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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.
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.
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.
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's 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.
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.
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.
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