Booker (horse) explained

Horsename:Booker
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]
Race: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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Booker Horse Profile. racingaustralia.horse. 14 October 2019.
  2. Web site: Booker Racenet Horse Profile. racenet.com.au. 14 October 2019.
  3. Web site: Booker cleans up Oakleigh Plate. racing.com. 14 October 2019.
  4. Web site: News Inglis Chairman’s results . racing.com . 28 July 2020.
  5. Web site: First time mothers in 2021 . breednet.com.au . 25 April 2022.