOPHIA (AJC Oaks), THE PHANTOM (Mackinnon Stks), ALIBHAI (Rosehill Guineas), PRINCE MAJESTIC (Tancred Stks), POWLEY (NZ 1000 Guineas) etc.

GRAND ARCHWAY was an outstanding race filly. From the time she won four races in succession as a two year old culminating in a Flemington stakes win over 1427m defeating Alinghi’s dam Oceanfast, it was obvious that here was a filly of some talent. As a spring 3YO Grand Archway really found her forte over the longer distances, winning both the Wakeful Stakes (2000m) & VRC Oaks (2500m) at the Flemington carnival.

Grand Archway

GRAND ARCHWAY resumed from a brief break to score a magnificent first up victory in the 1200m MVRC Australia Stakes, a feature Group One sprint against Australia’s best speed horses. This was followed by another dominant Group One victory over the older horses in the 1400m VATC CF Orr Stakes defeating some outstanding weight-for-age gallopers before heading to Sydney to take out the Group One AJC Oaks (2400m). GRAND ARCHWAY was subsequently named 1999 Champion Australian 3YO & Champion Australian Female. She retired with a career record of nine wins from 1150m to 2500m including Group One victories from 1200m to 2500m and $1,757,000 earnings. Seul Amour is her first foal.

Although bred to win Classics, SEUL AMOUR showed a very good turn of foot – much like his dam he was able to win over short distances as well. His family should not be underestimated for its sprinting ability & 2YO performances as well as Classic staying appeal. Grand Archway was a 2YO stakes winner & her dam MEAN EYES was placed in the Magic Millions at 2 years. Mean Eyes dam is a half sister to the brilliant sprinters Pacific Ruler & Pacific Prince. Mean Eyes’ grand dam was the outstanding filly EYE LINER whose 14 career wins included 9 victories at 2 years to Group One level. The next dam back NEW VENN was also an outstanding stakes winning 2YO. ZABEEL has himself also produced Octagonal, an unlucky 2nd to Flying Spur in the Golden Slipper at 2. Zabeel is the sire of the brilliant sprinters Peruzzi, Mouawad, The Big Bopper, Bezeal Bay & the outstanding colt Reset as well as a multitude of high class stayers.


Seul Amour stands at Larneuk Stud, Euroa for a service fee of $5,500 (including GST) payable on the birth of a live foal. This exciting horse is an impressive individual, very much in the mould of his famous sire. He stands 16.3h and possesses great balance & elegance plus a magnificent temperament.