Hello Youmzain’s freshman form continues into the new season
Dennis Ryan - Raceform • August 22nd, 2025 4:00 PM • 5 min read
A perfect end to Hello Youmzain’s debut season has been followed by more of the same into the new term as the young Cambridge Stud stallion cements his position amongst the new batch of emerging sires.
The Danehill-line horse was a major coup in late 2019 when Cambridge Stud owners Sir Brendan and Lady Jo Lindsay signed a joint venture with French nursery Haras d’Etreham and SF Bloodstock, with the long-term plan to shuttle him Down Under.
At that point Hello Youmzain was three years old and already the winner of the Gr. 1 Haydock Sprint Cup. Kept in training as a four-year-old, he produced the ultimate result when carrying the Cambridge Stud colours to victory in the Gr. 1 Royal Ascot Diamond Jubilee Stakes.
Those credentials guaranteed the imposing bay a full book in his debut season at Cambridge Stud in 2021, and with his first Southern Hemisphere runners on the track in 2024-25, he claimed New Zealand first-season sire honours by a margin over Australian-based freshmen Lucky Vega, Bivouac and Cool Aza Beel.
Hello Youmzain’s five winners included two at stakes level, who between them won five races, three of them black-type races as the major contributors to total progeny stake-earnings of more than $340,000. The first of those was Cambridge Stud homebred filly Lucy In The Sky, who followed her debut win at Ellerslie with success in the Listed Champagne Stakes at Riccarton.
Fellow Hello Youmzain filly Platinum Diamond didn’t begin racing until May, but after breaking through in her second start, she claimed a feature double with the Listed Castletown Stakes and the final black-type race of the season, the Ryder Stakes, over the same 1200m trip at Otaki.
Rolling into the new season, Hello Youmzain notched another notable result when his son Landman lived up to his reputation with an impressive debut win at Woodville on Sunday. As his sire’s first three-year-old runner, the performance made a perfect start for Hello Youmzain’s second season in this part of the world.
“Hello Youmzain has been well supported from the start – excellent books of mares, keen competition for his yearlings amongst the leading buyers and now fantastic results with his first crop,” Cambridge Stud’s sales and nominations manager Scott Calder told RaceForm.
“To finish at the head of the freshman list has confirmed what we had hoped for and it was also very satisfying to see him do so well (for third) on the general two-year-old sires’ list.
“As a racehorse himself, Hello Youmzain’s form kept improving from two years through to four, so to get off to such a strong start as a stallion both here and in Europe certainly bodes well.”
On top of his impressive New Zealand first-crop statistics, Hello Youmzain’s Australian figures also read well with three winners from just five runners. According to Arion Pedigrees, complementing that are the latest European figures midway through his second year, headed by 32 winners from 65 runners in France and 15 from 25 in Great Britain.
Those Northern Hemisphere progeny include French Group Two winner and Group One-placed filly Godspeed, Group Three-winning and Group One-placed colt Misunderstood, and Electrolyte, a Group Three winner in France and runner-up in the Gr. 2 Royal Ascot Coventry Stakes.
“It’s interesting that even though he was a sprinter, he’s already leaving horses that are stretching out beyond 1600 metres in France, so that’s got to be another positive in showing their full range of potential.”
The Tony Pike-trained Lucy In The Sky is already equal favourite with last Saturday’s Gr. 3 Cambridge Stud Northland Breeders’ Stakes winner Tajana for the Gr. 1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas, scheduled for the first day of the New Zealand Cup carnival in early November.
“She’s had one trial and is progressing well towards the Gold Trail Stakes at Ellerslie in a couple of weeks,” Calder said. “She has abundant speed and has yet to prove she’ll run 1600, but it would be fair to say she has claims as good as any filly around at the moment.
“Platinum Diamond is also an exciting prospect, especially given she was a December foal, so you’d think she still has it all in front of her. It’s also great to see a horse like Landman step up and suggest he might be some chance in an early spring three-year-old race like the Wanganui Guineas.
“In Australia Hello Youmzain hasn’t had a lot go to the races yet, but he’s already had three winners and every one of the others has been placed. We keep getting positive reports on so many that have yet to race, and probably the biggest vote of confidence is that people are coming back to buy more of them.”
Hello Youmzain’s associates Almanzor, Chaldean, Embellish and Sword Of State make up a roster that promises to deliver another busy breeding season at Cambridge Stud, and one full of anticipation.
“Almanzor had another big season with his progeny competing at the pointy end and taking him to third on the premiership, while Embellish had three individual stakes winners last season, which is a statistic that puts him right up with our leading stallions.
“We’re very excited as we wait for the first Sword Of State two-year-olds to hit the tracks. The reception he got from buyers at the yearling sales could hardly have been better and the feedback on them from trainers has been exceptional.
“Chaldean and Hello Youmzain have arrived down from Europe looking great in the coat, and in Chaldean’s case given last spring was his first year here, so much more developed.
“We’re looking forward to showing them off this Sunday afternoon as the last stop on the region’s annual stallion parade weekend – I’m sure they’ll make the right impression.”
