News - ZOUSTAR (AUS)
Blue hen Listen Here was sold for a whopping $3,4million at the 2016 Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and made it a perfect four winners from four foals to race when $1million Inglis Easter Zoustar filly Zaniah saluted on Friday.
Not A Single Doubt, Zoustar and Magic Albert made it a Group 1 clean sweep for Australian stallions at Kranji on Saturday night.
He didn’t win a stakes race on Saturday, by undefeated Zoustar three year-old Zoustyle stamped his credentials for future success with a brilliant return at Doomben.
The classic season brings out the best in some horses so a look at the leading sires of three year-olds list often sheds light on some of the very best stallions and the horse setting the pace this year will stand this season as the fourth most expensive sire in the country.
Boom two-year-olds Prince Of Sussex (Toronado) and Sartorial Splendor (Brazen Beau) can give a huge boost to the stocks of their respective first season sires in Saturday’s inaugural running of the $1 million The Showdown at Caulfield for VOBIS Sires eligible horses at Caulfield on Saturday but we will look to a stallion that could be viewed as a defector from the Victorian Thoroughbred industry.
Our current crop of second season sires includes some stallions that are being tipped for the very top of the stallion tree, so lets take a look at how Zoustar and Dundeel compare by statistics given Widden have already set Zoustar’s fee at $154,000 and we await the fee on Dundeel, who stands at Arrowfield Stud.
A homebred for Richard Johnston’s Bylong Park, well bred three year-old Zoustar gelding Zouologist opened his account with an easy victory at Warwick Farm on Wednesday as a short priced favourite.
The famed WIDDEN STUD have announced their roster for the 2019 season spearheaded by the exciting Zoustar (Northern Meteor) who will stand for $140,000 + GST while multiple Group 1-winning newcomer Trapeze Artist (Snitzel) will begin his first season at a fee of $90,000 + GST.
The 2019 Inglis Australian Eater Yearling Sale starts on Tuesday and for investors looking for a quick reference of all the yearlings sold previously as weanlings Breednet offers a pinhook report.
Breaking her maiden in good style at Kenilworth on Wednesday was three year-old Zoustar filly Boomps a Daisy, while later on the program undefeated Foxwedge filly Run Fox Run scored her third successive win bringing an update for her Inglis Easter bound half-brother.
It was all happening at the Randwick trials on Friday morning with Group I stars Trapeze Artist, Happy Clapper and Vega Magic all winning heats on their way to next week’s The Championships, while three year-old Zoustar colts Zousain and Lean Mean Machine gave notice of their Group I intentions.
Zoustar filly Sunlight elevated her claim to be one of the all time great sprinting fillies when scoring a bold front running win in the Group I MVRC William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
South African born jockey Barend Vorster did not have to wait long to make his mark in Australia and it came on board the star filly Sunlight who kept up a relentless gallop to win Saturday's Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.
Making its presence felt on the opening day at Karaka, Godolphin honed in on a powerfully made chestnut daughter of Zoustar and had the final say at $600,000.
Not all the best Magic Millions graduates were in action at the Gold Coast on Saturday with this Randwick winner stamping himself as a likely new stakes-winner for outstanding young sire Zoustar.
Just days after winning the Group III BRC BJ McLachlan Stakes, promising Zoustar colt Sun City is out of contention for the Magic Millions 2YO Classic after suffering a leg infection.
Zoustar has been riding the crest of a winning wave in 2018 and added a new string to his bow at Sha Tin on Saturday when siring his first winner in Hong Kong.
Stakes-placed at his first two starts, exciting Zoustar colt Sun City cast off maiden status with a powerful win in the Group III BRC BJ McLachlan Stakes(1200m) at Doomben securing his place in the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic next month.
The Group III BRC BJ MCLachlan Stakes in Brisbane on Saturday is likely to shed light on the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic with the race featuring much hyped first starter Just Zerene, an $800,000 Magic Millions purchase that has been heavily backed to win the big one at the Gold Coast next month.
Australia’s leading second crop sire Zoustar is currently settling into his new surrounds at Tweenhills Stud in the UK in preparation for his first book of Northern Hemisphere mares and delivered his 30th winner of the season at Sale on Sunday with a debut victory for a promising filly.