Sebring winning the Golden Slipper.
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By Kate Watts
The racing industry is mourning the death of Golden Slipper winning stallion and champion sire Sebring after his sudden passing.
Widden Stud confirmed the 13 year-old has suffered from a heart attack on Saturday afternoon.
Purchased as a yearling by Star Thoroughbreds for just $130,000 from the 2007 Magic Millions Sale, the son of More Than Ready went on to win $2.537m in prizemoney.
Trained by Gai Waterhouse he won five of his six starts as a two-year-old including the Golden Slipper and the Sires’ Produce Stakes.
Standing for Widden Stud, Sebring’s stud career was firing with a fee last year of $66,0000, having sired 51 stakes winners including Group One winners Dissident, Criterion, Egg Tart and Amphitrite.
“Sebring was the horse of a lifetime, as a racehorse and a stallion, he changed lives,” Widden’s Antony Thompson told Breednet.
“It’s been a great privilege to stand him at Widden and we are incredibly grateful to everyone that has supported him throughout his career and given him the opportunity to succeed in the way that he has,” he said.
This article first appeared on Racing.com and is reprinted here with their kind permission. To find out more about Racing Victoria’s Off the Track program, visit rv.racing.com/the-horse/off-the-track.
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