Dundeel was a superstar who smashed Gr.1 fields and won the Triple Crown in Sydney

Dundeel was a bay colt trained by Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman at Murray's Cambridge stables. When in Australia Dundeel raced under the name, 'It's A Dundeel', and was managed by son Bjorn Baker at his Warwick Farm stables. His sire High Chaparral won the Epsom Derby in 2002 and the Breeders' Cup Turf in 2002 and 2003. As a stallion, he is best known as the sire of So You Think among 23 Group 1 winners. His mother was Stareel (by Zabeel) an unraced 'Broodmare of the Year' in NZ in 2013/14, half-sister to Chapel Star, dam of twelve named foals, ten to race, with seven winners. Dundeel's career earning were phenomenal for a horse who only raced 19 times, but out of the ten wins, many those were elite black type wins in major features. He was an incredible young talent that tore up the turf.

Dundeel started his racing career with five straight wins culminating in the 2012 Spring Champion Stakes. He had previously added to his unbeaten record with another win in the Gr.3 Gloaming Stakes (1800m), also at Randwick in Sydney. In the autumn of 2013, he became the first horse to win the coveted Australian Triple Crown since Octagonal in 1996. He won the first leg in the 2013 Randwick Guineas (1600m). This victory was followed up by a comfortable 6.8 length win in the 2013 Rosehill Guineas (2000m). He completed the Australian Triple Crown in style with a 6 length win in the Australian Derby (2400m) and in doing so he also became the first ever to do so since the first leg moved from the Canterbury Guineas in 2006. He also becomes the first horse to win a clean sweep of the four major Gr1 three-year-old races run in Sydney, having previously won the 2012 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m), an Australian Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at Set Weights, raced at the the Randwick Racecourse, Sydney with prize money of A$400,000. His fantastic three-year-old season was recognised in receiving the 2013 NSW Champion Horse of the Year.

Dundeel continued to develop as a four-year-old and created history in becoming the first horse to defeat the previously unbeaten Atlantic Jewel in the Gr.1, 2013 Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield in Melbourne, and then proceeded to win the richest race to ever be run on a Sydney track in the Gr.1 $4M Queen Elizabeth Stakes. In reflecting on It's a Dundeel's career, his trainer Murray Baker, and champion jockey James McDonald, who has partnered him in all but one start, both describe Dundeel as the best horse they have ever trained and ridden respectively. Mick Kent, trainer of the Australian Derby runner-up Philippi, described Dundeel as “the best horse in Australia - as good as the mare (Black Caviar)”. Black Caviar's breeder Rick Jamieson has described Dundeel as a champion and "the best three-year-old we have seen for a while."

His victory in the 2014 Queen Elizabeth Stakes earned him a Timeform rating of 129 at the conclusion of his racing career, which ranks him as the 21st equal highest rated Australian racehorse since the 1950s. On 21 April 2014, two days after his victory in the QEII Stakes, it was announced that It's A Dundeel was to be retired to stand at Arrowfield stud. Now one of Australia's leading sires with 7 Gr.1 winners, including Gr.1-winning 2 & 3YO colts Castelvecchio & Militarize. Dundeel’s 9 stakeswinners in 2023 also include South Australian Derby Gr.1 winner Dunkel, Group-winning mares Aquacade and Hope In Your Heart, 3yo Sunsets & multiple Listed winner The Inevitable. Little more than three months into 2023/24 and Dundeel has made his best-ever season start, with Militarize’s spectacular Golden Rose Gr.1 victory, and Group 3 wins by Ain’tnodeeldun & Sunsets (also 3rd in the Gr.1 Victoria Derby).

His stud fee in 2023 was $82,500 in the wake of his multiple group winners and solid sales ring results up to $800,000.

RACE RECORD - 19: 10-4-1

EARNINGS - AU$5,392,165

Gloaming Stakes (2012)

Spring Champion Stakes (2012)

Randwick Guineas (2013)

Rosehill Guineas (2013)

Australian Derby (2013)

Underwood Stakes (2013)

Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2014)

New Zealand Champion Racehorse of the Year 2014

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing's Champion Middle Distance Horse (2014)

Australian Champion Middle Distance Horse 2014

NSW Champion Horse of the Year (2013)

NSW Champion Three-Year-Old (2013)

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing's Champion Three-Year-Old (2013)