Arrowfield Stud

Australian champion sire Snitzel (Aus) brought up a milestone 150th stakes winner when the Ciaron Maher-trained Saint Emilion (Aus) won the Listed Geelong Classic for three-year-olds on Wednesday. Now 22, Snitzel--who stands for A$247,500 (around €150,000) at Arrowfield Stud near Scone in New South Wales--was described as "a marvel" by Arrowfield bloodstock manager Jon Freyer in the aftermath of Saint Emilion's win, following on from recent triumphs for Lady Shenandoah (Aus) in the G1 Flight Stakes and Makarena (Aus) in the G2 Golden Pendant. "He's got it and there are...

Australian Group 1-winning sprinter Marabi (Aus) (I Am Invincible {Aus}) topped the Magic Millions August Virtual Sale when selling for $2.4 million to Arrowfield Stud. Marabi made a huge impression on the racetrack winning her first seven starts culminating with victory in the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate. She is a half-sister to Group 1 Victorian Oaks winner Aristia--a mare whose first foal sold for $725,000 earlier this year. Marabi is in foal to Zoustar and will present her new buyer with her first foal in the next couple of weeks....

Champion and Group 1 sire The Autumn Sun (Aus) (Redoute's Choice {Aus}) will miss the 2024 Southern Hemisphere breeding season as he continues to recover from a pelvic injury, Arrowfield Stud announced on X. "Leading young sire The Autumn Sun will miss the 2024 breeding season after sustaining a pelvic injury in his paddock in late March," the stud said in a statement. "He has been under close veterinary care and restricted to box rest at Arrowfield since that time. A scan earlier this week revealed his injury is healing...

I Am Invincible (Aus) and Snitzel (Aus) have been confirmed as the two most expensive stallions standing in Australia in 2024 after their covering fees for the Southern Hemisphere breeding season were announced on Tuesday. The sire of multiple Group 1-winning sprinters such as Imperatriz (Aus), Brazen Beau (Aus) and Home Affairs (Aus), Yarraman Park Stud resident I Am Invincible remains the most expensive stallion standing in Australia, despite having had his fee reduced from A$302,500 (around €183,000) to A$275,000 (€167,000). I Am Invincible is on course to be crowned...

Arrowfield Stud founder and chairman John Messara has long taken a global view when it comes to breeding and has formed strong strategic links with fellow major breeders in Europe and Japan. He recently spoke with our colleagues at The Thoroughbred Report on the perceived stagnation of the Australian Pattern race programme and now shares with Emma Berry his wider views on racing and breeding in various jurisdictions and the decision to send a special mare to be based in Europe. EB: You have had associations with European entities before,...

by Jessica Owers and Oz Wedmore, TDNAusNZ Case Clay was in the headlines last month with his announcement that, after 20 years with Three Chimneys Farm, he was going solo. This week he finds himself on the Gold Coast, and we caught up with him to learn a little more about the next chapter of his career. Nearly 20 years ago, American bloodstock agent Case Clay did an interview with a local Kentucky newspaper. He said that succession, complicated as it was when it came to family business, didn't always...

While 2021 marks the end of an era for Australia's Arrowfield Stud, with the last yearlings by its breed-shaping sire Redoute's Choice (Aus) going through the ring, it has likewise signaled the start of another, with young shuttler Shalaa (Ire) getting off to a bright start with his first Southern Hemisphere-bred crop headed by the Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Shaquero (Aus). Arrowfield will offer yearlings by both at the upcoming Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Apr. 6 and 7, and we caught up with Arrowfield's John Messara to...

Arrowfield Stud's Snitzel (Aus) (Redoute's Choice {Aus}-Snippets' Lass {Aus}, by Snippets {Aus}) has become just the sixth sire in the 137-year history of the Australian Sires' Premiership to earn four or more consecutive champion sire titles. With the current season Down Under wrapping up on Friday, Snitzel joins his grandsire Danehill (who won nine titles, six consecutively, in the 2000s), Star Kingdom (1960s), Delville Wood (1950s) and Valais and his son Heroic (1920s and 30s) as sires to earn a quartet of premiership titles. Snitzel's achievement is made all the...

Within the backdrop of a pandemic that has reshaped the lives of people all over the world, the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, kicks off Apr. 7. It will be an auction unlike any witnessed before. A day after an announcement from Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison Mar. 25, further tightening restrictions on public gatherings in response to the coronavirus outbreak, officials at Inglis announced that the Easter Sale would go forward in two rounds, the first as a digital auction only, with round two to take place in conventional...