{"id":214402,"date":"2025-10-21T01:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214402\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:22:11","slug":"cambridge-stud-celebrate-ceolwulf-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214402\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Stud Celebrate Ceolwulf Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homebred Ceolwulf\u2019s successful defence of his Gr.1 King Charles III Stakes (1600m) title ensured Cambridge Stud celebrated a top day at Randwick.<\/p>\n

\"Back<\/p>\n

Their colours were carried by James McDonald into fifth aboard Joliestar in Saturday\u2019s Gr.1 The Everest (1200m) before the Joe Pride-trained farm graduate bounced back to his best in the weight-for-age feature.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would have loved to have won The Everest with Joliestar, but it wasn\u2019t to be, and then the day finished on a real high with Ceolwulf,\u201d Cambridge Stud\u2019s Scott Calder said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d be lying if I said I hadn\u2019t lost a bit of confidence along the way, he won the race 12 months ago and Joe Pride has been so positive about him, but his form had been indifferent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, it was a masterstroke for him to have the blinkers up his sleeve, and it was awesome to see him back to that level again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ceolwulf<\/p>\n

Ceolwulf was sold on behalf of the stud by Riversley Park at New Zealand Bloodstock\u2019s Ready to Run Sale where Pride secured him with Leighton Fowl for $170,000.<\/p>\n

He is out of the Shamardal mare Las Brisas, whose 3YO Almanzor filly Lupa Capitolina was also bought at Karaka by Pride for $260,000.<\/p>\n

\"Sword<\/p>\n

A half-brother by Sword of State will be part of Cambridge Stud\u2019s draft to the 2026 New Zealand Bloodstock National Yearling Sale.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the real upside with a Sword Of State heading to Karaka, it\u2019s exciting on both fronts with the stallion having his first stakes winner (Torture) and then Ceolwulf adding his third Group One to the page,\u201d Calder said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo doubt, he will be one of the most highly anticipated horses in our draft and he\u2019s already got a profile as the horse the Guerin Report has been following since birth.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a really nice colt and a different sort to Ceolwulf, who was in that lighter framed Tavistock mould and a later developing, middle distance type of horse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sword Of State colt is very much in keeping with the stock the stallion throws, a medium-size, very mature and strong horse with a good hind quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The unraced Las Brisas foaled a filly this season to stud newcomer Chaldean.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has left a beautiful filly this year and whether she goes to public auction is probably pretty unlikely,\u201d Calder said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the sake of Chaldean, it\u2019s fantastic to have such a really nice foal out of one of our best mares.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll going to plan, the mare will be covered by I Am Invincible this year and obviously is a mare befitting of going to a stallion of that calibre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Las Brisas purchased for 50,000gns at the 2018 Tattersalls December Mare Sale.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs everyone knows with breeding, you have to have long range plans and investment and it can really pay dividends,\u201d Calder said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven prior to owning Cambridge Stud, Brendan and Jo (Lindsay) invested in European bloodstock sales and those rewards are coming to bear now,\u201d Calder said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLas Brisas is an example of that, a well-related daughter of Shamardal and Brendan was at the sale that year with (bloodstock agent) John Foote and (stud CEO) Henry Plumptre and now she\u2019s produced one of the best middle-distance horses in Australasia.\u201d \u2013 LOVERACING.NZ News Desk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homebred Ceolwulf\u2019s successful defence of his Gr.1 King Charles III Stakes (1600m) title ensured Cambridge Stud celebrated a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-214402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}