News - BETTER THAN READY (AUS)
Up and coming Better Than Ready filly Hearts Are Better got a valuable payday winning the $500,000 Gold Coast City Council QTIS Jewel (1200m) for 3YO’s at the Gold Coast on Saturday evening.
Tony Gollan and Tommy Berry capped a huge night on the Gold Coast on Friday when Hidden Wealth won the $1 million Racing Queensland Magic Millions QTIS Open (1300m).
Tony & Maddysen Sears made the decision to geld slick sprinter Steady Ready earlier this year and the move is paying off with the five year-old son of Better Than Ready breaking the Eagle Farm track record for 1000m on Saturday when winning the Benchmark 90 event.
Queensland based Yarramalong Park has ridden the wave of success with Better Than Ready and their Magic Millions drafts have produced five stakes-winners for the star Queensland sire including his Group I WATC Railway Stakes winner Port Lockroy and their 2024 consignment promises to deliver more of the same.
Better Than Ready’s impressive Hidden Wealth kicked off his “break out carnival” in brilliant fashion, cruising to an easy win in the Group III George Moore Stakes at Doomben on Saturday.
Interstate visitors have a poor winning record in the $1,500,000 Group 1 Swan Draught - Railway Stakes, but Port Lockroy played his part in squaring the ledger when choosing the perfect spot to end a run of bad luck in stakes races.
A long-range plan came off when Hidden Wealth went coast to coast in Saturday’s Listed 1equine Toowoomba Weetwood (1200m) under the lights at Toowoomba.
A shrewd bit of placing by Chris Waller saw the Star Thoroughbred colour-bearer Chrysaor make a winning debut in Melbourne in Saturday's Listed Vale Black Caviar Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.
Hot on the hoof of a six winner Saturday for Better Than Ready, Queensland’s Lyndhurst Stud has announced fees for its two stallions this spring.
The betting suggested Steady Ready was ready for a peak performance in Saturday’s Listed Ladbrokes Lightning Hcp (1000m) at Eagle Farm, and it proved spot on.
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.
The Australian Studbook have today released the official covering statistics for the 2023 breeding season with 22 sires covering books of 150 or more mares which was significantly down on last year when 31 stallions were in the 150 plus club.
Better Than Ready, a perennial leader for individual 2-year-old winners, left it later than usual to put one on the board this season, although it may have been worth waiting for.
A three quarter sister to former star Queensland galloper Apache Chase has topped the final day of the hugely successful 2024 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.
Saturday’s Magic Millions program at the Gold Coast is one of the most popular race days on the turf calendar and considered the ‘place to be’ and supporters of leading Queensland stallion, Better Than Ready, would know all about that with 11 of his runners – yep, that’s right, 11! – featuring in the star studded program.
If you’re a fan of Better Than Ready and who isn’t, you’ll be beating a path to the Yarramalong Park draft at Magic Millions which features 22 of his stock including the full sister to Group II winner Chrysaor, current favourite for the $3million Magic Millions 3YO Guineas.
The Better Than Ready colt Chrysaor rounded out a memorable forty minutes for Chris Waller and Denise Martin’s Star Thoroughbreds when he returned to form in the $1,000,000 Group II Cincotta Chemist Callander-Presnell Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.
Spirit of Boom might be the front runner for siring two year-old winners this season with 23 on the board, but his Queensland rival Better Than Ready is not done with yet and added a 20th winner to his tally on Sunday.
The 2yo Better Than Ready gelding Shamedy brought his season to a close at Eagle Farm on Saturday in the same fashion as it started while compiling an exceptional record of five wins, three seconds, and a third in eleven starts.
Lyndhurst Stud’s Better Than Ready moved into second place for individual 2yo winners when Aristella opened her winning account in the Cascade Maiden Plate (1200m) for fillies at Doomben on Wednesday.