Coolmore Australia stallion Adelaide sires first-crop Group 1 winner

The 2014 Cox Plate hero Adelaide supplied his first Group 1 winner at stud when his daughter Funstar landed the Flight Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Bred and part-owned by John Sheather, the three-year-old filly is the second Group 1 winner out of the Irish-bred Danehill mare Starspangled, along with last year's Queensland Oaks heroine Youngstar. She was also third in the Queensland Derby and a length second to Winx in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes over 1m2f at Flemington last October.

Funstar has won four of her five starts to date for the Chris Waller stable and came into the Flight Stakes off the back of winning the Group 2 Tea Rose Stakes at Randwick.

Her dam Starspangled, who is in foal to Pierro, was saddled by Aidan O'Brien to win a fillies handicap at Cork over an extended mile and is a daughter of champion racemare User Friendly.

Funstar was sourced as a yearling by agent Anton Koolman for A$80,000 (£43,900/€49,300) from Bowness Stud at last year's Inglis Easter Sale.

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Adelaide is an eight-year-old son of Galileo and the 2007 Queen Mary Stakes scorer Elletelle and was trained by Aidan O'Brien to win twice at the highest level, with his other Group 1 success coming in the Secretariat Stakes at Arlington Park.

The middle-distance star was unlucky not to record a third elite win when going down by a neck to Mr Speaker in the Belmont Derby.

Adelaide stands at the modest fee of A$11,000 at Coolmore Australia in Jerry's Plains and has been well supported in his first four seasons, covering over 400 mares.

Meanwhile at Flemington, Kings Will Dream won the Turnbull Stakes to become the first top-level winner for the Racing Post Trophy winner and sire Casamento, the former Darley stallion who relocated to Sunnyhill Stud as a dual-purpose stallion last November.

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