Caulfield Guineas Winning Sires - Where Are They Now?

Tara Madgwick - Thursday October 10

Worth a whopping $3million, the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas (1600m) run this Saturday in Melbourne, has been won by some outstanding colts over the years, so we thought we’d take a look at the fortunes of the past winners who have gone to stud in Australasia.

Champion sires Redoute’s Choice and Lonhro both won this iconic race, but we’ve started our look at the more recent winners of the race with  the 2009 winner Starspangledbanner, who went on to achieve worldwide fame and fortune the following year when dropped back to sprinting trips and sent to the Northern Hemisphere.

Starspangledbanner is a stalwart on the Coolmore roster.

He was rated the best turf sprinter in the world in 2010 after winning both the Group I Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot and then the Darley July Sprint Cup and kicked off a shuttle career for Coolmore at a fee of $44,000.

Starspangledbanner has had his ups and downs due to well documented fertility issues, but is such a good stallion perseverance has paid dividends and he remains on the Coolmroe roster and this year stands for the same fee at which he started back in 2011.

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Ole Kirk has had a flying start to his stud career.

The 2020 winner Ole Kirk has made a stunning start to his stud career at Vinery producing the winner of last week’s Group III ATC Breeders’ Plate in King Kirk and his daughter O ‘Ole was second in the Group III ATC Gimcrack Stakes.

G1 Caulfield Guineas Winners

Year

Winner

First Year at Stud

Currently

2023

Griff

Racing

Racing

2022

Golden Mile

2024 Darley $16,500

Darley $16,500

2021

Anamoe

2023 Darley $121,000

Darley $121,000

2020

Ole Kirk

2021 Vinery $55,000

Vinery $55,000

2019

Super Seth

2020 Waikato Stud, NZ $35,000

Waikato Stud, $45,000

2018

The Autumn Sun

2019 Arrowfield $77,000

Arrowfield $66,000

Out of service due to injury in 2024

2017

Mighty Boss

Deceased

2016

Divine Prophet

2017 Aquis $22,000

Highview Stud, NZ $9,000

2015

Press Statement

2016 Vinery $27,500

Novara Park, NZ $6,000

2014

Shooting to Win

2015 Darley $38,500

Oakland Park Stud, WA $9,900

2012

All Too Hard

2013 Vinery $66,000

Vinery $38,500

2011

Helmet

2012 Darley $33,000

Last seen standing in Germany 2018

2010

Anacheeva

2012 Chatswood Stud $8,800

Retired

2009

Starspangledbanner

2011 Coolmore $44,000

Coolmore $44,000

Footnote: The 2013 winner Long John was a gelding bred and raced by Godolphin.

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