ADELAIDE (IRE)
4 wins-1 at 2-from 1600m to 2050m, inc. MVRC WS Cox P.-G1, Arlington Park Secretariat S.-G1, Curragh Gallinule S.-G3, 2nd Belmont Derby-G1, Royal Ascot King Edward VII S.-G2, Longchamp Prix Hocquart-G2, 3d Longchamp Prix Niel-G2. Entered stud in 2015. Sire of 37 winners inc. Funstar (ATC Flight S.-G1).
Coolmore Stud
2021 FEE: $5,500
3367 Golden Highway
, Jerry's Plains, NSW, 2330
info@coolmore.com
www.coolmore.com
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Latest News
Funstar Sells for $2.7 Million
Funstar will join half sister Youngstar at Northern Farm in Japan after tonight selling to Katsumi Yoshida for a Digital Sale world record price of $2.7m in the Inglis Digital July (Early) Online Auction.
Adelaide 3YO Wins $80,000 Grafton Guineas
The $80,000 Grafton Guineas (1600m) on Wednesday drew a competitive field with a dominant victory going to promising gelding Tamilaide, a son of Galileo’s Cox Plate hero Adelaide (IRE).
G1 Winner Funstar to be Sold Through Inglis Digital
Arguably the rarest online offering the world has ever seen will be showcased through Inglis Digital next month when superstar G1 winner Funstar is offered for sale.
Cox Plate winner Adelaide (IRE) is not the highest profile sire on the Coolmore roster, but he does get his winners and progressive mare Duchess Adele upped the ante at Warwick Farm on Wednesday to post her first metropolitan success.
Funstar Turns Tables on Probabeel
Quality New Zealand filly Probabeel had race fitness on her side when beating Funstar first up in the Group I ATC Surround Stakes last month, but the tables were turned at Rosehill on Saturday when Funstar led all the way to win the Group II ATC Phar Lap Stakes (1500m) with Probabeel a brave second.
At her career debut in a 10-furlong maiden at Sandown back on April 24 1992, the 25/1 outsider User Friendly, thrashed the favoured pair of Juddmonte Farm’s royally-bred Shirly Valentine and Godolphin’s sensationally-related Nijinsky filly Jood but few would have foreseen the impact those three would have on the breed.
Like So You Think, Adelaide was a brilliant Cox Plate winner from the Sadlers Well sire line and among 20 sons of Galileo to produce Group 1 winners. Yearlings sold up to $130,000 in 2021.