Coolmore stars on the rise

YES YES YES Subscribe to Bluebloods This article was first published in Bluebloods in May 2023. To read it and many more indepth articles subscribe here Champion 3YO Colt Yes Yes Yes (Rubick-Sin Sin Sin, by Fantastic Light) is on target to be the leading first season sire next season with many of his…

ByRenee GeelenAugust 22, 20230Comments

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A bumper season ahead for Widden

With eleven stallions in NSW and ten in Victoria, Widden Stud has a huge range of choice for broodmare owners in 2023. Their roster is led by Zoustar (Northern Meteor) who will stand in 2023 for $220,000 thanks to the deeds of his Gr1 winners Sunlight, Zoutori, Zougotcha, Mizzy, and Lezoo. New in 2023 for…

ByRenee GeelenAugust 22, 20230Comments

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Dundeel

Dundeel (High Chaparral-Stareel, by Zabeel) epitomises class. Class is the elusive quality in a racehorse that makes them stand head and shoulders above their competitors. As a racehorse, Dundeel dominated with six Gr1 wins and now as a sire, he is showing his class through his progeny with two new Gr1 winners this season taking…

ByRenee GeelenJuly 18, 20230Comments

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Brave Smash

With attributes like precocity, speed, and soundness over several seasons, Brave Smash will forge ahead from the brilliant start he’s made to his stud career as he moves to the Hunter Valley’s Yarraman Park. The dual Gr.1 winning sprinter ticks many boxes, being a fantastic physical type, a tough sprinter, and a valuable outcross. We…

ByRenee GeelenJuly 18, 20230Comments

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Too Darn Hot

Too Darn Hot was bred to be outstanding. His sire and dam are triple Gr1 winner Dubawi and triple Gr1 winner Dar Re Mi, while his four grandparents are all Gr1 winners too: Gr1 Dubai World Cup winner Dubai Millennium, Gr1 Oaks d’Italia winner Zomaradah, four-time Gr1 winner Singspiel, and Gr1 Prix Vermeille winner Darara.…

ByRenee GeelenJune 7, 20230Comments

Inglis Easter 2023

Tyreel Stud

Tyreel Stud’s legacy of winners from their Inglis Easter Yearling Sale drafts is even more impressive when the small sizes of their drafts is considered. Rocket Spade (Fastnet Rock) won the 2021 New Zealand Derby-Gr1 and now races in Hong Kong, and that draft also included Gr2 placed winner Osamu. In 2020, their five yearlings…

ByRenee GeelenMarch 22, 20230Comments

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First Season Sires set to shine at Inglis Easter

With successful stallions like Deep Field, Shamus Award, All Too Hard and Champion Sire in South Africa Gimmethegreenlight all Inglis Easter Yearling Sale graduates, this year’s first season sires are headlined by Gr1 winner Exceedance who was sold at the 2018 Easter sale for $180,000. The Gr1 winner promises to become another in the long…

ByRenee GeelenMarch 22, 20230Comments

Inglis Easter 2023

Cressfield

Cressfield’s impressive broodmare band continues to produce the type of horses you’d expect with recent Gr2 winner Passive Aggressive (Fastnet Rock) being the latest up and coming star off the farm. Passive Aggressive took her record to 5 wins from 6 starts at Randwick recently scoring impressively in the Gr2 Challenge S, notably defeating two…

ByRenee GeelenMarch 22, 20230Comments

Inglis Easter 2023

Arrowfield

Arrowfield’s John Messara doesn’t often reminisce about the past - he’s much too excited about the future. In the wake of the Stud’s record-setting aggregate at last year’s Inglis Easter Sale, and ahead of presenting Arrowfield’s biggest and arguably best-ever Easter draft in 2023, he agreed to sit down and look back on 36 years…

ByRenee GeelenMarch 22, 20230Comments

Inglis Classic 2023

Riversdale Farm

Vendors of Gr1 winner Nettoyer and Samadoubt in their previous Inglis drafts, Riversdale Farm recently purchased Ashleigh to expand their operation and the two farms have teamed up for a combined draft at the 2023 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale. It’s not the first time Nick and Jas Hodges of Riversdale Farm have worked with Senga…

ByRenee GeelenFebruary 7, 20230Comments

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