May 19, 2025Cool weekend for Newhaven graduates
Newhaven Park resident stallion Cool Aza Beel (NZ) is now the sire of a Pattern Race winning 2-year-old — with just his first crop to race — following the impressive Group 2 Spirit of Boom Classic (1200m) win of Cool Archie at Doomben.
A last start winner of the Listed Dalrello Stakes (1000m) also placed second at Group 3 level pre-Christmas, Cool Archie took his record to three wins and a placing for earnings of over $400,000 with his Spirit of Boom Classic success and remains unbeaten in his three starts this campaign for co-trainers Chris & Corey Munce.
Cool Archie was bred, raised and sold by Newhaven Park. He was a member of the farm’s 2023 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale consignment out of which he was sold to Mick Malone Bloodstock for $100,000.
Now raced in the colours of (Max) Whitby Bloodstock, the precocious colt is ‘flying the flag’ in juvenile black-type company for his sire Cool Aza Beel and still has two major targets ahead of him in the form of the Group 2 BRC Sires’ Produce (1400m) and Group 1 JJ Atkins Stakes (1600m).
Speaking after the win, owner Max Whitby stated: “What a great result, and what a training performance. The boys have done a great job with this horse, I’m so proud of them. I think we might have a proper colt on our hands, so it’s off to the Sires’ Produce next.”
Co-trainer Chris Munce was equally elated after Cool Archie’s Spirit of Boom Classic victory, remarking: “It’s onto the Sires’ next and then the JJ Atkins … He’s a really nice colt, you wouldn’t think he’s a colt because he’s so laid-back and casual. He’s got a heart as big as he is, which is all you can ask for.”
Ridden to victory by Martin Harley, the expatriate Irishman reported in part: “That felt pretty special. He’s a horse we hold in high regard, he traveled smoothly today … He wanted to go through the gap and showed a great will to win.”
On the following day in Hong Kong, Newhaven Park graduate Blazing Wukong scored a brilliant debut success at Sha Tin for trainer Ricky Yiu and the 3-year-old’s ownership group.
Ridden by Andrea Atzeni, the son of Swettenham Stud sire Toronado (Ire) produced a stunning finishing effort to score in the time of 1m09.01s — having been 10th in a field of 12 starters during the early stages.
Blazing Wukong was born and raised at Newhaven Park and sold by us at the 2023 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on behalf of Seymour Bloodstock, and could not have made a more encouraging start to his HKJC racing career.