Booker (horse)

Booker
SireWritten Tycoon (AUS)
GrandsireIglesia (AUS)
DamNoondie (AUS)
DamsireFlying Spur (AUS)
SexMare
Foaled2014
CountryAustralia
ColourBay or Brown
BreederAG Freebairn
OwnerBM & MM Griffiths, NS & GC Psaltis, WH & AM Rigg, AG & EL Freebairn
TrainerMatthew Ellerton & Simon Zahra (2017-2019)
Gerald Ryan (2020)
Record22: 4–4–1
EarningsA$ 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

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Booker was sold for A$230,000 at the 2016 Inglis Australian Premier Yearling Sale.[2]

Racing career

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In 2019, Booker won the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield Racecourse at odds of 18/1.[3]

Breeding career

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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

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Pedigree of Booker (AUS) 2014[6]
Sire
Written Tycoon (AUS)
2002
Iglesia (AUS)
1995
Last Tycoon Try My Best
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

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  1. ^ "Booker Horse Profile". racingaustralia.horse. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Booker Racenet Horse Profile". racenet.com.au. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Booker cleans up Oakleigh Plate". racing.com. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  4. ^ "News Inglis Chairman's results". racing.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  5. ^ "First time mothers in 2021". breednet.com.au. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  6. ^ "Booker Horse Profile". pedigreequery.com. Retrieved 22 September 2022.