News - ZOUSTAR (AUS)
Glamour grey sprinter Classique Legend might be the star of Les Bridge’s team at present, but he has another bright prospect in progressive Zoustar gelding All Time Legend, who scored a surprise first up win at Randwick on Saturday.
The famed colours of US based Stonestreet Stables were in the winner’s circle at Wyong on Tuesday with promising two year-old Zoustar filly Yangarra Rose.
Talented Zoustar mare Solar Star was rewarded for her consistency when scoring an all the way win in the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic (1350m) at Ipswich on Saturday providing the perfect pedigree update ahead of her appearance at the Gold Coast sale ring where she will be offered at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.
Zoustar posted his second promising juvenile winner this week at Geelong on Friday with a strong finishing victory for this John McArdle trained filly.
Good looking Zoustar colt Oregon broke through for his first win at Canterbury on Wednesday, the two year-old now looking towards the paddock with stakes goals in mind next season.
A luckless fifth when making her career debut over 1200 metres at Canterbury a fortnight back, the Gerald Ryan-trained Zoustar filly Zoumist displayed a dazzling turn of foot to put paid to a good looking field of two-year-olds over 1400 metres at Kembla Grange on Tuesday.
Talented Zoustar three year-old Inner Flame made it four wins from five starts when he saluted at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Hong Kong based Legend Racing was the third biggest buyer at last week’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale signing for nine horses for a total of $4,325,000 and their colours were carried to victory at Newcastle last Saturday by Madam Legend and again at Warwick Farm on Monday by progressive three year-old All Time Legend.
The Inglis Easter Yearling Sale online produced a new benchmark for champion sire Zoustar with the full brother to Champion 3YO Filly Sunlight selling for $1.1million on Tuesday.
Astute yearling judge Carmel Size has bought some top class horses that are named ‘Legend’ and we may have seen another at Kembla on Tuesday.
Some people may have wondered at Coolmore’s Tom Magnier paying $500,000 for a Zoustar colt early in the sale at Magic Millions on Wednesday, but when you hear what his breeder John North of Bowness Stud has to say about him you can see why this colt is seen as having serious potential.
Respected bloodstock James Harron struck early at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale on Wednesday securing Lot 19, a powerful son of Zoustar, whose attitude and temperament marked him as something special.
The Toby and Trent Edmonds-trained Queen Kay defeated her better-fancied stablemate Smart 'N' Sexy in Saturday’s $125,000 Aquis Gold Pearl Quality at the Gold Coast, which was not just a blow to punters but looks to have cost the runner-up a spot in next week’s Magic Millions 2yo Classic.
There are some intriguing races for the two-year-olds on Saturday with Sunlight’s half-brother Halogen (Sebring) set to make his career debut at Moonee Valley, while in Sydney all four acceptors in the opener over 1000 metres at Randwick are eligible for the $2 million Magic Millions 2yo Classic.
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In 2018, Zoustar launched himself into the stratosphere with a trifecta in the Group I VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes – Sunlight, Zousain, Lean Mean Machine - and 12 months on his place as an elite stallion is assured with a blazing spring carnival delivering six individual Group winners.
Blue hen Listen Here was sold for a whopping $3.4million at the 2016 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and has the perfect record of four winners from four foals to race $1million Inglis Easter Zoustar filly Zaniah winning her third race and first in the metropolitan area at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
The massive prizemoney on races such as The Everest, Melbourne Cup and Golden Eagle tends to skew the Australian General Sires List heavily in the favour of sires that produce winners of those races, so a more accurate gauge as to just which stallions have had a good spring carnival comes with a look at the leading sires by stakes-winners list.
Exciting Australian sire Zoustar will head the roster at Tweenhills Stud in Gloucestershire next year when he makes his second shuttle trip from Widden Stud to the northern hemisphere.
The powerful Kris Lees stable includes some well-bred two year-olds, one of which was an eye-catching winner at the Newcastle trials on Monday morning, while at the same set of trials two royally bred older horses from the same stable indicated they were also ready for race day.