Widden Stud’s Zousain put a highlight on a great start to the new season, siring four winners on Saturday with only two stallions siring more so far in August.
Three of those winners were at metropolitan tracks and all lightly raced with more to offer.
Zalique kicked off, winning the Highway impressively at Rosehill for Matt Dunn, taking his record to three wins from five starts.
Howdoyouzou won the opening race at Eagle Farm for Pat Webster, taking his record to three wins and three placings from six starts while at Morphettville the Aaron Bain & Ned Taylor trained Leading Impact scored his third win from six starts.
The quartet were rounded out with Guac On’s win at Cairns.
That takes his tally to 19 winners of 22 races in this season to date with only So You Think (24) and Zousain’s sire Zoustar (22) having done better.
Zousain is coming of a strong third season where he finished as Australia’s leading third season sire by winners with 96, including stakes winners Verzain and Catch The Glory.
In total he sired 105, with six in Hong Kong and three in New Zealand,
With the winners tally, and horses that can win multiple races, the growing Hong Kong reputation and yearlings averaging better than $90,000 in Australia for the last two season, he’s making a good argument for himself at a $22,000 fee.
