News - ZOUSTAR (AUS)
Widden Stud are delighted to announce service fees on a diverse roster of 20 stallions split between NSW and Victoria with our flagship sire Zoustar remaining at the fee of $275,000 inc GST.
Rewarded for his consistency, four year-old Zoustar gelding Regal Zeus posted his first Black Type victory at Bendigo on Saturday when taking out the $200,000 Listed Golden Mile (1600m).
Barrier trials at Rosehill on Friday morning featured five heats for juveniles and winners included an unraced three-quarter sister-in-blood to Group I winner Mizzy and two unraced youngsters by Golden Slipper winning sire Farnan, who has already sired eight first crop winners this season.
The stars in Sydney were all in alignment for Little Avondale Stud to celebrate a record auction result during the second session of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
New Zealand’s Little Avondale Stud sold their first ever million-dollar yearling when their Zoustar colt from a mare that has an 85 year history with the stud and family made $1.7million.
A three-quarter sister-in-blood to triple Group I winner Zougotcha, Widden Stud’s Zoustar filly from stakes-winner The Actuary was always tipped to star at Inglis Easter on Monday morning and did not disappoint when selling for $2.6million.
Widden Stud had an early highlight at Inglis Easter on Monday morning selling the full brother to Group I MVRC William Reid Stakes winner Schwarz for $1.4million.
Widden Stud have a stellar draft of yearlings to be offered at Inglis Easter and the very first to be offered this year was a Zoustar colt from Lady Lupino that sold for $1.15million.
A full sister to Group I winner Mizzy, Dorrington Farm’s homebred filly She’s Got Pizzazz was a stakes-winner in Melbourne last spring and added further to her considerable worth when dropping from the clouds to win the Group III ATC PJ Bell Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.
Outstanding racemare Zougotcha will provide prospective buyers with a rare opportunity when she goes under the hammer at May's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast.
Connections of top-class mare Joliestar will wait until later this week before making a call on her involvement at Randwick at the weekend.
Group One winning sprinter Climbing Star is the latest highlight entry confirmed for May's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast.
Autumn Carnivals in Sydney and Melbourne are in full swing as we head to the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale (April 6,7) and it’s been a rising tide of success for Widden Stud’s champion sire Zoustar, who produced a new G1 winner last Saturday and hit the top of the Australian General Sires List by earnings, so let’s take a look at their Easter yearlings.
When a trainer takes on an expensive colt for a stallion syndicate there is a considerably higher degree of pressure placed on that trainer to turn that investment into a stallion of the future and when you lose your juvenile season due to a paddock accident, that task becomes a hell of a lot harder.
On a red letter day for Widden Stud, champion sire Zoustar has scaled the mountain and swept past Pride of Dubai to take over at the top of the Australian sires List by earnings courtesy of his Group I winning stallion Schwarz and his expensive filly Clean Energy, who returned to top form to win the Group III MVRC PKF Don Casboult Classic (1200m)
Rosemont Stud and partners have been hoping for a while to win a Group I with their royally bred Zoustar stallion Schwarz and the dream turned into reality at Moonee Valley on Saturday when he led all the way to win the $1million Group I MVRC William Reid Stakes (1200m).
Darby Racing had plenty of fun with high class Zoustar colt Ozzmosis and their colours were carried to victory at the metro meeting at Wyong on Wednesday by his three year-old brother Olufsen.
A filly by leading sire Zoustar has topped the 2025 Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale after selling for $350,000 at Morphettville today.
Widden sires Written By, Gold Standard and even Zoustar put their owners in the winner’s circle at Caulfield on Saturday.
Zoustar is one of the hottest sires in the country right now producing last Saturday’s Group I VRC Newmarket Handicap winner Joliestar with 35 of his glamour yearlings set to light up the sale ring next month at Inglis Easter, but it was one of his cheapest yearlings that became his latest stakes-winner at Canberra on Sunday.