{"id":452776,"date":"2026-05-30T14:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452776\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:08:16","slug":"first-winner-for-cox-plate-hero-state-of-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/452776\/","title":{"rendered":"First Winner for Cox Plate Hero State of Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newgate shuttler State of Rest (IRE) is on the board with his first winner after talented filly Anad scored a dazzling last to first win on debut at Wolverhampton in the UK overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Trained by Karl Burke, Anad was sent off as favourite for the 7f juvenile contest and unleashed a brilliant finish for Clifford Lee to charge home and win by a long head over Shadwell Stud homebred Mohaymenah.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nice performance!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a first winner as a sire for State Of Rest as ANAD takes out tonight&#8217;s feature from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WolvesRaces?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@WolvesRaces<\/a>&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/karl_burke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@karl_burke<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CliffordleexLee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@CliffordleexLee<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4VCqoWHW8g\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4VCqoWHW8g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 At The Races (@AtTheRaces) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AtTheRaces\/status\/2060431505214632058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">May 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anad topped the Goffs Orby Book 2 Sale.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/breednet-images-anad-sale-31090.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 397px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anad topped the Goffs Orby Book 2 Yearling Sale when selling for \u20ac150,000 to Federico Barberini for Mrs Alanood Althani and is the fourth winner from four foals to race from stakes-placed Sea the Stars mare Duchess of Danzig, who won up to 2200m.<\/p>\n<p>Anad has plenty of stamina through her female family as her dam is a three-quarter-sister to stakes-winner Samahram from Champion German 2YO Filly Djumama.<\/p>\n<p>State of Rest is the best son of Starspangledbanner, who recently had a red letter day when he sired the winners of both the Group I Irish 2000 Guineas and 1000 Guineas with Gstaad and Precise.<\/p>\n<p>State of Rest is due back at Newgate this spring from Rathbarry Stud in Ireland and will have his first runners here next season with his yearlings selling for up $425,000 and set to enter many of Australia\u2019s leading stables.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breednet.com.au\/stallions\/premium\/sales-results-display?sire=state+of+rest&amp;suf=Ire&amp;saleyear=all&amp;horsetype=y&amp;n=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Click here to see the full list of his yearlings sold here this year.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/breednet-images-state-of-rest-top-sellers--31089.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 545px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>State of Rest is priced at $22,000 this spring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breednet.com.au\/sire\/premium\/state-of-rest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"State of Rest (RE), click for more info and a Hypo mating.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/breednet-images-state-of-rest-2024-21652.jpg\" style=\"width: 600px; height: 473px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newgate shuttler State of Rest (IRE) is on the board with his first winner after talented filly Anad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-452776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452776","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=452776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}