News - ZOUSTAR (AUS)
While international buyers weren’t able to be present at Karaka for New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale this week, Te Akau principal David Ellis ensured an international flavour wasn’t missing.
The big results keep coming at Magic Millions for Widden Stud with a powerful chestnut Zoustar colt from Lone fetching $800,000 on Thursday to the bid of James Harron Bloodstock.
It was another day and another seven figure sale for Widden Stud at the Magic Millions on Wednesday with an exceptional colt by Zoustar from Fuddle Dee Duddle knocked down for $1million.
Widden Stud’s Zoustar has had a hot run of late with over 30 winners in the past 30 days and one of the most promising of those winners is the Les Bridge trained gelding All Time Legend.
As we head into the sales season every yearling buyer thinks they know what they are looking for, but do they? This new Breednet innovation seeks to shed light on what the best progeny of a sire looked like as yearlings so we can maybe learn a lesson going forward, this time we look at one of the great Magic Millions success stories in Zoustar.
Bred and sold by Bowness Stud, brilliant Zoustar sprinter Indian Pacific was fresh off a break in the $100,000 Listed WATC Summer Scorcher (1000m) at Ascot on Saturday and hit top form with a bold front running win.
Zoustar had a winning metropolitan double in Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday with a pair of progressive horses in Zoushine and All Time Legend.
Seven winners around Aus and NZ yesterday with half or full relations in yearling sales, including four new winners with relations for sale by Snitzel, Zoustar, Starspangledbanner and Pierro.
A horse that Gai Waterhouse considers “one of the most talented 3YOs racing in Sydney”, 3YO Belieber (Zoustar), heads an impressive line-up in the Inglis Digital December Online Auction, which is now open for bidding.
A selection of the first Northern Hemisphere bred foals by champion Australian sire Zoustar met with a warm response at the Tattersalls December Foal Sale this week.
A full sister to multiple Group II winning sprinter Zoutori, the Chris Waller trained Kiku cast off maiden status with a stylish victory at Rosehill on Friday.
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Belieber broke his maiden in some style at in an 1100 metre maiden at Wyong on Thursday, the second impressive winner from this family in the past few weeks.
Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar enjoyed a two state stakes double on Saturday with Madam Rouge successful at Caufield and Indian Pacific claiming his first Black Type win in Perth.
There were only three runners in the Group III MRC Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Wednesday, but racegoers were treated to a clash of the titans as three terrific colts fought out the finish right to the line with less than half a length separating the trio on the post and Zoustar colt Ranting emerging as a maiden no more!
Three Bridges Thoroughbreds and partners have reached an agreement with Waller Racing to acquire the final Everest slot for quality sprint mare Haut Brion Her.
This expensive half-brother to Group I ATC Australian Derby winner Quick Thinker opened his account with a strong finishing win at Hawkesbury on Thursday.
He's not the ‘last of the mohicans’, but he is the last foal of a celebrated blue hen.
Champion trainer Chris Waller has a knack for cuddling talented mares and one of them is Haut Brion Her, who resumed from a spell to win the Group II ATC Sheraco Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday bringing up a two state Group II double for her sire Zoustar, who was successful earlier in the earlier in the day with Zoutori at Flemington.
Slick Zoustar sprinter Zoutori started last spring winning the Group II VRC Bobbie Lewis Stakes (1200m) at Flemington and he repeated the performance again on Saturday.
Zoustar might be best known for his sprinter milers, but in Singapore his reputation rides with the Champion 3YO of 2019 Top Knight, who claimed another big prize at Kranji on Saturday when taking out the Singapore Derby Sng G1.