Zoustar (Aus) (Northern Meteor {Aus}-Zouzou {Aus}, by Redoute's Choice {Aus}) will shuttle to Tweenhills Stud in Gloucestershire for the 2019 breeding season. The speedy Zoustar, winner of the G1 Coolmore Stud S. and G1 Golden Rose S. in 2013 and Australia's champion 3-year-old, currently heads that country's first-season sires table by earnings, his tally of over A$3-million almost double that of closest pursuer Spirit of Boom (Aus). His progeny are headed by the Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner and G1 Golden Slipper-placed Sunlight (Aus), the G2 Sires' Produce S. winner Lean Mean Machine (Aus), and the Sires' Produce runner-up and Group 1-placed Zousain (Aus). Zoustar's yearlings have this year averaged A$185,257, and his yearlings have sold for up to A$1-million. He stands at Widden Stud in New South Wales.
Qatar Racing bought into Zoustar during his racing career and have heavily supported the horse in the sales ring. Tweenhills Stud owner and Qatar Racing manager David Redvers said, “The opportunity to stand the sensational champion Zoustar at Tweenhills is the most exciting thing I have been involved with in my career. The buzz surrounding this horse and what he has achieved in Australia is deafening and to be able to stand him alongside Qatar Racing's other sensational young stallions is an honour and a challenge that my team and I relish.”
“From the first moment Sheikh Fahad and I saw Zoustar at Flemington we were convinced that we were witnessing something special and had to be involved. He has that rare mixture of precocity, natural speed, turn of foot, pedigree and physical presence you see in only a very few genuinely top-flight stallions. We were spellbound and have been 'all-in' ever since.”
“I'm not sure European breeders have ever been offered access to such an exciting Australian stallion at this point in his career and news has been received with tremendous support and enthusiasm from Europe's leading farms.”
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