Cover image courtesy of The Image Is Everything
Bred by Don and Elizabeth Byrne of Eldon Park Stud, Streisand (Magnus) went through the Yarran Thoroughbreds draft at the Inglis Great Southern Weanling Sale for $22,000.
Purchased as a weanling by Northmore in partnership with Waterford Livestock, she was later pinhooked through the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, where bloodstock agent Shane McGrath and trainer Clinton McDonald secured her for $100,000.
Yarran Thoroughbreds’ name on the docket
To have sold a G1 Blue Diamond winner is a useful ticket for a small farm, and Yarran Thoroughbreds’ manager Chris Stokeld is thrilled with the timing with ten yearlings to sell at the upcoming Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
“We took Streisand on for Eldon Park Stud for the weanling sales. Inglis set it up for us,” said Stokeld.
“We had two of our own going through the sale and Eldon Park Stud had four, so we combined to make a nice sized draft. It was a hard sale, but Magnus had done plenty as a stallion and she was a nice type so that helped get her across the line.
“Seeing a good horse come out of our draft definitely helps build our profile coming into the Premier Sale.” - Chris Stokeld
“Seeing a good horse come out of our draft definitely helps build our profile coming into the Premier Sale.” Yarran Thoroughbreds used that opportunity to build a relationship with Eldon Park Stud.
Streisand as a yearling | Image courtesy of Inglis
“We did two yearlings for them last year, but unfortunately Don (Byrne) passed away mid last year.”
The Mornington Peninsula property Eldon Park Stud was put on the market in October 2025 and sold. Eldon Park Stud also bred the Star Witness yearling half-brother to Streisand, and he goes through Newhaven Park Stud’s Inglis Premier Yearling Sale draft as Lot 458.
Yarran Thoroughbreds have ten yearlings headed to the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale.
“We’ve a nice mix of sires with a couple of nice Ghaiyyath colts and a Zousain colt that we hope will sell well. Six colts, four fillies and I’m happy with how they’ve been going.
“The Toronado filly and the Acrobat are nice too.”
Lot 635, the Zousain colt, is a full brother to Zoustrology who placed twice from three starts in the spring for Jack Bruce.
Lot 635: Zousain x Jewelled Princess colt | Image courtesy of Inglis
The two Ghaiyyath (Ire) colts are Lot 365 from the Only Words (End Sweep {USA}) family and Lot 585 from the family of Hong Kong star Hot King Prawn (Denman).
A pinhook success for Northmore
“It’s very sad for Don. What a buzz he would have had (breeding a Blue Diamond winner). This would be your lifelong dream,” said Northmore's Tammy Notman.
It’s all about physical type for Notman who purchased Streisand as a weanling based purely on her conformation, and after selling her at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale for $100,000, she bought back into her with some friends.
“Her size, her shape, and she was by Magnus out of a Zoustar mare. She was pretty faultless really.
“Her (Streisand) size, her shape, and she was by Magnus out of a Zoustar mare. She was pretty faultless really.
“(Her price was) because Magnus is not a fashionable sire. I’ve had success breeding to him before and my friend Hayley (Waterford Thoroughbreds) has had success with him too, but trainers don’t buy them because they find them hard to syndicate.
“She was just a great type, good shape with great feet, and had a bit of Zoustar about her. Zoustar is going to be phenomenal through the coming years, isn’t he?” Zoustar as a broodmare sire has four stakes winner and Streisand is his first Group 1 winner in that role.
Streisand | Image courtesy of The Image Is Everything
Her type was something that stood out for her buyer Shane McGrath too.
“We saw her down at the Premier Sale and from the moment we saw her we just loved her,” McGrath told inglis.com.au.
“She was such a big, strong, powerful filly and honestly, she was a Magnus that looked like a Zoustar and we said ‘we’ve got to buy her.” - Shane McGrath
“She was such a big, strong, powerful filly and honestly, she was a Magnus that looked like a Zoustar and we said ‘we’ve got to buy her’ so we bought her for a client, we’ve got a heap of owners in her, my son and daughter are in her, it’s like they’ve won a grand final and this is the grand final of Melbourne racing.
“We work hard, we look at every horse at every sale, we’ve got a really select criteria for what we look for and Clinton’s systems at Cranbourne, it’s a real family environment, horses love being trained there and he’s a horseman at heart.”
Shane McGrath and Clinton McDonald | Image courtesy of Racing Photos
Twelve months and another 12 yearlings
Northmore will present a draft of 12 yearlings at this year’s Inglis Premier Sale with ten different stallions represented. Lot 225, the Home Affairs filly will catch the eye, being out of G3 Vo Rogue Plate winner Mywayorthehighway (NZ) (Swiss Ace), while Lot 320 is a Hellbent half-brother to dual Listed winning juvenile Madeenaty (Exceed And Excel).
“They are all good types. I know everyone always says that, but they're good types because that’s what we focus on here.” - Tammy Notman
“They are all good types. I know everyone always says that, but they're good types because that’s what we focus on here. We’ve just arrived at Inglis with these 12 yearlings and it’s incredible to think that Streisand was one of them last year. It’s only been twelve months and she’s won a Blue Diamond,” said Notman.
“She was pretty easy to prep. She had a good attitude, was a good eater, and she was just no fuss. She came to us with plenty of condition, she’d been well brought up. We’ve had a lot of success pinhooking and haven’t made a loss on any unless there’s been an issue.”
Lot 225: Home Affairs x mywayorthehighway (NZ) filly | Image courtesy of Inglis
She was such a great type with an outstanding attitude that Notman bought back into her.
“A couple of weeks after the sale, I saw Clinton (McDonald)’s ad for shares, and I thought, ‘oh, God, she was so good, she had such a good work ethic and she was a no drama,’ and I said to my friends, ‘we should get a 10% share in her and put some friends in her’, so we did that.
“She (Streisand) had such a good work ethic and she was a no drama.” - Tammy Notman
“Clinton has had this plan from the beginning. She was named straight away and he's done a phenomenal job with her. She’s just had a faultless prep, it's just been incredible. Just been unbelievable.”
Trainer Clinton McDonald got accidentally punched in the nose on Saturday during the celebrations, but it wasn’t Tammy!
“Yesterday was just … oh my god. It was just everyone was going off. It was so good. It wasn’t me (that punched him), but I was screaming!
“I’ve actually got the dam now. She was bred at Woodside, and my husband trimmed her all the way from a foal, weanling, and as a yearling until Woodside sold her.” Streisand is the second winner for dual winner Zouper Star (Zoustar) whose first foal Rich Star (Rich Enuff) won his maiden at Clarence River on Thursday.
She has the Star Witness yearling colt in Newhaven Park Stud’s Inglis Premier Yearling Sale draft, and a colt foal by Nicconi.
Zouper Star missed to Street Boss (USA) in 2025 so is empty going into the next breeding season.
“We joked about going to Vinnie but it’s a possibility now, right?”
