News - COOL AZA BEEL (NZ)
Cool Aza Beel was one of the most brilliant juveniles of his generation, combining elite speed, toughness and professionalism throughout an outstanding two-year-old season.
With a just quarter of a length separating the first four across the line, Gavin Bedggood’s 2yo Cool Aza Beel (NZ) filly Burning Heartz came out on top, breaking her maiden over 1300m on the Sandown Lakeside circuit on Wednesday.
When Savabeel passed away last week at Waikato Stud, we lost a genuinely outstanding sire and his legacy is something to be valued and preserved for the future.
At the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Monday, Newhaven Park’s exciting young sire Cool Aza Beel achieved his best ever sales result when the full brother to Group I winner Cool Archie sold for $500,000.
Group 1 JJ Atkins Stakes winner Cool Archie has been secured for stud duties by Newhaven Park and will commence his stallion career at his birthplace later this year.
Newhaven Park are being kept busy at Inglis Classic inspections this week with a draft of 14 that showcases eight youngsters by the farm’s promising young sire Cool Aza Beel.
She was the highest priced Cool Aza Beel yearling right up until Magic Millions this year when her record was pushed aside and promising filly Azzacool broke the ice at her second start at Seymour on Tuesday.
Newhaven Park is a family owned and run farm in the south west of NSW in the rolling hills of Boorowa and for generations the Kelly family have been producing champions and the current superstar to carry the RK brand might one day be the best of them all - Autumn Glow.
Te Akau Racing will be hoping to unwrap some late Christmas presents when they head to Wingatui on Boxing Day with a handful of runners.
The highly anticipated return to the races for exciting colt Cool Archie has been put on ice with co-trainer Chris Munce revealing the colt has an issue.
With superstar G1 colt Cool Archie warming up for a summer campaign, his sire Cool Aza Beel has not lacked for new winners over the spring with the Moody / Coleman trained filly Cooly opening her account with a dominant win at Caulfield on Wednesday.
Newhaven Park based Cool Aza Beel has already made his mark as a sire with Group I winning colt Cool Archie and has now put a Group winning filly on the board with Cool Aza Rene stamping her credentials for the upcoming Group I New Zealand 1000 Guineas.
There’s a burgeoning rivalry brewing between Te Akau Racing fillies Belle Du Monde and Cool Aza Rene, and that will continue at Riccarton Park on Saturday in the Listed NZB Canterbury Belle Stakes (1200m).
Breeders will have a timely chance to invest in one of Australia’s most exciting young stallions next week, with two individual stallion shares in Cool Aza Beel to be offered via the Magic Millions Virtual Sale on Tuesday, August 5.
Spring racing is just around the corner and a busy set of trials at Randwick on Friday featured eight heats won by juveniles with winners including stakes horses The Playwright and Cobra Club as well as unraced youngsters by Justify (USA), I Am Invincible and Flying Artie.
Te Akau Racing’s powerful team of New Zealand two-year-olds brought up their 20th win of the season when Cool Aza Rene edged out El Vaquero in Saturday’s Bain McCall Memorial (1000m) at Riccarton.
The Queensland winter carnival reached a crescendo at Eagle Farm on Saturday with two newly minted Group I winners in War Machine (NZ) and Cool Archie, who had something very interesting in common that may well be a sign of the times and a pointer to the future.
Recording a thoroughly deserving elite level victory off the back of his sensational form this time in, Chris and Corey Munce’s 2yo Cool Aza Beel colt Cool Archie took his campaign to five straight wins, capturing the Group 1 JJ Atkins (1600m) in style.
With his star colt Cool Archie set to run as favourite in this weekend’s Group I BRC JJ Atkins (1600m), Newhaven Park’s Cool Aza Beel kept the momentum going with a new winner at Doomben on Wednesday in Kahlua Girl.
A passion for pedigrees and thoroughbreds is often one that lasts a lifetime and so it has been for one of the co-breeders of Bravery, who contacted me this week following our earlier and very well read story on current 2YO star Cool Archie.