Juddmonte stallion Zamindar dies at 32, leaves lasting breeding legacy
Zamindar died at 32 after leaving a breeding footprint that ran through Zarkava, Kingman and New Bay, even with fewer than 700 foals.
Juddmonte said Zamindar died at 32, closing the life of a Kentucky-bred son of Gone West whose name carried far beyond his own racing record. He was a full brother to Zafonic, raced in France for Andre Fabre, and won the Prix de Cabourg (G3) before finishing second in the Prix Morny (G1) and third in the Prix de Salamandre (G1).
The real measure of Zamindar came after he retired to Banstead Manor Stud in Cheveley, near Newmarket, where he spent 28 years and was pensioned from breeding in 2013. Juddmonte said he sired fewer than 700 foals from 13 crops of racing age, yet still produced more than 50 black-type performers, a return that placed him among the operation’s most efficient sources of class.
His impact was carried most clearly by his daughters. Zamindar sired five Group 1-winning fillies, including the unbeaten Zarkava, along with Zenda, Timepiece, Darjina and Cinnamon Bay. Those mares, in turn, pushed his influence deeper into the modern European breed: Zarkava produced Zarak, Zenda is the dam of Kingman, and Cinnamon Bay produced New Bay.
That chain makes Zamindar more than a line on a stud card. It puts him inside some of the most valuable breeding families in the sport, where a stallion’s worth is measured not only by what he does himself, but by the sires and broodmares he leaves behind. Juddmonte, the international breeding and racing operation founded in 1980 by the late Prince Khalid bin Abdullah, built part of its European base around that kind of long view, and Zamindar fit it perfectly.
“It was with great sadness after 28 years at Banstead Manor Stud that we said farewell to Zamindar,” Simon Mockridge, Juddmonte’s UK general manager, said in a tribute that also pointed to his power, size and character. For horsemen who track pedigrees as closely as race results, Zamindar’s name will keep resurfacing in the families of elite runners long after his own races have faded from view.
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