World renowned Cambridge Stud has an iconic place in New Zealand thoroughbred breeding history and under the new ownership of Brendan and Jo Lindsay is really gaining momentum as a respected source of top-class thoroughbreds thanks to a vibrant young stallion roster and elite broodmare band.
Cambridge Stud don’t send yearlings to Australia lightly and the five chosen for the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale are hand picked to reflect the bloodlines bringing new success to the farm with every week that passes. Every yearling is either out of a stakes-winner or is a sibling to a stakes-winner.
Three yearlings in the draft are by Cambridge Stud based sires Almanzor (Fr) and Hello Youmzain (Fr), who are both doing a fine job albeit at different stages of their career.
“Almanzor has had three stakes winner in Australia this season and overall his black type percentages stack up against the top stallions (13.5% black type performers-to-runners in the Southern Hemisphere,” said Cambridge Stud’s Scott Calder.
“Hello Youmzain has begun very well in Europe earning himself a fee increase for 2025 and is already stacking up the winners with his Euro three-year-olds.
“His three runners in Australia so far are Stormland, a debut Randwick winner for the Ciaron Maher stable that is headed for the G3 Kindergarten, Hello Romeo, who won for Lindsay Park and contested the Karaka Million and Signoretti, who ran second at Cranbourne last Friday.”
First into the ring for Cambridge Stud will be Lot 53, the half-sister to $4.4million earning multiple Group winning sprinter I Am Me by champion sire Too Darn Hot (GB) from blueblood Medaglia D’Oro (USA) mare Mefnooda. The Too Darn Hot x Medaglia D’Oro nick has already produced a stakes-winner from just three runners in Group II placed Listed winner Superalloy.
Her sire has taken all before him in Australia as Champion First Crop Sire last season and is now setting the pace as the leading second crop sire by earnings, winners and stakes-winners.
Her dam was purchased by Cambridge Stud before I Am Me came to light, acquired for her impeccable pedigree bristling with stakes-winners and tracing back to the family of champion sires Storm Cat and Royal Academy.
Mefnooda will have every opportunity going forward to add even further value to this evolving family and produced another filly for the Lindsay’s last year by Satono Aladdin (Jpn). She is currently in foal to Cambridge’s exciting son of Frankel, Chaldean (GB).
Lot 127 is an Almanzor (Fr) colt from exceptional producer Romantic Time, who has had four foals to race and all are winners with three of them Black type horses.
“This horse represents an established Cambridge Stud family that has crossed over from the previous era into the present,” said Scott Calder.
“Sir Patrick and Lady Hogan bred $2million earner Young Werther and stakes-placed Romantic Lady out of her and we have subsequently bred Group II winner About Time.”
It’s a family that has it’s origins in Australia through Group and stakes-winning fillies Amelia’s Dream and Shalt Not with the recent addition of Group III VRC Red Roses Stakes winner Amelita.
Lot 192 is a powerhouse colt by Hello Youmzain (FR) from well related Sea the Stars mare Steer the Stars (IRE), a winning half-sister by Pivotal to stakes-winners Consort and Her World. The colt is a three-quarter brother to UK based stakes-winner Never Back Down and his dam has had three foals to race and all are winners.
“This mare was purchased from Tattersalls through John Foote and it’s worth noting she produced Hello Youmzain’s highest priced yearling last year – a colt now named Hello Captain and in work with Chris Waller,” Calder pointed out.
Lot 259 is the half-sister by Almanzor (Fr) to this season’s Group I ATC Spring Champion Stakes winner El Castello from Word Games, a winning half-sister by Fastnet Rock to dual Group I winner Fiveandahalfstar.
“We purchased her dam privately and she subsequently produced El Castello, who is one of two Sydney Group I winners this season we have bred along with Ceolwulf,” Calder reflected.
Lot 267 is a lovely filly from the second SH crop of Wootton Bassett (GB) and is the first foal of stakes-winning Zoustar mare Zouzarella.
“Zouzarella was bought in Australia as a yearling and raced here for the Lindsay’s before retiring to our broodmare band and she produced a colt last spring by Savabeel and is now back in foal to Chaldean,” Calder added.
The Cambridge Stud yearlings have travelled across from New Zealand in great shape and will be available for inspection at Riverside Stables from Tuesday morning.
