Future Champions

– Dual Group One winner, and Widden / Magic Millions graduate, STRATUM STAR is represented with his first crop at the 2020 Magic Millions Sale –

Future Champions ...

THE ANNUAL MAGIC MILLIONS YEARLING SALE on the Gold Coast has produced countless champions in its proud history and Widden Stud can lay claim to having MAGIC MILLIONS 2020 sold three of the last eight Magic Millions 2YO Classic winners. Widden Whinnies The Gai Waterhouse trained Fastnet Rock with the Gold Coast sale with his first filly DRIEFONTEIN started the winning run in crop generating over $8.4 million in 2012 when she scored a memorable victory on 2017, making him the third leading sire protest for a big team of owners put together by aggregate behind only Snitzel and I by Denise Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds. Am Invincible.

Driefontein was bought for $75,000 and retired That first crop included the with earnings of $2.3 million before being sold aforementioned who after her to Japan to embark on her breeding career, dominant win in the $2million Magic providing a fairytale result for her owners. Millions 2YO Classic has since added Driefontein was the equal cheapest filly by her victories in the Group I VRC Newmarket champion sire sold that year proving you do not Handicap, MVRC William Reid Stakes, have to spend a fortune to make a fortune! VRC Coolmore Stud Stakes & Group II Gilgai Stakes. A $120,000 purchase from the 2014 sale, Exceed and Excel colt LE CHEF scored his Her last run in the spring produced a career defining win in the $2 million race in brave second in the $7.5 million Golden 2015 for trainer Darryl Hansen and Mt Isa Eagle over 1500 metres, which was her based owner Lenore Saunders. first attempt beyond 1200 metres – a performance that will see Sunlight Le Chef was a stunning yearling that sold blessed with a myriad of racing options considerably short of his worth due to a minor in 2020. x-ray issue, which ruled out many of the Hong Kong buyers and bigger syndicators, proving Trained by Tony and Calvin McEvoy, almost perfect is often better than perfect. Sunlight has the overall record of 11 wins and seven placings from 21 starts For the record, Le Chef has still been competing successfully in 2019 as a seven year old ... with $6.5 million in earnings and will now that’s a sound horse! probably be the flagbearer for her sire for a good while to come. The third Widden Stud sold Magic Millions – The brilliant sprinter ZOUTORI who ran 1.08.37 when 2YO Classic winner is champion filly SUNLIGHT, dominantly winning the Gr.2 Bobbie Lewis, 1200m at Flemington – Sunlight is one of 13 stakes-winners who was bought in 2017 for $300,000 by from the first two crops sired by Aquis Farm/McEvoy Mitchell Racing/Blue Sky Zoustar, whose progeny are invariably Bloodstock. attractive individuals stamped with the Magic Spring for Zoustar good looks of their sire. The champion daughter of Zoustar is trained A stallion with refinement as well by Tony and Calvin McEvoy and has won 11 of IN 2018, ZOUSTAR LAUNCHED Among those six Group winners are 21 starts earning over $6.5 million. She may as the power physique of a sprinter, HIMSELF into the stratosphere with a three that were sold by Widden at the well be the finest filly ever bred by Widden Zoustar perfectly captures the blood trifecta in the Group 1 VRC Coolmore Magic Millions in SUNLIGHT and her Stud, whose own Katie Thompson has a share of champion sires Encosta de Lago Stud Stakes with Sunlight, Zousain, full sister SISSTAR, who both won in her ownership. and Redoute’s Choice, who feature Lean Mean Machine taking first, Group races at Flemington, as well as prominently in his pedigree. Widden Stud will present a draft of 42 yearlings second and third – and 12 months MADAM ROUGE. at the Gold Coast in 2020, including 25 sired on his place as an elite stallion is He has 32 entries for Magic Millions by our own stallions Zoustar, Sebring, Star assured with a blazing spring carnival A Magic Millions graduate himself, 2020 including nine to be offered by Witness, Nicconi, Your Song and Stratum Star. delivering six individual Group winners. Zoustar has always had a keen affinity Widden Stud. Freak of Nature – Judged the fastest sprinter in the world, NATURE STRIP Full Circle delivered the performance of the carnival winning the Gr.1 A BRILLIANT DUAL GROUP 1 Darley Sprint Classic at Flemington – for Stratum Star WINNING SPRINTER, NICCONI has sired a lot of fast horses since WIDDEN STUD BRED STRATUM STAR was a $165,000 retiring to Widden Stud in 2010, Magic Millions graduate from the 2013 Gold Coast Sale but none have been faster than the and 2020 will see the first of his progeny to grace sale mighty NATURE STRIP. rings around Australia.

