Reward For Effort colt
Dalradian took out the first event in the $5 million Inglis Race Series with a brilliant victory on Cox Plate day at Moonee Valley.
DALRADIAN
The Darren Weir trained youngster had scored on debut at Bendigo and followed up with a fighting win over Valliano and Pearl Congenial in the
RL Inglis Banner (1000m), to earn his first black type victory and maintain his unbeaten record under the guidance of top jockey Brad Rawiller
DALRADIAN (Inside)
Dalradian (2c Reward For Effort – Miss Ireland by O’Reilly) was bred and sold by Chatswood Stud for $55,000 at the 2015 Inglis Melbourne Premier yearling sale.
Dalradian has already earned $189,800 boosted by $41,300 in Inglis and VOBIS bonuses.
Along with prizemoney and bonuses,
Dalradian has earned his connections enviable prizes from Swarovski Optiks and Antler Luggage. Darren Weir received a set of Swarovski Optik EL 42 Swarovision binoculars, and Brad Rawiller received luggage from Antler.
Darren Weir admitted that the bulk of his race success as a trainer weren’t due to two-year-old races but that this colt was particularly special.
“I don’t train many two-year-olds but this boy is the real deal,” Weir said.
“He’s tough, too and there will be no problem backing up in the Maribyrnong Plate at Flemington.
“He’s very precocious with a great temperament and has come through without any problems.”
"This is actually the only two-year-old race I can remember winning – he’s brilliant!” Weir said.
Weir was confident that the
Reward For Effort colt would continue to improve, with his next assignment to be the Group 3 VRC Maribyrnong Plate at Flemington over 1000m on the final day of the Melbourne Cup carnival.
"He’ll be no problem (contesting the Maribyrnong Plate), you normally wouldn’t back a two-year-old like we did with him this week but he’s a tough bugger.”
Dalradian joins a notable list of winners of the Inglis Banner, including the inaugural winner Starspangledbanner and 2014 winner Fontiton, which went on to win two Group races and a Group 1 performance in her two-year-old season.
REWARD FOR EFFORT winning the Gr1 Blue Diamond
The Dynamic Syndications owned and raced the Gr1 Winning Sprinter who was then syndicated for stud duties and placed at Chatswood Stud.
REWARD FOR EFFORT at STUD
Reward For Effort launched his stud career in emphatic style winning the Victorian freshman title and running second on the Australian title.
Incredibly with the win by
Dalradian, after the lucrative result last Saturday he currently
sits on top of this season’s Australian 2YO premiership title by Earnings with $192,600
ahead of Star Witness, Snitzel, Written Tycoon and Hinchinbrook.
This is the Champion Victorian freshman sire’s third stakes winner for the season – (other two stakes winners are Gold Symphony and Take Pride) making him the only second season sire in Australia currently to recorded multiple stakes winners.
Reward For Effort (Exceed And Excel) has averaged over 160 mares in his first four books and he stands for an $11,000 (inc GST) fee at Chatswood Stud. He will cover a book of 180 mares in 2015.
REWARD FOR EFFORT
The buzz around the tracks is
REWARD FOR EFFORT has several highly promising 2yo’s and a dozen or more 3yo’s all ready to step out in coming weeks that have been very impressive in recent jump outs and trials.
He is having a wow of a start to the new season and with 3 Stakes Winners.
From a total of 41 runners to date, Reward For Effort has 17 Individual Winners and 9 Placed runners whilst another 13 runners that have not yet placed have earned prizemoney.
That’s 26 of his 41 runners have finished in the first 3 placegetters 63.4%.
39 of the 41 runners to date have earned prizemoney 95.1%.
It’s fantastic to see
REWARD FOR EFFORT uplifting his mares to produce high quality racing prospects.
Without doubt he is the best value sire in Australia at a fee of just $10,000 + GST.