Winx world’s equal best racehorse of 2018
Girls Are Ready worth keeping eye on (Trainer Joe Cleary)
British racing star Cracksman and Australia's Winx have jointly been named the world's top racehorse.
Winx world’s equal best racehorse of 2018
Winx (2011, bay mare, Street Cry (Ire) – Vegas Showgirl, by Al Akbar (Success Express (USA), bred on Coolmore Hunter Valley for Fairway Thoroughbreds (John Camilleri), Sydney, has been named equal best racehorse of 2018 in the Longines World Best Racehorses just released.
Unbeaten during the year, she has been ranked on 130, the same assessment as the English horse Cracksman, a newcomer this year to Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud at Newmarket UK. Cracksman is by Frankel (Galileo – Kind, by Pivotal). Galileo and Frankel’s maternal grandsire Danehill (USA) were used as visiting sires at Coolmore Hunter Valley.
The Mighty Winks trained by Chris Waller, is the darling of Australian racing after racking up a record 29 straight wins.
Second highweight in the Rankings on 128, Accelerate (USA), is by Lookin at Lucky (USA), a sire who visited Coolmore in 2011. He is by Smart Strike, a Mr. Prospector product with exported Australian Noholme in his pedigree, and from a mare by Belong to Me (USA), a dual hemisphere sire who supplied some good winners from visits to Widden.
Equal fourth best is Beauty Generation (NZ), a Hong Kong champion with an Australian pedigree. Foaled in 2012, he is by the Encosta de Lago sire Road to Rock and from Stylish Bel by Bel Esprit. The second dam, Stylish Victory is by Durham Ranger (USA), an imported son of Noholme.
Girls Are Ready worth keeping eye on
Despite the fact that she finished eleventh in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, 6.7 lens behind the winner, it wont be surprising if the Better Than Ready filly Girls Are Ready is competitive in good autumn juvenile races.
Winner of two races in Sydney in succession in December, the Joe Cleary, Queanbeyan trained Girls Are Ready got trapped behind a wall of horses entering the straight and despite the endeavor of her jockey Jessica Taylor could not get an opening. Jessica switched the filly here there and everywhere in a gallant attempt to break through.
Joe Cleary, Trainer Queanbeyan of Girls Are Ready
Bred by the Richard Foster headed Yarramalong Stud, Kalbar, Fassifern Valley, Queensland, Girls Are Ready is from the first crop of the Better Than Ready, a More Than Ready (USA) sprinter located at Lyndhurst Stud at Warwick. In a partnership of Lyndhurst and Yarramalong, he has got off to an impressive start as a sire, supplying eight individual winners.
Better Than Ready leads the first season sire statistics by winners, wins, stakes wins and earnings. In addition he is the leading juvenile sire overall by winners and third by money.
The bulk of the 2019 Better Than Ready yearlings are likely by in the Magic Millions at the Gold Coast in March, but two who were available in January went for $160,000 and $130,000.
In addition he has four listed under Yarramalong in the Inglis Melbourne Premier catalogue.
One is an August 4 foaled sister to Girls Are Ready
Eleven million dollar lots at record Gold Coast Sale
The management of the Magic Millions sales company, and the breeding industry as a whole, should be ecstatic at the huge success of their annual January Gold Coast yearling, one conducted over six days, January 9 -13. New records were set across the board with 934 lots, an 86 per cent clearance, selling for a southern hemisphere yearling sale high of $182,415,888.
A total of 66 lots each found buyers at $500,000 or more, including eleven each for $1million or more, peaking at $1,700,00, a price paid for an I Am Invincible colt out of Oakleigh Girl (a Snitzel dual stakes winner and Magic Millions 2YO Classic runner up) bred by S Gillard NSW and sold through Yarraman Park Stud, Scone to Kennewell Rcg/Group1 BS, Aquis/Ozzie Kheir.
The Yarraman Park based I Am Invincible was the most successful sire of the sale with 56 lots selling for a gross of $24, 645,500, nearly double the second highest grossing sire, Widden Stud’s Zoustar, 40 lots $12,815,000. Yarraman Park headed the sellers with 27 selling for $11,595,000 and average of $429,444 – the highest of the sale.
Gai Waterhouse – Adrian Bott Racing were the biggest spenders, taking home 25 lots for $6,860,000 at an average of $274,400.
Buyers at the sale represented Australia, New Zealand, Japan,China, Hong Kong, Singapore, United States, and United Kingdom. Most of these horses are likely to race in Australia.
TOP PRICE HONOUR BOARD
$1,700,000 B c Sept 11 I Am Invincible (Yarraman Park) – Oakleigh Girl, by Snitzel, Yarraman Park, Kennewell Racing/Group One BS/Aquis/Ozzie Kheir Vic
$1,600,000 B c Sept 11, Redoute’s Choice (Arrowfield Stud) – Purely Spectacular, by Pins, Bhima Stud, Phoenix Thoroughbreds/Aquis Farms.
$1,400,000 B c Sept 1, Redoute’s Choice (Arrowfield) – Breakfast In Bed, by Hussonet (USA), Segenhoe Stud, James Harron Bloodstock NSW.
$1,300,000, B c Aug 22 I Am Invincible (Yarraman Park) – Tai Tai Tess, by Magic Albert, Yarraman Park, Waller Racing/Mulcaster Bloodstock NSW.
$1,100,000 B c Aug 7 Fastnet Rock (Coolmore) – Ballet Suite, by High Chaparral (Ire), Coolmore, Jon Kelly/Reg Inglis/James McCalmont USA.
$1,100,000 B c Oct 13 I Am Invincible (Yarraman Park) –Champagne Cath, by Street Sense (USA), Newgate Farm, Waller Racing/Mulcaster Bloodstock NSW
