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.
Booker was sold for A$230,000 at the 2016 Inglis Australian Premier Yearling Sale.[2]
In 2019, Booker won the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield Racecourse at odds of 18/1.[3]
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.