Now in the care of champion trainer A dual Group 1 winner of $2.4 million in prizemoney, Chris Waller with James McDonald Stratum Star is the best son of Widden Stud’s much missed as his regular pilot, Nature Strip is Golden Slipper winning sire Stratum, who died in 2016. delivering on the untapped potential he has always shown. A handsome chestnut with a great constitution, Stratum Star won Group 1 races on both sides of the country A horse that has tended to polarise taking the Group 1 MRC Sir Rupert Clark Stakes (1400m) racing fans, Nature Strip has at and WATC Kingston Town Classic (1800m) – a lucrative times been his own worst enemy, win in the $1 million Magic Millions Trophy over 2200m but this spring he has come of age. under 61kg showing his great will to win. His dazzling victory in the Group 1 Widden Stud are delighted to offer Lot 134 at Magic VRC Darley Sprint Classic earned Millions, a chestnut colt by Stratum Star from well bred him a Timeform rating of 128, which Northern Meteor mare BISUTTI. is the best of any horse in Australia this season. This stunning colt is a three-quarter brother to ABSOLUTE FLIRT, a brilliant stakes-winning juvenile that “I’m thrilled for the horse and thrilled for the connections, has won over $200,000 in prizemoney and been twice he has gone to a new level this Group 3 placed. preparation. He's had only one real disappointment and that was at his “All preparation he has shown how If Nicconi was looking for a ‘big first start – apart from that he’s well he is going; he’s a very happy horse’, then Nature Strip has filled been faultless, a star,” McDonald horse and that takes them a long that role, and then some, with Royal enthused after the win. way,” Waller said in his post-race Ascot in 2020 looming as a likely target for this freak of nature. “He was airborne, floating across remarks. the ground, I slipped him a bit more Nature Strip is one of three stakes- “We’ve been fortunate enough to rein at the 300m and I looked at the winners this season for Nicconi, take over a very fast horse and we’ve big screen and thought 'oh no'. It felt whose biggest ever foal crop are added a bit of our own fine tuning.” like I was six in front and he was still current season two year olds giving going through his gears and he ran “I’m not too sure where he will have promise that the best is still to come it out so strongly.” his next starts, but I know the team for this highly reliable source of winners and stakes horses. Nature Strip has won three Group 1 are keen to take him to Royal Ascot races since joining the stable of in June, although there will certainly Nicconi has 10 entries for Magic – STRATUM STAR – Chris Waller. be a few races before then.” Millions. Looking for a proper racehorse?

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Stratum Star – first crop yearlings on offer in 2020

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WHEN AUSSIE BRED STAYER VOW AND DECLARE scored a tenacious victory in the Melbourne Cup, a cheer went up around the country from most breeders celebrating the first Australian bred Cup winner in a decade, but the cheer at Widden was particularly enthusiastic given his dam Geblitzt now resides in the valley of champions.

Owned by Paul Lanskey & Helga Hueston, who bred Vow and Declare and share in his ownership, 13 year-old Geblitzt is shaping as a blue hen with – TRAPEZE ARTIST – – WRITTEN BY – two of her first three foals now stakes-winners in $5.7 million earner Vow and Declare and Lycurgus, whose full sister will be offered by Widden Stud at the 2020 Magic Millions as Lot 329.

