ITHADTOBEZOU INCHES ZOUSTAR CLOSER TO RECORD

A metropolitan treble on Wednesday for Widden Stud’s Zoustar, that was highlighted by Cambridge Stud's Ithadtobezou winning impressively at Sandown, has inched the stallion closer to an Australian record.

The winners boosted his tally to 206 Australian winners and that is within reach of I Am Invincible’s record breaking tally of 208 set in the 2020/2021 season.

With seven days of the season to come, it’s going to go down to the wire for Zoustar in his bid to make history with two new winners equalling the record and three earning him a place in history.

His two new winners of the season today were three year-old gelding Zouripper,  and talented four year-old mare Ithadtobezou, who ended a frustrating run of minor placings to return to the winners list at Sandown.

The Danny O’Brien trained mare runs for Cambridge Stud and was a $340,000 Inglis Easter purchase from them from Kia Ora Stud.

She won back to back races at Canterbury back at the start of 2023 when trained in Sydney by John Thompson, however lost form subsequently and appears to have gotten her mojo back since transferring south to the care of O’Brien and won a Benchmark 70 event over 1300m today as favourite.

All eyes will be on Zoustar runners over the next week as we wait and watch to see what unfolds!

Story by Tara Madgwick for Breednet.com.au

Pic by Racing Photos