Zoustar Cracks 200 Australian Winners for Season

Our champion sire Zoustar was the world’s leading sire of winners in 2023 and passed a milestone on Friday when racking up his 200^th Australian winner of the season and shortly after his 201^st!

Bringing up the 200 in style was the Tony and Calvin McEvoy trained four year-old gelding Dillinger, who blitzed his rivals to win the 1500m Benchmark 64 event by six lengths as favourite.

A maiden winner in January 2023, Dillinger has taken a while to find his second win, but two recent placings put the writing on the wall.

Dillinger wins in a romp

The son of Zoustar records his first victory in 535 days for @mcevoymitchell @beau_mertens pic.twitter.com/F8lA1M9AEB

— Racing.com (@Racing) July 5, 2024

A $250,000 Inglis Premier purchase from Edinburgh Park for McEvoy Mitchell / Belmont Bloodstock, Dillinger is one of five winners from five to race from well bred mare Sticky Fingers, who comes from the family of Group I winers Criterion and Comin’ Through.

Zoustar becomes only the second stallion in history to achieve the feat of siring 200 plus Australian winners in a season with I Am Invincible doing it twice. He sired 208 winners in the 2020/2021 season to set the all-time record and then 202 winners last season.

With three more weeks of the season to come Zoustar is a real chance of breaking his record with his seasonal winner to runner strike rate running at 55.2%.

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