News - BETTER THAN READY (AUS)

Lyndhurst Stud based Better Than Ready is at full throttle coming to the end of the season with six winners in the past six days to bring his tally to 123 seasonal winners and one of those winners put Siena Grima within striking distance of winning the Sydney apprentice jockeys title for 2025/2026.

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).

Champion local trainer Tony Gollan made his presence felt on Day One of the 2026 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale securing a number of classy youngsters including the top seller of the day.

Widden Stud were active at the top end as a vendor at the Magic Millions National Sale on Tuesday and also as a buyer securing Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Skirt the Law for $1.35million.

Here is the full list of 61 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

A colt by Better Than Ready topped Day One of the 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast March Yearling Sale with a phone bid from Los Angeles Airport coming up trumps.

Lyndhurst Stud’s Better Than Ready posted his 100th winner of the season in the juvenile maiden at Townsville on Thursday when This Girl’s Ready became his ninth 2YO winner of the season and he’s poised to make a big impact at the Gold Coast next week with some 40 yearlings to be offered at Magic Millions March.

Lyndhurst Stud and Champion stallion, Better Than Ready, left their hoofprint on the Keith Noud program at Doomben on Saturday with a QTIS double via Skirt The Law and Northern Express.

Here is the full list of 53 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.

The ability to sire fast maturing early 2YO’s is a quality not all stallions possess, so the ones that can do it on a regular basis hold a unique place in the market and not all of them are super expensive.

The leading sire of two year-old winners this season is not Snitzel or Zoustar, it’s Lyndhurst Stud’s Better Than Ready and he posted his 11th juvenile winner at Doomben on Saturday where Steady Ready won by daylight on debut.

Lyndhurst Stud’s Better Than Ready is a clear leader on the Australian 2YO Sires by winners list with nearly double the number of winners over the next best sire and yearling buyers will have an unprecedented opportunity to secure his stock next week with some 80 of his yearlings entered for Magic Millions Gold Coast March.

For those that thought Better Than Ready was an early season wonder who would quietly fade from the scene, well think again after the son of More Than Ready wrestled the lead back off Brazen Beau for first-season sire honours after The Odyssey ploughed through the mud in Saturday's $500,000 2YO Jewel at the Gold Coast.