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Magic Millions Gold Coast March - Better Than Ready and Barbaric

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Tuesday Mar 10

Lyndhurst Stud will be kept busy this week with a draft of 36 for the Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale starting on Thursday with the spotlight firmly on youngsters by Better Than Ready and Barbaric.

Better Than Ready has been the Champion Sire of Queensland for the past three years.

Better Than Ready has been a huge success for Lyndhurst, kicking off back in 2015 at a fee of $9,900 and establishing himself as Queensland’s reigning Champion Sire, a title he has now held for three years in a row.

Better Than Ready is on the cusp of his seasonal century of Australian winners with 98 on the board since August 1 and they include stakes-winners Epic Proportions and Hidden Wealth.

Better Than Ready has 11 youngsters to be offered in the Lyndhurst draft this week and they include:

Lot 252 Filly Better than Ready x Louisiana Miss, by Redoute’s Choice

Full sister to a winner and is from an unraced daughter of G3 winner Gabbidon from the family of G1 winners Bustler and Mythical Play.

Lot 484 Colt Better than Ready x Vibrant, by Not a Single Doubt

Second foal of winning daughter of G3 placed Brightest tracing back to fourth dam Kapchat, winner of the Group I STC Winfield Classic. First foal is promising 2YO She’s Hotstuff (2f Standout), placed at Sunshine Coast last month.

Barbaric is a son of champion sire I Am Invincible.

Barbaric is the young gun at Lyndhurst and is a good looking, Group winning juvenile by champion sire I Am Invincible, who has no fewer than nine sire sons that have left stakes-winners- Hellbent, Brazen Beau, Home Affairs, Santos, Kobayashi, I Am Immortal, Overshare, Strasbourg and Super One.

From four runners so far, Barbaric has sired a winner and a place-getter with activity at the barrier trials suggesting more runners are in the pipeline.

Barbaric has 14 youngsters in the Lyndhurst draft with highlights below:

Lot 260 Colt Barbaric x Lune Rouge (USA), by Malibu Moon

From the second crop of young I Am Invincible son Barbaric. Half-brother to six winners from imported SW Lune Rouge, who comes from a prolific US Black Type family.

Lot 261 Filly Barbaric x Lupita, by Bel Danoro

Half-sister to two winners from a winning half-sister to G3 winner Savute with the family also featuring Group winners Bring Me Roses and Face Value.

Lot 460 Colt Barbaric x Three Cities, by Ilovethiscity

Second foal of a placed daughter of Group III winner Faiza and first foal of the mares is promising 2YO Bowdene(c Barbaric), who placed last spring at his first and only start to date.

Lot 479 Barbaric x Ultimate Rush, by Sequalo

Half-sister to three winners from a winning sister to G2 STC Expressway Stakes winner Burdekin Blues and daughter of brilliant speedster Winsome Blue, a stakes-placed winner of 16 races.

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