Our Graduates get called…Fast.
Here’s champion jockey James McDonald speaking after Arrowfield Easter graduate Switzerland’s dominant 2.75 length victory in the Coolmore Stud S. G1, covering Flemington’s straight six course in 1:08.30 – a 20-year record for the race:
“He’s so push-button…such a talented colt, he’s got gears to turn…we were cooking with gas, he went super…an incredible turn of foot, and he can sustain it for a long time.”
In a word – fast.
Arrowfield’s obsessive focus on that championship speed, exercised across ages and distances, has produced 160 graduate Group 1 wins over four decades, including:
- Almost every Group 1 Australian sprint (1000m-1400m) – including the T.J. Smith, Manikato, Champions Sprint, All-Aged, A.J. Moir, Futurity, Galaxy, Lightning, Newmarket, Oakleigh, William Reid, C. F. Orr, Robert Sangster, Stradbroke & Doomben 10,000.
- All 5 Australian Group 1 2YO races, and all of them at least twice – including 7 Golden Slippers.
- 38 3YO Guineas, Oaks & Derbys – including 5 Caulfield Guineas, 5 Royal Randwick Guineas & 6 Australian Guineas, plus 4 Flight Stakes and 6 Spring Champion Stakes.
For buyers who put “fast” at the top of their wish-list, Bloodstock Manager Jon Freyer picks out three yearlings in Arrowfield’s 2026 Inglis Easter draft:
Lot 108: Maurice (JPN) – Smirnova filly
“This filly looks a lot like her mother Smirnova who was so, so fast. She started her career with three on the bounce including her maiden win defeating multiple Group winner and Group 1 performer I Am Me before finishing third to Mazu in the Darby Munro. This good-looking filly is big, strong and mature with lovely depth and she looks very fast. Bred on a Werk A+++ eNick, she also comes from a high-class family of sprinters and two-year-olds.”
Lot 130: Dundeel – Super Cash colt
“It may surprise some just how successful Dundeel has been with his two-year-olds. He’s had 7 juvenile stakeswinners, three of them at Group 1 level winning five Group 1 races including the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes and the Champagne Stakes twice. Add to that winners of the Golden Rose, Caulfield Guineas and Randwick Guineas and he is most definitely a sire capable of getting the next big colt to go to stud like Super Seth and Castelvecchio. This colt may be the one. He is a classy, strong, mature type with a great shoulder who looks more Slipper than Guineas. And Super Cash was brilliantly fast – she toweled up Chautauqua, Hellbent, Lankan Rupee and Merchant Navy in the Rubiton Stakes over 1100 metres.”
Lot 230: Gun Runner (USA) – Been Studying Her (USA) colt
“What a stallion Gun Runner is. After leaving a remarkable 6 Group 1 winners in his first crop, he has continued on his merry way with the likes of Champion Sierra Leone now at stud on a fee of US$75,000. Been Studying Her was a fast filly on the So Cal circuit. She won her first two starts as a two-year-old including a stake before leading up in the Grade 1 Chandelier and finishing fourth as a 3/1 chance. This is a stylish colt who reminds me very much of his sire. He may not look obvious to the Australian eye, but the proof of the pudding is there. Our other two Gun Runner colts are also worth a look.”
