Fans of Zoustar?

Tara Madgwick - Sunday September 4

Widden Stud’s Zoustar has many supporters out there and they would have been happy to wake this morning and see the champion son of Northern Meteor at the top of the Australian sire tables for general earnings and 3YO earnings.

Zoustar has made a slick start to the season producing two new Group winning fillies in Zougotcha and North Star Lass, who have won the first two legs of the Darley Princess Series.

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Zoustar’s three year-old crop are going to be a force to be reckoned with coming from his fifth season at stud when his fee rose from $44,000 to $60,500 off the back of Sunlight emerging as a first crop superstar.

Zoustar covered his biggest ever book of 243 mares that year, so the resulting foal crop of 172 live foals is packed with potential.

So far 71 have raced and 22 have won with 100 still waiting in the wings.

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Of those winners, nine are stakes performers and six of them stakes-winners with this crop showing the potential to be a game changer for Zoustar, whose fee has since shot up to $198,000 for this spring.

The beauty of Zoustar is his ability work with the Danehill line mares even though he is from a daughter of Redoute’s Choice.

Of the six stakes-winners so far from this potential vintage crop, four of them are from mares carrying Danehill blood with two of them- North Star Lass and Millane from mares by Snitzel, so they double up to Redoute’s Choice.

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The Northern Meteor sireline is very much in the ascendancy with Zoustar leading the way and fully booked this spring.

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