Zoustar confirmed for reverse shuttle to Tweenhills Stud in 2019

Australia's exciting first-season sire Zoustar, who is part-owned by Qatar Racing, will reverse shuttle to Tweenhills Stud for the 2019 breeding season.

Zoustar will cover a limited book of northern hemisphere mares and his fee will be announced at a later date.

The son of Northern Meteor stands at Widden Stud in New South Wales and has made a blistering start to his stud career having supplied the Group 2 winners Sunlight and Lean Mean Machine.

Another leading light from his first crop has been Zousain, a winner of the Group 2 Champagne Classic who was last seen finishing second behind the exciting The Autumn Sun in the JJ Atkins Plate.

The success of Zoustar's first runners has translated to results in the sales ring and he has also broken the all-time prize-money record for an Australasian champion first-season sire.

Trained by Chris Waller throughout his career, he won six times including the Golden Rose and Coolmore Stud Stakes - both elite contests - en route to being crowned champion three-year-old sprinter.

David Redvers, owner of Tweenhills Stud and racing manager to Sheikh Fahad Al Thani, said: "The opportunity to stand the sensational champion Zoustar at Tweenhills is the most exciting thing I have been involved with in my career.

"The buzz surrounding this horse and what he has achieved in Australia is deafening and to be able to stand him alongside Qatar Racing’s other sensational young stallions is an honour and a challenge that my team and I relish.

"From the first moment Sheikh Fahad and I saw Zoustar at Flemington we were convinced that we were witnessing something special and had to be involved. He has that rare mixture of precocity, natural speed, turn of foot, pedigree and physical presence you see in only a very few genuinely top flight stallions. We were spellbound and have been 'all-in' ever since.

"I’m not sure European breeders have ever been offered access to such an exciting Australian stallion at this point in his career and news has been received with tremendous support and enthusiasm from Europe’s leading farms."

Antony Thompson, owner of Widden Stud, added: "Zoustar standing at Tweenhills provides a rare chance to showcase one of our hottest young stallions in Europe.

"We were always confident that he is a stallion who would leave his mark and see great success in both hemispheres. He is a beautiful looking horse, a champion racehorse with a great temperament, he stamps his stock who are every inch like their sire, and he has the potential to even surpass his own magnificent and much missed sire, Northern Meteor."

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