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Dynamic 4yo mare ZOU DE MOON (Zoustar x Moon De French) was turned out in magnificent order first-up from a spell by our Newcastle based trainer JASON DEAMER, and jet pilot Ashley Morgan then gave our mare a “pearler” of a ride to record a dominant 2.56 lengths win in the 2022 Maclean Bowling Club MACLEAN CUP the $35,000 feature race on the final day of the 2022 Grafton Cup Carnival.

The following story is about the unbelievable start to a stud career by JUSTIFY (USA). Coolmore Stud stands JUSTIFY, a son of Scat Daddy, never raced at two, and he famously became the first unraced 2-year-old since Apollo back in 1882 to win the Gr1 Kentucky Derby. JUSTIFY is already represented by a Group 2 Winner in Europe and a Group 3 Winner in North America plus a Listed runner-up from his first crop of 2-year-olds. As at 21st July, JUSTIFY has had 11 runners to date and his stats are amazing:

JUST CINDY (2f Justify x Jenda’s Agenda, by Proud Citizen) gave JUSTIFY (USA) a second group stakes winner with a victory in the Gr3 Schuylerville Stakes 1200m. The first Group race run for juveniles fillies in North America in 2022, so JUST CINDY has precocity as well as ability. From 10 runners, JUSTIFY has four (4) winners and four (4) placegetters including three (3) stakes horses.That group includes the stakes performing trio of Group 2 Airlie Stud Stakes winner Statuette, Group3 Schuylerville Stakes winner Just Cindy, and Listed Fasig-Tipton Futurity runner-up Tahoma.

Lightly raced three year-old Majestic Colour (3g So You think x Vivid Diamonte, by Fastnet Rock) extended his winning run to four on the trot at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday with a commanding victory in the $200,000 Group 3 Winx Stakes (1600m), adding even further progeny racetrack success to an already stellar season for his super sire SO YOU THINK. Majestic Colour became the 43rd Stakes Winner for SO YOU THINK and importantly he is the 12th Australian Stakes Winner this season.

Arrowfield Stud shuttle stallion SHALAA (IRE) has had a busy season with his juveniles and Quang Tri added to that success scoring in the VRC Taj Ross Final LR (1600m) at Flemington. SHALAA has under-lined his value as an outcross source of juvenile talent, now with his 4th Australian 2YO Stakes Winner Quang Tri is also the ninth stakes-winner worldwide for Shalaa and is one of 13 Australian juvenile winners this season for the Group 1 winning son of Invincible Spirit.

My Yankee Girl by American Pharoah (USA), is a filly on the up and franked her form when winning the $150,000 VRC Rivette Final (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday. My Yankee Girl powered home from back in the field to win by a long head taking her overall record to four wins and three placings from nine starts with prizemoney topping $227,000.

Coolmore Stud’s USA based operation Ashford Farm have announced they will not be sending to Australia their superstar Northern Hemisphere Sires AMERICAN PHAROAH (USA) and JUSTIFY (USA) this breeding season, with the official decision taken to “rest both stallions” with a possible view to their return in 2023. Both sires are “white hot” in the Northern Hemisphere, so it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to conclude that the Irish based powerhouse consider their US based operation’s “breed shaping” assets “far too valuable” to be risked shuttling to Australia in 2022.

The superbly bred JUAN DIVA left it until late in life to break through at stakes grade, which she achieved with a fighting win in the Gr3 Eureka Stud WJ Healy Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm. Trained by the Dynamic Father and Son combination of Richard and William Freedman and wearing the Trelawney Stud colours, JUAN DIVA advanced her record to five wins, four seconds, and a third from 20 starts with earnings of $341,940.

Coolmore Stud have an exciting first-season sire on their hands with their unbeaten racetrack superstar and USA Triple Crown hero JUSTIFY represented by his first black-type winner when STATUETTE maintained her unbeaten record winning the Group 2 Airlie Stud Stakes at the Curragh. Coolmore must be rubbing their hands together with glee with sensational sire JUSTIFY. 8 Runners: 4 Winners - 3 Placed - 1 SW and 1 SP = Wow Factor Start to his career