Shoe worn by the racehorse Zafonic.

Shoe worn by the racehorse Zafonic,
mounted on a wooden plaque with easel support and set with an engraved metal plaque, 20 by 15cm.

Provenance: The Ray Goddard Collection (lots 97 to 178). For further information on Ray Goddard and the collection see lot 144.

Zafonic was a brown/black colt foaled in 1990 by Gone West out of Zaizafon (The Minstrel. He was bred by Juddmonte and raced in the colours of Prince Khalid Abdullah and trained in France by Andre Gabre.

The colt was crowned Champion European Two-Year-Old following victories in the Prix Morny, Prix de la Salamandre and Dewhurst Stakes. Despite a shock defeat at odds of 1-10 on his 3-y-o reappearance, Zafonic won the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket in great style and broke the course record, a time that had stood for 45 years. Very unfortunately the colt broke a blood vessel in the Sussex Stakes and was retired to stud.

His most famous of his progeny include Xaar, Count Dubois, Zafeen, Iffraajand Trade Fair.