Booker | |
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Sire | Written Tycoon (AUS) |
Grandsire | Iglesia (AUS) |
Dam | Noondie (AUS) |
Damsire | Flying Spur (AUS) |
Sex | Mare |
Foaled | 2014 |
Country | Australia |
Colour | Bay or Brown |
Breeder | AG Freebairn |
Owner | BM & MM Griffiths, NS & GC Psaltis, WH & AM Rigg, AG & EL Freebairn |
Trainer | Matthew Ellerton & Simon Zahra (2017-2019) Gerald Ryan (2020) |
Record | 22: 4–4–1 |
Earnings | A$ 856,150[1] |
Major wins | |
Thousand Guineas Prelude (2017) Kevin Hayes Stakes (2018) Oakleigh Plate (2019) |
Booker (foaled 26 August 2014) is a Group 1 winning Australian thoroughbred racehorse.
Background
Booker was sold for A$230,000 at the 2016 Inglis Australian Premier Yearling Sale.[2]
Racing career
In 2019, Booker won the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield Racecourse at odds of 18/1.[3]
Breeding career
After retiring from racing in 2020, Booker was sold to Coolmore Stud as a broodmare for A$1,600,000.[4]
Booker gave birth to her first foal in 2021, a colt by stallion I Am Invincible.[5] The colt was named Railway Man and had his first start when unplaced at Randwick on the 31 January 2024.
Pedigree
Sire Written Tycoon (AUS) 2002 |
Iglesia (AUS) 1995 |
Last Tycoon | Try My Best |
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Mill Princess | |||
Yodells | Marscay | ||
Yodelling Lady | |||
Party Miss (AUS) 1991 |
Kenmare | Kalamoun | |
Belle Of Ireland | |||
Miss Entertainer | Vain | ||
Viveza | |||
Dam Noondie (AUS) 2008 |
Flying Spur (AUS) 1992 |
Danehill | Danzig |
Razyana | |||
Rolls | Mr. Prospector | ||
Grand Luxe | |||
Creatrix (AUS) 1999 |
Umatilla | Miswaki | |
Dancing Show | |||
Rehearsed | Century | ||
Gaelic Dancer |
References
- ^ "Booker Horse Profile". racingaustralia.horse. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "Booker Racenet Horse Profile". racenet.com.au. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "Booker cleans up Oakleigh Plate". racing.com. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "News Inglis Chairman's results". racing.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ^ "First time mothers in 2021". breednet.com.au. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ^ "Booker Horse Profile". pedigreequery.com. Retrieved 22 September 2022.