{"id":194627,"date":"2025-12-21T08:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/194627\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:06:13","slug":"unbeaten-2-2million-zoustar-filly-poised-for-black-type-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/194627\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbeaten $2.2million Zoustar Filly Poised for Black Type in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highest priced yearling by champion sire Zoustar sold in 2024 when fetching $2.2million at Inglis Easter, unbeaten filly Plaintiff took another step forward at Randwick on Saturday keeping her record perfect with three wins in as many starts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plaintiff wins again at Randwick - image Bradley Photos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/breednet-images-plaintiff-randwick-28816.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 400px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Consigned by Widden and purchased by James Harron Bloodstock for Fairway Thoroughbreds owner John Camilleri, Plaintiff is trained by Peter Snowden, who has taken his time with the valuable filly.<\/p>\n<p>She won on debut in November at Rosehill before taking a Benchmark 72 event over 1200m at the same venue earlier this month before stepping up to 1300m for another Benchmark 72 today.<\/p>\n<p>Ridden quietly by Chad Schofield, Plaintiff produced a powerful finishing run that saw her reel in the leaders and win by half a length with her three wins to date netting just shy of $250,000 in prizemoney.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Now this is a smart filly!<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff makes it 3 from 3 with a big closing effort under Chad Schofield ??????<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SchofieldChad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SchofieldChad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SnowdenRacing1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SnowdenRacing1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jWUeKt12kr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jWUeKt12kr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 7HorseRacing ?? (@7horseracing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/7horseracing\/status\/2002218757834330141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She got a lot out of today,&#8221; said Peter Snowden, who will send the filly for a short summer break with the goal of chasing Black Type in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both starts she has been on speed and floating a bit when she got to the front.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today it would have been nice for her to get that nice run off the speed to see if she has something to run down, how solid she can be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was really rapt and it was what I wanted to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plaintiff had some happy connections today - image Bradley Photos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/breednet-images-plaintiff-owners-randwick-28817.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 400px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chad Schofield is the third jockey to win on Plaintiff with a different rider in the saddle for each of her wins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is a lovely filly,&#8221; Schofield said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is still very new at it all. I am surprised how green she was really as she is bombproof to ride and is going to be a beautiful horse next prep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This preparation she has done an amazing job to win her first three, given how much improvement I think is in the filly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"What will 2026 bring for Plaintiff? - image Bradley Photos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/breednet-images-plaintiff-pose-28818.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 400px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bred by Widden and partners, Plaintiff is the second winner from three foals to race from Group I Tatts Tiara winner Prompt Response, who won over $1.6million with a resume packed with additional Group wins and placings.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, she did not have another foal after Plaintiff and died earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The highest priced yearling by champion sire Zoustar sold in 2024 when fetching $2.2million at Inglis Easter, unbeaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-194627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}