A homebred for Gerry Harvey’s Baramul Stud, Better Than Ready mare Chidiac got the cash last start when winning the $1million ATC Country Championship Final at Randwick and today she got the Black Type winning the $250,000 Group III Hawkesbury Crown (1300m).
Trained by Brett and Georgie Cavanough, Chidiac won her first four starts in a row kicking off with a Quirindi maiden in December 2024.
She’s been well placed through her grades and arrived in a Black Type race for the first time on Saturday with Braith Nock to ride.
Chidiac was tenacious to the line and just kept poking her nose out to score a head win in a thrille.r
Passed in when offered in the Baramul Stud at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale Book 2 shy of her modest $25,000 reserve, Chidiac was retained by Gerry Harvey and now has the overall record of seven wins and two placings from 12 starts with prizemoney topping $1.1million.
She is the best of five winners from six foals to race from Bewitchment, an unraced daughter of Group II winner Magically, whose dam Magic Music was also a Group II winner.
Baramul Stud parted company with Bewitchment in 2024 when she was sold at the MM National Broodmare Sale for just $1500 to Bileena Stud.
She has a yearling colt by Exceedance for her new owner and after having a year off was covered last spring by Star Turn.
Chidiac is the 17th stakes-winner for one of Queensland’s favourite sons in Lyndhurst Stud based Better Than Ready.
