News - ZOUSTAR (AUS)
Reigning Champion Australia First Season Sire Zoustar gave us a ‘One to Watch’ on Sunday with a hot favourite saluting at Cranbourne.
Zoustar is making a fast start to the new season and gave us a ‘One to Watch’ on Friday when the half-sister to Group I ATC Australian Derby runner up Harper,s Choice saluted at Goulburn.
It’s official, Widden Stud’s Zoustar is the reigning Champion Australian First Season Sire for 2017/2018 and he was quickly back in a winning vein at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with three runners for an impressive winner in Charge and two second place-getters, all of them entered for the Golden Rose.
Brilliant Zoustar gelding Zoustyle made a huge impression when winning on debut at Doomben last month and was equally impressive at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday, but connections are not going to be tempted by the lure of spring racing.
Long time bloodstock agent Anton Koolman has had a very successful start to the year having an involvement in Group I winners The Autumn Sun, Youngstar and Egg Tart, that success carried over to a two year-old maiden winner by Zoustar at Hawkesbury on Thursday.
When Zoustar colt Zoustyle won a barrier trial on the dirt at Eagle Farm by 12 lengths earlier this month in brilliant time it got everyone talking and he made his debut at Doomben on Wednesday as a red hot favourite.
Record breaking Australian first season sire ZOUSTAR, part-owned by Qatar Racing, will stand at Tweenhills Stud in Gloucestershire for the 2019 breeding season.
Back in 2013, Northern Meteor tied up first season sire honours when he quinelled the final Group 1 race for juveniles, the JJ Atkins Stakes, with Romantic Touch and Zoustar.
Widden Stud’s exciting young sire Zoustar is powering to the back end of the season with a flurry of impressive winners and you can add this Ciaron Maher trained colt to the list.
Progressive Zoustar gelding Ronstar kept his unbeaten record intact when holding off a determined bid from expensive Snitzel colt Diplomatico to make it two wins in as many starts at Rosehill on Saturday.
Weanlings by Widden Stud’s red hot sire Zoustar were in keen demand at the Magic Millions National Weanling Sale this week and just to prove exactly why he is a star sire on the rise, the son of Northern Meteor delivered a quinella in the Group II BRC Sires Produce Stakes at Doomben on Saturday with Lean Mean Machine defeating Zousain.
Fresh from juvenile success having won the two year-old race at Rosehill last Saturday with Zoustar colt Ronstar, Gary Portelli has some more ammunition in the locker having produced the two fastest juvenile heat winners at the Warwick Farm trials on Monday morning.
With his pronounced swayback, the Gary Portelli-trained Ronstar was the subject of more curiosity than admiration when parading prior to his career debut in Saturday’s Abercorn Hall of Fame Handicap (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens.
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.
The team at Widden Stud is used to celebrating the success of the racehorses we produce, but in the past week it’s been the success of our highly skilled and much valued staff and our outstanding young stallion Zoustar, who was crowned Champion First Season Sire at the HTBA Awards in Scone on Thursday night.
Australia’s leading first season sire Zoustar added a sixth winner to his tally with an impressive debut victory at Balaklava on Wednesday for Be My Star.
NSW breeders will be pleased to know that Australia's Champion First Season Sire elect Zoustar will remain permanently in the Hunter Valley at Widden Stud where his stud career began.
Australia’s leading first season sire Zoustar added another impressive winner to his tally when Solar Star raced away for an easy victory at Benalla on Friday.
It’s been a long time since racetrack results generated by a first season sire have driven a sale ring frenzy, but that is what we are seeing in this country right now.
Australia’s leading first season sire Zoustar has had a big week with a metropolitan double on Wednesday and now his star filly Sunlight cementing her place as Golden Slipper favourite with a sparkling win in the Group III ATC Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill.