King Colorado (AUS)
Widden Victoria
2025 FEE: $16,500
A superbly appointed farm with spacious, safe paddocks, Widden Stud Victoria is the perfect location from which to base mares for the Victorian breeding season. Widden Victoria offers the full suite of bloodstock services, from covering mares and foaling down right through to weaning, sales preparation, breaking in and pre-training. The key systems and processes Widden Stud has used to achieve premium results from our Hunter Valley farm over more than a century have been brought into practice in Victoria.
56 Mt Eliza Road , Kerrie, VIC, 3434info@widden.com
www.widden.com
+61 (03) 5428 5168
Latest News
Widden Victoria Open the Gates
It was a chilly morning at Widden Victoria last Friday but the stallion talent was hot with Southport Tycoon making his debut in the very same parade ring in which his sire Written Tycoon started his stud career back in 2007.
Widden Victoria have announced the arrival of the first foal by their Group One winning two-year-old King Colorado.
Flashy Grey Kingman Colt Wins Irish 2,000 Guineas
Juddmonte Farms have been firing through spring of the euro flat season and they produced the quinella overnight at The Curragh with Kingman colts finishing one and two in the Group I Irish 2,000 Guineas (1m) and leading the way was Field of Gold, who was purchased as a weanling for €530,000.
Widden Stud Announce Purchase of Sun Stud
At the Widden Stud Victoria open day last Friday a quality roster of nine stallions were on show and breeders were also given the good news that Widden have now purchased what was Sun Stud and the Thompson family are very much committed to the Victorian breeding industry going forward.
Pedigree Watch - New 2YO SW Kingman
Outstanding sire Kingman produced a new juvenile stakes-winner overnight with promising filly January winning the Listed Churchill Stakes (7 ½ f) at Tipperary and interestingly she is from a daughter of Fastnet Rock.
Kingman Group Treble - Sire on Fire
Last week we highlighted the deeds of Kingman, whose Group I winning son King Colorado stands his first season at Widden Victoria this spring, and over the weekend the Juddmonte Farm based sire was in hot form siring a treble of new Group winners.
The first Australian Group 1 winning 2YO to retire to a Victorian Stud in 4 years.
Born in Australia, but conceived in the Northern Hemisphere, King Colorado is also the only Group I winning 2YO colt by Juddmonte Farm’s outstanding stallion Kingman, the sire of 75 stakes-winners worldwide, 10 of them Group I winners.