News - YES YES YES (AUS)
The Everest hero in 2019 when breaking the course record at Randwick for 1200m, elite sprinter Yes Yes Yes transferred to Gooree Park Stud last spring and his first foals conceived at his new home at Mudgee are delighting their owners.
The world’s fastest horse Ka Ying Rising has come to town for the $20million The Everest at Randwick next Saturday and his connections have announced their intention to set a new track record, but it’s going to take some doing to better the current benchmark set by Yes Yes Yes when blazing to victory in the 2019 Everest.
A massive crowd packed into the KBRC on Saturday to enjoy the culmination of WA’s regional festival of racing, the historic Round highlighted by the $1million Golden Saddle slot race.
Based at Gooree Park Stud, Everest hero Yes Yes Yes enjoyed winners galore last season with his total progeny earnings topping $4million for the past 12 months and he was back in the winning groove at Rosehill on Saturday.
Since transferring to Gooree Park Stud last season, Everest hero Yes Yes Yes has continued to deliver the goods for his supporters producing 76 winners worldwide this season and they include a popular galloper in the Proven Thoroughbreds colours.
The 1100m juvenile fillies maiden at Warwick Farm on Wednesday featured a bevy of well-bred girls with Chanterelle, the full sister to Magic Millions 2YO classic winner O’Ole, sent off favourite to make a winning debut, but race experience can count for something and it did today.
Fresh from a four winner Saturday, Gooree Stud’s Everest winning sire Yes Yes Yes kept the winners coming at Kilmore on Monday with promising juvenile winner Signed By a Kiss carrying the Prime Thoroughbreds colours to victory.
The Group III Lion Rock Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin on Sunday produced an Aussie bred trifecta with five year-old Rubick gelding Light Years Charm claiming his first Black Type success when beating Beauty Joy (Sebring) and Copartner Prance (Epaulette).
Nick Kneebone has hit the ground running in his first full season of training, highlighted by his first Group One result last weekend when Speed Demon ran home well to finish third in the Gr.1 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Trentham.
Since relocating to Gooree Stud, Everest hero Yes Yes Yes has continued to deliver winners with over 40 this season and a new season juvenile winner at Ballarat on Tuesday is held in high regard by the stable.
Highlighted as a ‘One To Watch’ after breaking his maiden back in July, Matt Hoysted’s 4yo Yes Yes Yes gelding Yoyo Yeeyz has continued on with his winning ways, adding a further two wins from as many starts.
The last foal of blue hen Pretty Penny, Pretty Powerful returned for a new campaign as a gelding at Warwick Farm on Wednesday and he made it a winning return.
Yes Yes Yes has been in hot form in the past week with seven winners in the past seven days including four metropolitan winners.
With a quinella in Saturday’s Gr. 1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) done and dusted, trainer Pam Gerard is now setting about confirming summer plans for Romanoff and Affirmative Action.
Pre-post favourite Affirmative Action will have to overcome a wide gate and a lighter than intended preparation in his shared bid to defend the stable’s title in Saturday’s Gr.1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m).
The winners keep coming this spring for Yes Yes Yes with a Kiwi trained three year-old primed for his G1 target race, a promising 2YO on the rise and a stylish winner at Rosehill on Saturday for the powerful Ciaron Maher stable.
Cambridge-based horseman Nick Kneebone tasted his first success in the training ranks when two-year-old gelding Speed Demon caused a minor upset in the Hallmark Stud 2YO (1100m) at Pukekohe.
Pam Gerard is a bundle of nerves as she gets ready to shoot for her second consecutive victory in next week’s Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton.
There is a sense of déjà vu for Pam Gerard as she navigates a muddled path to this year’s Gr.1 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m), but she is keeping her eye on the prize.
Last year’s Gr.2 James and Annie Sarten Memorial (1400m) set Savaglee up for Group One glory in Christchurch, and Matamata trainer Pam Gerard is hoping to follow a similar blueprint in 2025 with her Yes Yes Yes 3YO Affirmative Action..