October 13, 2025Second Group winner for Cool Aza Beel
Newhaven Park bred, raised and sold Cool Aza Rene became the second stakes winner for resident sire Cool Aza Beel (NZ) when displaying a sharp turn of foot to claim the Group 3 Barneswood Farm Stakes (1400m) at Ashburton in the South Island of New Zealand.
The very first 2-year-old winner of Cool Aza Beel’s stud career, Cool Aza Rene proved to be a four-time winner during her juvenile season and has now successfully trained-on to score at Pattern Race level as a 3-year-old.
A prominent lead-up to the Group 1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas (1600m), the Barneswood Farm Stakes witnessed Cool Aza Rene quicken off the back of the leaders to score by three-quarters of a length, running out the 1400m trip strongly.
Cool Aza Rene’s maiden black-type success prompted co-trainer Sam Bergerson to say: “… she’s so tough and so game. She has a good, positive racing style and knows where the winning post is.”
In addition to becoming Cool Aza Beel’s first 3-year-old stakes winner and the second black-type winner of his first-crop to race, Cool Aza Rene also became the third Group winning graduate of Newhaven Park’s 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale draft.
Newhaven’s 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast consignment also included four-time 2-year-old stakes winner Cool Archie (BRC JJ Atkins P.-Gr.1, Sires’ Produce S.-Gr.2, Spirit of Boom Classic-Gr.2, Dalrello S.-LR) and The Playwright (ATC Widden S.-Gr.3; 4th MRC Blue Diamond S.-Gr.1, GCTC Magic Millions 2YO Classic-RL), two of the standout members of last season’s juvenile ranks in Australia.
In just 12 months, Cool Archie ($100,000), The Playwright ($60,000) and Cool Aza Rene ($55,000) are now the collective winners of no fewer than 12 races and $2,587,408 in prizemoney, the Group winning trio having only commenced their respective racing career on October 5, November 30 and October 19 of 2024.