A strapping chestnut filly by Star Witness, she is bred on the exact same Breeders Welcome Widden Young Guns cross as dual Group I winning filly Global Glamour, who is also by star Witness from a daughter of Testa Rossa. WIDDEN STUD HAD THE Valley prior to the season the Timeform highest rated PLEASURE of launching two commencing,” said Antony two year old for the 2017/2018 “She is a lot more like her sire and is a sharper, more precocious style of new elite young stallions in Thompson. season, rated higher than the horse than Vow and Declare,” said Widden Stud’s Ryan McEvoy. 2019, with Trapeze Artist and likes of Estijaab, Sunlight and Trapeze Artist covered a full “We really like her and she looks a natural runner as you would expect Written By both covering large, The Autumn Sun. book of 180 mares, including from her dam, who has done such a great job.” impressive books of mares, the likes of fast stakes winning A dominant winner of the Group guaranteed to give them a Geblitzt foaled this spring producing a filly by Shalaa (IRE) and is now two year olds ELOPING, I GOT 1 MRC Blue Diamond Stakes flying start in their new careers in foal to American Pharoah (USA), so the pedigree page of this Star CHILLS, SAMARA DANCER, and the first colt home in the at stud. Witness filly headed to the Gold Coast is one with the potential for BLUEBERRY HILL, CRACK THE Group 1 ATC Golden Slipper, considerable upside in the future making her a valuable broodmare he was the best and most As a multiple Group 1 winning CODE, ERAMOR and BLISS prospect when her racing days are done. three year old at WFA level and STREET. precocious juvenile colt of his the 2018 Longines’ World’s generation. He also covered a significant Highest Rated sprinter, Snitzel’s number of proven stakes Written By also covered a full champion son TRAPEZE ARTIST producing mares, which will book of mares, including a large is clearly the hottest young give him an enormous chance number of stakes winning and stallion to retire to achieve the success at stud stakes producing mares. to stud in years. he deserves. “He’s a gorgeous animal and “We are not alone in our reminds us all at Widden of the For those breeders looking for a glowing assessment of Trapeze brilliant General Nediym, who sharp, Magic Millions style two Artist as he was voted the ‘best shared many similarities with year-old, WRITTEN BY is simply looking’ and ‘most commercial’ Written By in terms of their two – Paul Lanskey and the ideal candidate. stallion by fifty assembled year old careers, early speed Helga Hueston with – Georgia Merrick with stud masters and bloodstock By Champion 2YO Sire Written and physical appearance,” Danny and Nina O’Brien – Geblitzt and foal – agents who toured the Hunter Tycoon, Written By retires as Thompson concluded. One of the world’s most exciting young sires

Champion First and Second Season Sire Champion Australian 3YO Sire (first crop) Current #1 Sire of individual Group winners

in Australia (20 /11/19)

Zoustar – represented at all major Australian yearling sales in 2020

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Lot 19 Colt Lot 72 Colt Lot 97 Filly Lot 100 Colt

ZOUSTAR X VIA STAR WITNESS X FASTNET ROCK X MORE THAN READY (USA) LAURENTINA, BY STRATUM AL JULHARA, BY FASTNET ARIANNE (NZ), BY ZABEEL (NZ) X ASSERTIVE EAGLE, BY ROCK DANEWIN Bred on similar Redoute’s Choice Filly bred on the same FASTNET ROCK / duplication as Zoustar’s Gr.2 Flemington Bred on the successful STAR WITNESS ZABEEL cross as four individual Group Three quarter brother to Group One winner HAUT BRION HER – a filly rated by / FASTNET ROCK cross which has One winners, including the champion Australian winner and successful HK the Waller stable as Group One class. produced Stakes winners OUR CROWN ATLANTIC JEWEL and other fillies performer EAGLE WAY. This colt is bred MISTRESS, PEARL STAR and the stakes PLANET ROCK and AVANTAGE. on the enormously successful MTR / performed 2YO EDEN ROC. Danehill cross that's delivered over 40 individual Stakes Winners includig eight Group One winners.

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