Our Graduates get called…Champion.

Three new Champions, all purchased from Inglis Easter, marked Arrowfield’s 40th year of breeding & selling success in 2025.

Lady Shenandoah, winner of the Group 1 Flight Stakes, Surround Stakes & Coolmore Classic was the season’s Champion Australian 3YO Filly and remains in training to target major prizes in 2026.

Caulfield Guineas G1 winner Super Seth added New Zealand’s Champion Second Season Sire title to the First Season Sires’ Premiership he’d claimed a year earlier. His subsequent multi-million sale to Coolmore was a tremendous result for his owners inluding Waikato Stud. 

Coolmore Stud S. G1 winner Switzerland was Australia’s Champion 3YO, headed the international 3YO ratings in the Sprint category and served his first book of mares.

They join a list of Arrowfield Graduate Champions that began with Dr Grace, ANZ Champion 3YO of 1990 after winning the Australian Derby G1 & Chipping Norton S. G1. He added two more Group 1 victories, in the Tancred Stakes & Underwood Stakes, then retired to Woodlands Stud where he sired 11 stakeswinners including three Group 1 winners from his first 3 crops before his premature death. 

Every decade since then has featured multiple Arrowfield graduate stars:

• Horses of the Year Lankan Rupee, Makybe Diva, Stepitup & Weekend Hussler
• Champion 2YOs Miss Finland, Catbird, Estijaab, Fashions Afield, Forensics & Invader
• Champion 3YOs Autumn Angel, Castelvecchio, Danewin, Hitotsu, Miss Finland, Shoals & The Autumn Sun
• Champion Sprinters Alverta, Giga Kick, Hareeba, Kenvain, Primacy & Sweet Idea.

But right now, the most important list for buyers is Arrowfield’s 65-strong draft for Inglis Easter 2026. Bloodstock Manager Jon Freyer gets the ball rolling with his pick of Arrowfield’s fillies to emulate Lady Shenandoah:

Lot 43: Snitzel – Response filly 
“As good a racemare as dual Group 1 winner Response was, she’s probably a better broodmare. This filly is the final full sibling to Golden Slipper winner Estijaab and to millionaire Remarque, and she’s cast in a similar mould to both those outstanding sprinters. This is a pedigree breeders will salivate over and a type that trainers will love – she’s all class.”

Lot 89: I Am Invincible – Shoals filly
“In a stunning Easter catalogue, this  may be the best filly pedigree in the book. Shoals was Champion 3YO Filly and among the best older sprinters in the country – after all, she did start favourite in an Everest. This filly’s full sister is a Group 3 winner at Flemington and was headed to the Group 1 Lightning Stakes before being injured. This is a glorious filly who will not be out of place in any broodmare band in the world when her racing days are over.”

Lot 209: The Autumn Sun – All That Jazz (SAF)  filly
“Autumn Glow is by The Autumn Sun from a Champion Sprinter by Var. This filly is likewise by The Autumn Sun and her dam is a daughter of Val De Ra, also a Champion Sprinter by Var. If that alone is not a recipe for success, wait till you see this filly. She’s a super mover with great depth, quality and strength. Few can match Autumn Glow on physique, but she is in the ball park.”

Lot 431 : Dundeel – Miravalle filly 
“Dundeel has had a marvellous run in the last season or two with fillies like Femminile, Idle Flyer and Konasana among a host of Group performers. Here is a magnificent filly bred on the same cross as Super Seth. Her dam is a Group-winning half-sister to the best filly of her generation Yankee Rose, the dam of Japanese champion Liberty Island. This is a very deep, world-class pedigree and this filly has the structure & presence to match.”