With over 40 stakes winners bred, raised or sold by Arrowfield in the past five years including the likes of Belle Du Jour, Charming City, Spectatorial, Suntagonal and Blur, Arrowfield Stud’s latest stakes winner comes from a very different source to the Australian sale ring in which the abovementioned horses could be found.

Arrowfield bred Quest Star (Broad Brush – Tinaca) broke through for his first graded stakes win in the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Handicap (G2) at Saratoga Race Course in America.

The three-year-old son of Broad Brush had finished third in Grade 3 stakes company on the turf in three of his last four starts, but was overlooked in the Grade 2 contest going out as a 12/1 outsider.

Off to a slow start, jockey Jerry Bailey guided race favourite Patrol to the inside and quickly seized the lead, reeling off fast fractions of :23.20, :46.70, and 1:10.98, while Quest Star, under jockey Pat Day, waited patiently in last about six lengths off the pace. Patrol began to visibly weary past the one-mile mark, while Quest Star nimbly split a fading Finality and a rallying Union Place to mow down Patrol in the final furlong of the 1 1/8-mile event to win going away by 1 ½ lengths.

"He split horses gamely, ran on down to the wire and got the job done," winning jockey Pat Day said.

Arrowfield Stud in partnership with Mr John Leaver purchased Tinaca, the dam of Quest Star, carrying the future stakes winner. Not long after her purchase, Giant’s Causeway, out of a half sister to Tinaca, emerged as a Horse of the Year and Champion Miler of Europe.

Arrowfield sold Quest Star as a yearling through Taylor Made Sales Agency and the mare then visited Sunday Silence with her now two-year-old colt selling for $1.1 million to agent Rob McAnulty at the Easter Yearling Sales. Tinaca has an End Sweep yearling colt and is currently in foal to leading sire Flying Spur.

"We are looking forward to Tinaca foaling down in the next month. If we get a Flying Spur filly then we might look at sending her back into a Northern Hemisphere program," said Arrowfield’s Bloodstock Manager Byron Rogers.