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First Foal for Australian Cup winner Fifty Stars

Tara Madgwick - Monday February 13

Sea the Stars stallion Fifty Stars (IRE) had a successful racing career in Australia for the Lindsay Park team , notably winning the 2020 Group I VRC Australian Cup, before retiring to stud in the Northern Hemisphere to be a National Hunt sire and his first foal has delighted her owner.

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This filly is the first foal out of talented jumping mare Lady Breffni, who struck in the valuable I.N.H. Stallion Owners EBF Novice Handicap Hurdle Series Final at Fairyhouse in 2021 and was also placed in Graded company when second in the Kerry Group Irish EBF Shannon Spray Mares Novice Hurdle at Limerick for Joseph O'Brien.

Fifty Stars retired to Sunnyhill in partnership with Jack Cantillon's Bloodstock.Racing for the 2022 season and he will stand his second at an unchanged fee of €3,000. 

Fifty Stars

Fifty Stars wins his Australian Cup -- image Grant Courtney

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