Our Graduates get called…Sire.
What do Coolmore, Arrowfield, Waikato, Widden, Windsor Park, Woodside Park, Aquis & Yulong have in common?
They all stand one or more of the 24 current, commercially active Arrowfield graduate sires.
Champion 3YO Switzerland and Caulfield Guineas winners Private Life & Super Seth (recently acquired in a multi-million-dollar deal) are all on Coolmore Stud’s roster.
Waikato Stud stands Ardrossan, Widden Stud has Anders & Doubtland and Windsor Park Stud is home to Spring Champion G1 winner Profondo.
Woodside Park Stud launched the stud career of dual Group 1 winner Celestial Legend in 2025. Aquis Farm stands Hong Kong Group 1 winner Stronger.
Yulong Stud is home to Group 1 winners Alabama Express and Tagaloa.
The Autumn Sun, Castelvecchio & Hitotsu, with 10 Group 1 victories among them, all stand at Arrowfield Stud.
Six of the 24 Arrowfield graduate stallions are Group 1 sires: Alabama Express, Castelvecchio, Master Of Design, Super Seth, The Autumn Sun and leading South African sire Rafeef.
And as it happens, five of those six Group 1 sires were purchased from Arrowfield’s Inglis Easter drafts.
Which puts the 37 colts lodged in the Big Barn at Riverside for Inglis Easter 2026 firmly on the radar of buyers in search of future stallion prospects.
Bloodstock Manager Jon Freyer suggests that buyers start by ticking these three colts on Arrowfield’s inspection card:
Lot 190: Maurice – Yearning colt
“Outstanding first foal from our wonderful racemare Yearning, a Snitzel daughter of the mighty Rising Romance and herself winner of the Group 1 Thousand Guineas. This is a top-class colt with size, strength, class and a lot of presence. Maurice gets the highest strike rate of Group 1 runners to foals of any active Australian stallion and Snitzel mares are proving to be gold. What a combination!”
Lot 280: Castelvecchio – Edgy Style (JPN) colt
“We all know the quality of Japanese bloodstock and here is a half-brother to the best Japanese colt of his generation Urban Chic, winner of the 2024 Kikuka Sho G1 where he earned a world rating of 117. Castelvecchio has already left Spring Champion Stakes winner El Castello and Aeliana, a 5-length winner of the Australian Derby and four-time Group 1 runner-up behind Autumn Glow, Via Sistina, Mr Brightside & Broadsiding. This is a really high quality individual who screams Derby colt, with a pedigree to take advantage of all the big prizemoney at 1600 metres and beyond.”
Lot 342: Snitzel – I Am Queen colt
“Snitzel is on track for his fifth Sires’ Premiership and it’s because of colts like this. His dam was very talented and hails from a successful international family, a long-term recipe for success with Snitzel. Think In The Congo, Wild Ruler and Switzerland. A simply gorgeous colt, he’s a forward, early type with plenty of scope. I am thinking the Breeders’ Plate in October…”
