News - ZOUSTAR (AUS)
With less than two weeks until the 2018 Golden Slipper it seems only fitting that the busiest sire in 2017 should in fact be a Golden Slipper winner.
The upward trend of Magic Millions' yearling sales in 2018 continued this week at the Adelaide Yearling Sale with increases across the board at the successful two day auction.
Champion trainer Chris Waller unleashed a winning two year-old double for Australia’s leading first season sire Zoustar on Wednesday at Warwick Farm with exciting wins for Lean Mean Machine and Madam Rouge.
Australia’s leading first season sire Zoustar added another impressive debut winner to his tally on Wednesday with a first up Warwick Farm success for the Chris Waller trained colt Lean Mean Machine.
An innovative experiment to split the stud career of Northern Meteor’s best son Zoustar between Widden Stud in the Hunter Valley and Woodside Park Stud in Victoria found overwhelming success in the sale ring this week where his second crop of Victorian conceived youngsters duly sold like the proverbial hot cakes.
Prematurely dead after just four seasons at stud, Northern Meteor is poised to leave a lasting legacy with three of his young sire sons now on the board with winners, while another two are proving popular at the yearling sales this year with their first offspring on offer.
A proven source of Group I winners including current season three year-old Trapeze Artist, Bowness Stud are offering an outstanding draft of eight for the 2018 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale including three stunning colts by the current leading Australian 2YO Sire Zoustar.
Woodside Park Stud had plenty to celebrate last weekend with the outstanding win of Written Tycoon’s son, Written By in the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes, the tough fighting victory of Sunlight the Group 2 Silver Slipper and their future stallion, Tosen Stardom (Jpn) back to his best and ready to take on the Sydney Carnival.
In what may well have been a preview of the Golden Slipper, the top-class fillies Sunlight and Estijaab staged a two-horse war in Saturday’s $250,000 Group II Silver Slipper Stakes at Rosehill Gardens.
It only seems fitting that the first colt to win a race by Northern Meteor’s high class son Zoustar should also be prepared by his trainer Chris Waller.
Ger Beemsterboer has experienced the swings and roundabouts at Karaka during New Zealand Bloodstock’s Book 1 Sale.
At the Magic Millions Yearling sale on Thursday, Tony McEvoy was forced to go to $600,00 to purchase the Zoustar x Solar Charged filly, which was double he needed to purchase her sister Sunlight the previous year.
Northern Meteor’s champion son Zoustar is the sire of exciting filly Sunlight, who blitzed her rivals to win in scintillating time at the Gold Coast on Saturday in a stunning dress rehearsal for the $2million Magic Millions 2YO Classic next week.
It’s the last chance saloon for plenty of Gold Coast Magic Millions 2YO Classic hopefuls on Saturday but Tony McEvoy’s classy filly Sunlight looms as a huge stumbling block.
A former ‘Best On Breeding’, the Tony McEvoy-trained Sunlight, will be favoured to break her maiden status in Saturday’s Magic Millions QTIS Two-Year-Old Handicap at the Gold Coast and push her claims for the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic, but she may be beaten to the punch as the first winner for Zoustar by a high-priced colt at Warwick Farm.
Four heats for two year-olds at the Randwick trials on Thursday morning produced some interesting winners including a colt by Zoustar prepared by Chris Waller, who trained his sire to Group I success.
Four juvenile heats at Randwick on Tuesday morning produced some interesting horses including a runaway winner for Widden Stud’s Star Witness, while his barn mate Zoustar also got into the picture.
Brilliant dual Group I winner Zoustar has made a good impression with his first runner Sunlight finishing a close third in the Listed VRC Maribyrnong Trial at Flemington on Saturday.
A stakes winner with his first runner would be a dream start for any stallion and Zoustar gets his chance to achieve that feat at Flemington on Saturday in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes.
Two juvenile trials at the Cranbourne training track in Victoria on Monday morning produced interesting winners for the Tony McEvoy stable by I Am Invincible and first season sire Zoustar.