News - ZOUSAIN (AUS)
The Inglis Classic Yearling Sale is always a great showcase for first season sires and our gallery pages offer a great quick comparison of these sires on type.
It’s not easy to purchase a filly by champion sire Zoustar for $50,000 at a major yearling sale, but for these happy owners it’s been a dream come true!
His champion sire Zoustar smashed the all time Magic Millions Yearling Sale record when his filly from Solar Charged sold for $2.6million, but his exciting young sire son Zousain also had his time to shine with a filly from Sheila’s Star selling for $650,000.
Zoustar’s brilliant son Zousain is the most represented of all the first season sires at Magic Millions this year and made an early splash on Tuesday with his filly from Leap Lively making $350,000 for Widden Stud, who stand both his sire and grand-sire.
Breednet’s popular First Season Sire Gallery pages are now created offering a fast and easy way to compare yearlings by the new wave of sires on type, so let’s take a look at the most represented of all the newbies at this sale in Zousain.
A cracking catalogue for the 2023 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale is now online so Breednet have taken a close look at sire representation for this ever popular sale.
We’ve already had a taste of the first season sires at the recent Inglis Australian Weanling Sale and now the action moves to the Gold Coast, so if you want to make a quick comparison of what’s on offer check out our First Season Sire Gallery page.
The Inglis Australian Weanling Sale this week marks the first sale ring judgement for a new round of first season sires so let’s take a look at what’s on offer at Riverside Stables.
The Australian Studbook have today released official covering statistics for the 2021 breeding season with 34 stallions covering books of 150 mares or more and seven of those covering 200 plus, so who where these super busy guys?
We’re well into the season now and plenty of foals have found their way on to the Foal Gallery so we thought we’d take a look at some of the first foals of the first season sires, first-up Zousain.
Widden Stud’s flagship sire Zoustar had a treble of three lightly raced new maiden three year-old winners on Tuesday in Northern Melody, Zoumon and Battleton, a $300,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Widden Stud draft for Bjorn Baker Racing/Clarke Bloodstock.
The legacy of our revered champion sire Northern Meteor lives on at Widden Stud this spring with the arrival the first foals by Zousain, the Group I placed Group II winning son of our current flagship sire Zoustar.
Widden Stud are delighted with the arrival of the first foal for Zoustar’s stunning Group II winning son Zousain.
Covering mares is one thing, but getting them in foal can be another, however for Widden Stud’s young gun Zousain it’s been smooth sailing.
It took until the last day of the racing season, but Widden Stud’s flagship sire Zoustar became the youngest sire to join the century club this season, when posting his 100th winner at Geelong on Friday following an impressive debut victory for Sweetzou.
Our young champion sire Zoustar has built an impressive record with his oldest progeny just four year-olds and his best colt to date in Zousain will join the Widden roster in 2020.
Having enjoyed so much success with the late Northern Meteor and his current superstar son Zoustar it was no surprise to anyone on Friday when it was announced Widden Stud had bought into classy three year-old colt Zousain, who will run in the Group II ATC Run to the Rose at Rosehill on Saturday.
It only seems fitting that the first colt to win a stakes race by Northern Meteor’s high class son Zoustar should also be prepared by his trainer Chris Waller.