Ethereal (horse)

Ethereal (horse)

Thoroughbred racehorse infobox
horsename = Ethereal


caption =
sire = Rhythm
grandsire = Mr. Prospector
dam = Romanee Conti
damsire = Sir Tristram
sex = Mare
foaled = 1997
country = New Zealand
colour = Bay
breeder = Peter J. Vela & Phillip M. Vela
owner = Peter J. Vela & Phillip M. Vela
trainer = Sheila Laxon
record = 21: 8-1-3
earnings = AUS$4,762,135
race = Doomben Roses (2001)
Queensland Oaks (2001)
Caulfield Cup (2001)
Melbourne Cup (2001)
The BMW Stakes (2002)
awards= Waikato Horse of the Year Award (2002)
Australian Champion Stayer (2002)
honours =
updated= September 8, 2007

Ethereal (foaled 1997 in New Zealand) is a Thoroughbred mare racehorse. Owned and bred by brothers, Peter and Phillip Vela, her dam was Romanee Conti, a Hong Kong Cup winner and a daughter of leading sire, Sir Tristram. Ethereal was sired by the 1989 U.S. Champion 2-Yr-Old Colt and Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner, Rhythm. Her grandsire was the very influential Champion sire, Mr. Prospector.

Trained by Sheila Laxon, Ethereal won four Group One races, including three of the most important staying races in Australia, the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups in 2001 and the The BMW Stakes in 2002.

As a broodmare

Immediately following her win in the 2002 BMW Stakes, Ethereal was retired from racing to serve as a broodmare for her owner's Pencarrow Stud in the Waikato region of New Zealand. She immediately attracted some of the top prospective sires from Thoroughbred racing worldwide.

Ethereal's first mating was to the 2000 European Horse of the Year, Giant's Causeway, which produced a filly named Uberalles who was third in the Group 2 Great Northern Guineas and was third in the Group 1 New Zealand Derby. In 2004, she produced another filly by Van Nistelrooy, a son of Storm Cat, the stallion who in 2005 commanded the world's highest stud fee of US$500,000. Ethereal's next foal was a colt by Stravinsky, a son of the 1970 EnglishTriple Crown champion, Nijinsky. In 2007, this colt sold for AUS$1,300,000 at the Karaka Premier sale. Now named Aetherius, this colt's only win to date came at Wingatui, appropriately on the same day as the 2007 Melbourne Cup.

References

* [http://www.pedigreequery.com/ethereal6 Ethereal's pedigree and partial racing stats]
* [http://www.thoroughbrednet.co.nz/pencarrowstud04/default.asp Pencarrow Stud website]

ee also

Millionaire racehorses in Australia


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