News - BETTER THAN READY (AUS)
Thoroughbred Breeders Queensland Association is proud to announce the 2020-21 Queensland Breeding Champions and QTIS Premiers.
Former Central Queensland based stakes winner Better Reflection has sold for $350,000 during today's Magic Millions August Online Sale.
Much is made of the performance of first and second season sires in terms of racetrack results , but when their oldest progeny turn four they have to swim in the big pool against all the other sires, so a look at how they are going comparative to each other is interesting.
The Desleigh Forster-trained Apache Chase is off to the Stradbroke after lowering the boom on Ayrton in Saturday’s $250,000 Group III Fred Best Classic (1400m) at Eagle Farm.
Here is the full list of 76 stallions which had winners throughout Australasia today with winners and result details.
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.
The locals went 1-2-3 in the $1m Racing Qld Magic Millions (1300m) to bring the curtain down on Magic Millions raceday at the Gold Coast.
He’s Australia’s leading sire of two year-old winners and has one of the top fancies in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic on Saturday in Alpine Edge, so if you are shopping for a two year-old at the sale look no further than Better Than Ready.
A standout in the paddock, Apache Chase looked even better at the finish of Saturday’s $300,000 Group III Magic Millions Vo Rogue Plate (1400m) at Eagle Farm.
Lyndhurst Stud’s Better than Ready is setting a brisk pace leading the Australian two year-old sires list by winners and he added a seventh winner on Sunday with an impressive winner at Sunshine Coast that is Magic Millions eligible.
Hard to do much better than two starts for two stakes wins.
Six new winners into catalogue pages from Saturday’s races as siblings or half-siblings along with two stakes winners and four stakes placegetters so here’s the full list.
The Better Than Ready colt Alpine Edge will head to the Magic Millions 2yo Classic at the Gold Coast in January after making the bravest of debuts in Saturday’s Listed The Phelan Ready To Buy A Boom Stakes (1000m) at Eagle Farm.
Earlier this week we ran a story highlighting those special stallions that consistently deliver two year-old winners and while we’re all awake to Snitzel, I Am Invincible, Not a Single Doubt and Exceed and Excel, there is another name that really should be added to that list.
After the Tony Sears-trained filly Better Thinking opened her account with a three and a half-length romp when on debut at Toowoomba on Saturday to make it winner number 22 for Better Than Ready, the high-flying Lyndhurst Stud stallion took his tally to 23 on Sunday but this one came with a bit of a difference.
Lyndhurst Stud’s long-time front-runner Better Than Ready continues to repel the formidable challenges of Deep Field and Rubick for number of individual winners by a first season sire after Golly Hut broke his maiden at the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday to become winner number 21.
We thought last season we were seeing something exceptional when bargain priced sire Spirit of Boom churned out 18 Australian first crop winners, but lightning has struck twice with another modestly priced Queenslander in Better than Ready equalling and surpassing his figures.
At Doomben on Wednesday, Better than Ready posted a 19th two year-old winner for the season to poke his nose back in front of big guns Snitzel and I Am Invincible in the race to be leading Australian sire by two year-old winners.
It’s been an amazing season for Lyndhurst Stud’s exciting young sire Better Than Ready and it got better again on Wednesday when he posted his 17th first crop winner with a Sunshine Coast victory for talented gelding Ready to Roam.
The Listed BRC Dalrello Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday produced a thrilling finish with Better Than Ready's Jagged Edge holding a nose margin over Deep Field's Deep Sea to give first season sires the quinella in the 1000 metre sprint.