The early success of Japanese-bred stallions in Australia was on show today with the first 2YO trials of the season conducted at Royal Randwick. The first of the two trials was taken out by I Love Lucy, the Lee Curtis-trained daughter of Maurice (Jpn), just ahead of the Woodside Park Stud-bred and sold Little Miss Magic, a filly by Written Tycoon. The very next 2YO trial of the day saw [...]
In 2013, when Mark Rowsthorn took control of Woodside Park Stud from his father, just a month into the job one of his first major decisions was to purchase into the then promising young sire Written Tycoon. Recently crowned Champion Victorian Sire for a fourth consecutive year, such is the opinion of Written Tycoon that leading Hunter Valley-based Arrowfield Stud brokered a deal with the shareholders to stand the multiple [...]
Sunday’s victory by the unbeaten Contrail in the time-honoured G1 Japan Derby was the sixth winner in the past nine years for Champion Sire Deep Impact, further bringing attention to his only dual Australian G1-winning son at stud in Australia. A winner of the G1 Toorak Handicap and the G1 Emirates Stakes, as well a third in the G1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) book ended by consecutive second placed efforts in [...]
With “Tosen Stardom Drops From The Sky” forever etched in our minds from Matt Hill’s call of the 2017 G1 Emirates Stakes, the dual G1-winning son of Deep Impact has been extremely well received at stud as he is set to embark on his third season in the coming months. Covering a solid book of 123 mares in his first season, a select handful of those first-crop weanlings will be [...]
It’s been a busy week for the Woodside Park Stud team with plenty of phone calls about the stallions, confirming our drafts for upcoming sales, as well as monitoring the success of stallion progeny on the track. Written Tycoon had another good week when his highlight performance came on Saturday at Flemington when his 3yo daughter La Chevalee defeated a quality field which included many last start winners to record [...]
With the majority of stallion fee announcements for the 2020 southern hemisphere breeding season already made, Woodside Park Stud’s decision to reduce fees for the entire roster has been widely applauded by broodmare owners across the board. With up to 40% of breeders classified as hobbyist, our continual support of industry members during unprecedented times has given breeders the opportunity to access world class bloodlines at affordable prices which will [...]
The roster of stallions standing at Woodside Park Stud in 2020 includes G1 winning and G1 producing sire, Foxwedge, Tosen Stardom, a dual G1 winning son of world Champion sire Deep Impact plus Invincible Spirit’s highly rated two-year-old, Cable Bay and Written Tycoon’s fastest son at stud, Rich Enuff. Each stallion will have a reduction in fees to aid in supporting breeders in Victoria during these unprecedented times. With up [...]
With the Melbourne Spring Carnival in full flight, the Japanese raiders have impressed, by dominating the first two legs of one of Australian racing’s most celebrated G1 doubles and claiming two further G1 scalps through Fierce Impact. In the space of seven days the Japanese entire, Mer De Glace took out the G1 Caulfield Cup by producing an outstanding staying performance, a week before the brilliant mare Lys Gracieux, known [...]
The vagaries of thoroughbred racehorse breeding never fail to fascinate. How on occasions a 1000m specialist can produce a Cup aspirant, how a known mudlark can throw a confirmed firm tracker, how a perfect specimen can sire a poorly conformed speedster. How Woodside Park Stud's handsome but plain bay Tosen Stardom can sire foals with bling. And not just some bling... plenty of it! Of course the answers are always [...]
Like their sire, when Tosen Stardom dropped from the sky in his emphatic G1 Emirates Stakes victory, Tosen Stardom’s first foals have also dropped and are now creating their own hype. With reports coming in of the quality he has stamped his foals with, as a group they are showing good bone, plenty of strength and correct legs. Having syndicated the brilliant dual G1 son of Deep Impact during his [...]
