Weekend Beauty, the dam of 2008 Australian Horse of the Year Weekend Hussler, died on Monday aged 15.

The last of her seven foals, a colt by Animal Kingdom, was born at Arrowfield on November 14 and has been fostered.

“Weekend Beauty was a very special mare for us,” Arrowfield bloodstock manager Jon Freyer said.  “She almost single-handedly justified Arrowfield’s selection and purchase of Hussonet and gave Australia the champion racehorse Weekend Hussler.”

An $80,000 buy from the Arrowfield draft at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale, Weekend Hussler was a Group 1 winner of the 2007 Caulfield Guineas and Coolmore Stud Stakes at his fifth and sixth starts.

Five more Group 1 wins from 1100m to 1800m followed in the next ten months until September 2008 when he won the Underwood Stakes, which was to be his last success before his eventual retirement in October 2010.

“The Hussler” signed off with career prizemoney of just over $3 million earned in 12 wins from 21 starts for trainer Ross McDonald.  He achieved an annual Timeform figure of 130 in the 2007-08 season.

Weekend Beauty (Helissio – Not On Friday by At Talaq) was bred by Katsumi Yoshida and owned by the Arrowfield-Jungle Pocket partnership.  She went on to have three more live foals, her other winner being Weekend Hussler’s year-older half-sister Talaq Dancer, successful in Adelaide and the dam of Group winner Lucky Hussler (by Hussonet’s son Husson).

Arrowfield and Jungle Pocket will offer Weekend Beauty’s penultimate foal, a stunning bay filly by Redoute’s Choice, at the 2015 Inglis Easter Sale.

The partnership continues to breed from Weekend Beauty’s half-sister Any Other Day (Redoute’s Choice), who produced a Charge Forward filly last month, and has been served by Dundeel.

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