All roads lead to Randwick this Saturday for the world’s richest race on turf with the $20million Group I ATC TAB Everest (1200m) set to feature the fastest horse on the planet Ka Ying Rising and 11 local challengers that include flying 4YO gelding Ninja, a son of Golden Slipper winner Farnan.
Switched to Vinery Stud earlier this year following the amalgamation of Vinery with his former home at Kia Ora, Farnan has made a swift start to the new season with his oldest progeny now four year-olds.
Farnan is the equal leader of the third season sire division by winners with 22 to his credit and is running second to Bivouac by earnings.
The star performer for Farnan this season has been the Michael Freedman trained Ninja, whose form has soared to a new level this spring to the delight of his army of Myracehorse owners.
Ninja won his first race at Kembla on August 1st last year winning by 11 lengths on a heavy track and has quickly risen through his grades since then with Group wins in the ATC Hobartville Stakes and BRC Vo Rogue Plate on good tracks, plus a desperately unlucky second in the $3million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas.
Enjoying a winter spell in which he furnished and matured, Ninja exploded into Everest calculation with a dominant first up win in the Group II ATC Missile Stakes and looked sharp and ready to fire when shading Ka Ying rising in a barrier trial at Randwick last Tuesday.
NINJA gets the better of KA YING RISING in a key barrier trial ahead of the G1 The Everest ?? They will meet again in the world’s richest turf race next week ?? https://t.co/M1kb0RXYDy
— World Horse Racing (@WHR) October 5, 2026
A $380,000 Magic Millions purchase from Segenhoe Stud for MyRacehorse Pty Ltd/Michael Freedman Racing/Gandharvi Pty Ltd/Belmont Bloodstock Agency, Ninja has five wins and three placings from 10 starts with prizemoney of $1.3million.
Ninja is the horse most of us would love to own and that opportunity presented itself in the Inglis Digital October (Early) Online Sale when a 1% share in the sprinter sold for $55,000 to David Blumberg.
The sale placed the total worth of Ninja at $5.5million, a big sum for a gelding, but possibly good value for Mr Blumberg if Ninja can figure in the Everest and the $10million Group I ATC Golden Eagle (1400m) that follows two weeks later on October 31.
Ninja is the best of five stakes-winners to date for Farnan, who has sired 78 lifetime winners with earnings in excess of $8million.
His biggest crop so far are yearlings headed to the 2027 sales, while his foals born this spring were conceived at the increased fee of $77,000, which is his fee again this year.
By Not a Single Doubt from a daughter of Street Cry (USA), Farnan passes on the speed and strength of his pedigree with Ninja a shining example.
