What Does a Good Zoustar Look Like?

Tara Madgwick - Thursday January 7

As we head into the sales season every yearling buyer thinks they know what they are looking for, but do they? This new Breednet innovation seeks to shed light on what the best progeny of a sire looked like as yearlings so we can maybe learn a lesson going forward, this time we look at one of the great Magic Millions success stories in Zoustar.

A $140,000 Magic Millions purchase back in 2012, Widden Stud’s Zoustar has established himself as one of the leading younger sires in the country and the best sire son of ill-fated Northern Meteor.

His yearling crop this year comes from his largest ever foal crop conceived when his fee moved up to $60,500 following his first four seasons at $44,000, so as a result his progeny are plentiful and top class in 2021.

From our data base of images we have put together a selection Zoustar stakes-winners pictured as yearlings that offer some real insight into his offspring.

Click here for the full gallery of Zoustar SW's as yearlings.

A beautiful thoroughbred with a muscular sprinters physique and refined head, Zoustar gets sprinter milers highlighted by his champion filly Sunlight, with only one of his 16 stakes-winners successful beyond a mile.

His stakes-winners are split evenly between fillies and colts with three of the latter now all at stud in Zousain, Lean Mean Machine and Sun City.

Below are all the Zoustar Magic Millions yearlings with images currently uploaded, which ones are the stakes-winners of the future?

Click here  for the full gallery of Zoustar MM yearlings with images uploaded.
Click here to see the previous story in this series on Fastnet Rock.
 
Click here for the story on Snitzel.

Click here for the story on So You Think.

Click here for the story on Written Tycoon.


 

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