More Than Ready had another wonderful weekend having gone
back-to-back with a juvenile stakes-winning double for the second Saturday in a row !
Ready For Victory became the 138th stakes winner for MORE THAN READY with a debut victory in the Festival Of Racing LR over 1000m at Flemington.
Just a few hours later in South Africa, his debutant
2yo Entisaar became the 139th Stakes Winner in winning the Ruffian Stakes LR at Turffontein.
Entisaar also became MORE THAN READY’S 1,300th individual winner milestone.
It was only the previous Saturday, two year-old
Always Allison (Gr3 Sweet Embrace Stakes) and the exciting 2yo Haybah (LR Cinderella Stakes) had saluted, becoming their sire’s 136th and 137th stakes winners.
Ready For Victory (2c by More Than Ready – Crillon by Zabeel) came from behind to catch speedy filly Heatherly down the Flemington straight, to earn a probable trip to Sydney for the Gr1 Golden Slipper.
"It’s a very big task but you certainly can’t win it sitting at home,” trainer Mick Price said.
"I had him ready for the Blue Diamond but he caught a cold.”
A $240,000 yearling purchase for Eliza Park’s Sun International owner Cheung Ting Kong, Ready For Victory is from a half-sister to Gr1 AJC Champagne Stakes winner Meurice.
"We were disappointed missing the Blue Diamond but had to be patient,” Price said.
"Sun International purchase these colts with a view to running them in the better races and we will make a decision about the Golden Slipper this week.”
Ready For Victory collected $72,000 at his first appearance and that should help him qualify for the Golden Slipper at Rosehill on March 21. He has firmed into $15 for the $3.50 million stallion-making race.
More Than Ready filly Entisaar won in similar style to her Aussie counterpart when taking the LR Ruffian Stakes (1000m). The speed was on from the outset with Speedy Suzie lengths clear until run down by the latest rising star for Sheikh Hamdan & trainer Mike De Kock. Entisaar was a $300,000 purchase at the 2014 Inglis Easter yearling sale.
"You’re never sure how they will behave but we believed she was good enough to run in a feature first time out,” stable foreman Mathew de Kock said. "We had seen enough at home to know she would be competitive.”
Back at Randwick,
classy filly Nayeli added more black-type for More Than Ready when claiming the Fireball Quality LR (1100m) race 9, on Saturday.
"Her work has been nothing short of sensational,” trainer Gai Waterhouse said.
"I just think she's started to mature and it showed today.”
Nayeli (3f More Than Ready - Wasimah by Danehill) had won the Gr3 Chairman’s Stakes at Caulfield this time last year but disappointed during a short spring prep. She started as an outsider first-up and took advantage of a rails run to set up an autumn campaign that includes the Gr2 Arrowfield 3YO Sprint (1200m) back at Randwick on April 11.
Dynamic Syndications has made it our mission to purchase the best MORE THAN READY progeny we could at the 2015 yearling sales and we have achieved wonderful results, which we are now in a position to pass on to our owners.
We have purchased 3 High Quality Yearlings – All in the care of GAI WATERHOUSE:
MORE THAN READY / VINTEDGE (By Flying Spur) Bay Filly
- Daughter of the outstanding Gr2 & LR Winner VINTEDGE - 6 race wins & $610,210
MORE THAN READY / MOONFLUTE (By Danehill) Bay Colt
- Son of superb Gr3 Winning and Gr1 placed mare & earnings of $229,550
MORE THAN READY / AQUA D’AMORE (By Danehill) Brown Filly
- Daughter of sensational Gai Waterhouse trained Gr1, Gr2, Gr3 Winner of 9 races and multiple Gr1 placed, with earnings of $1,936,850
There are no better bred, better conformed nor commercially valuable
MORE THAN READY yearlings available in Australia and importantly, two are out of daughters
Danehill and one is out of a
Flying Spur mare (a son of Danehill).
This is the cross, out of
Danehill line mares, which is the most successful cross in the
Australian Stud Book for MORE THAN READY.
The cross has produced
26 Stakes Winners including 5 Gr1 Winners: SEBRING, BENICIO, DREAMAWAY, MORE THAN SACRED, PERFECTLY READY as well as two of the sire’s most recent stakes winners this past week:
HAYBAH (Cinderella S. LR) and NAYELI (Fireball Q. LR).
MORE THAN READY is the sire astute buyers appreciate and respect.
With 139 Stakes Winners and 1,300 individual winners the stats speak for themselves. If owners want winners they buy MORE THAN READY’S especially out of Danehill line mares.
Our 3 MORE THAN READY Yearlings will be on display at our OPEN DAY with Gai Waterhouse - SUNDAY 15 March