Tarzino (NZ) (Tavistock {NZ}–Zarzino {NZ}, by Zabeel {NZ}), the winner of last year's G1 Victoria Derby and the 2016 G1 Rosehill Guineas, has been retired from racing and is likely to enter stud in New Zealand, according to Racing.com.
A NZ$45,000 yearling purchase from Cambridge Stud at the 2014 NZB Select Yearling Sale, Tarzino broke his maiden at second asking and went on to win the Derby four starts later. He finished second in the G1 Australian Guineas in the autumn before adding the Rosehill Guineas, and rounded out his 3-year-old campaign with a fourth in the G1 Australian Derby. The bay failed to hit the board in four tries this season, and was scratched from the Oct. 15 G1 Caulfield Cup after trainer Mick Price detected the injury that led to his retirement.
“He injured the oblique sesamoidean ligament on the inside of the off-front and whilst the horse doesn't realise that he has an injury, I think he's been stopped at the right time and if we had persevered then it would have blown into an injury in the Caulfield Cup,” Price told Racing.com. “If he was a gelding then obviously he would spell and complete rehabilitation, but with where the injury is on the horse and the timing of it the ownership syndicate has decided to retire the horse.”
Price added, “As a son of Tavistock, the ownership group– including Rosemont, who are the majority shareholder–believe the horse would do very well in New Zealand.”
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