16 Group 1 wins for Arrowfield’s roster in 2025/26

All four stallions with runners on Arrowfield’s current roster, plus 2025/26 Champion Sire-elect Snitzel and former sire Scissor Kick, were represented by elite winners this season, collectively siring 12 winners of 16 (21% of the total) Australian Group 1 races, all but one of them in Sydney & Melbourne. 

Those 12 horses have so far earned almost $50 million, with 9 sold as yearlings for a total of $4.22 million, and all bar the now-retired Baraqiel remain in training. 

AELIANA

Star Thoroughbreds' AELIANA is now a triple G1 winner of $4.4 million

AUTUMN BOY

AUTUMN BOY won the Caulfield & Rosehill Guineas for Glenn Ritchie

AUTUMN GLOW

Superstar AUTUMN GLOW's 3 G1 victories earned a Timeform Rating of 128

BARAQIEL

BARAQIEL (centre) crowned his brief career with victory in the Moir Stakes

CAMPIONE D'ITALIA

CAMPIONE D'ITALIA & Fireball are among Snitzel's 10 Group 1 2YO winners

Snitzel’s 6 individual Group 1 winners – notably from 5 different crops – is a career high for him, and their 6 Group 1 wins matches the tally achieved by Redzel, Trapeze Artist, Estijaab & Russian Revolution in 2017/18, the second of his five Premiership seasons. 

It’s also the best Group 1 season any Australian sire has put together since his own sire Redoute’s Choice in 2005/06, when Fashions Afield, God’s Own, Lotteria, Miss Finland, Nadeem & Snitzel himself all won Group 1 races.

Snitzel’s grandsire Danehill also posted six Australian Group 1 winners in 1998/99, but it was Zabeel who set the benchmark in that same season with 7 individual Group 1 winners: Bezeal Bay, Champagne, Dignity Dancer, Inaflury, Jezabeel, Might And Power & Sky Heights.

FIREBALL

FIREBALL is the 4th Arrowfield-sired Champagne S. winner in the last decade

IDLE FLYER

IDLE FLYER defeated a top field in the Queen of the Turf at Randwick

LAZZURA

Coolmore Classic winner LAZZURA was also 2nd in the All Aged S. G1

MARHOONA

MARHOONA added The Galaxy to her 2025 Golden Slipper victory

TRANSATLANTIC

TRANSATLANTIC (rail) simply would not be denied in the Toorak Handicap

PHOTOS: Bronwen Healy & Darren Tindale

The Autumn Sun’s superstar daughter Autumn Glow and dual Guineas-winning son Autumn Boy contributed 5 Group 1 victories this season, and Castelvecchio’s magnificent daughter Aeliana won twice in eight days at that level. 

Cosmic Crusader (by Maurice), Idle Flyer (by Dundeel) & Giga Kick (by Scissor Kick) added Group 1 successes at Ascot, Randwick & Flemington. 

The 16 Arrowfield-sired Group 1 wins were distributed across the season from September to April, but the roster dominated Sydney in the Autumn, winning 10 of the Carnival’s 22 major contests, including a treble on 21 March at Rosehill: Autumn Boy’s Rosehill Guineas, Aeliana’s Ranvet Stakes & Marhoona’s Golden Slipper.

Arrowfield stallions also supplied 10 of the 22 Group 1 victories achieved by the powerhouse Chris Waller stable in 2025/26.

Here’s the full list of Arrowfield-sired Australian Group 1 winners in 2025/26: