Six time Group 1 winner Rakti has died at Chatswood Stud after a pelvic fracture pierced an artery.  He was 11.

Rakti (Polish Precedent) had remained at the Victorian stud instead of shuttling back to Ireland for the 2011 northern season.  

Originally based in Italy, Rakti won the Derby Italiano before joining Michael Jarvis in Newmarket to win the English Champion Stakes, Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes and Lockinge Stakes.

“He was a handful, a character but he was an absolutely brilliant racehorse,” Jarvis recalled.  “On song, he was a cracker.”

Rakti’s oldest European crop have just turned four and include Italian Listed scorer Carioca as well as multiple winners Bookiesindex Girl, Drumpellier, Sharakti and White Dart.

There have been two winners from 13 starters in his first southern crop – Sparks Alight (Bendigo) and Arakti (Te Rapa).