YES YES YES Rubick Colt Wins Record Breaking $14 million Everest

20 Oct 19

The Everest (1200m) the world’s richest race on turf, worth $14million was run at Randwick on Saturday and proved a triumph for Coolmore Stud, who part-own the winner YES YES YES and also they stand his sire RUBICK, the heir apparent to Coolmore’s much missed champion sire Encosta de Lago.

YES YES YES winning the Everest

The only three year-old in the field, Yes Yes Yes gained a start in the race after the slot holders first earlier selection Enticing Star failed to come up to expectation.

A Gr2 winner last season as a2yo, Yes Yes Yes was second to Bivouac in his seasonal return in the Gr2 ATC Run to the Rose and then was beaten narrowly by the same colt in the Gr1 ATC Golden Rose over 1400m on September 28.

That tough run over a slightly longer journey than the Everest trip, no doubt helped to season the three-year-old for the pressure cooker of the Everest and with blinkers added and a perfect ride from Glen Boss, he scored a half-length win over race favourite Santa Ana Lane with Trekking in third place.

The world’s best sprinters sizzled over the 1200 metres clocking 1:07.32 seconds, which was a new track record lowering the previous standard by 0.13 sec.

"There is so much at risk. You have to go to the owners in Coolmore Stud plus the original owners as he wasn't my horse,” Waller said.

“You have to suggest it can win an Everest, you can't say you're going to run second and third. Then you have to go to the slot-holders to choose it."
Jockey Glen Boss is in hot form and was delighted to claim another big race win.

"This is huge. What a feeling!" Boss said.

"This takes me back to 2005 (Makybe Diva's 3rd Melbourne Cup).

"He is quality. I galloped him last week. He gave me goosebumps and today he has given me electric shocks. I couldn't believe the electric turn of speed he showed.

“When I peeled out three wide and asked him, his turn of speed was of Group 1 quality only. Jeez he sprinted quickly. His sectionals will say that he did.

A $200,000 Magic Millions purchase for Darren Weir Racing/John Foote Bloodstock Yes Yes Yes runs for a big syndicate of owners with Coolmore joining the party last season prior to the Golden Slipper in which he finished seventh.

Yes Yes Yes might not be a Gr1 winner yet, but there is little doubt that honour will come in due course with his overall record now standing at four wins and three seconds from eight starts with prizemoney of $7.1 million.

“Our family have been racing horses for years, but for me this is the biggest thrill I’ve ever had,” said Tom Magnier.

“We are fortunate to be involved in the sport and we are so thankful.

“We are delighted to be a part of it, my wife might dispute this, but it could be the best day of my life!”

Bred by Arlington Park, Yes Yes Yes is the third winner from as many to race out of the Wellington Boot winner Sin Sin Sin, a half-sister to dual Gr3 AJC The Shorts winner Hot As Hell, the Listed Carrington Stakes winner Flaming Hot and the Hong Kong stakes-winner Craig's Dragon.

This is the famed Vista Anna family nurtured by the Cobcroft family that has also produced current dual Gr1 winner In Her Time and juvenile stakes-winner Harlem River.

Sin Sin Sin has a yearling colt by Sebring, but no foal this spring after missing last season.

Yes Yes Yes was the first winner for his sire Rubick and his first stakes-winner and as an Everest winner will now hold top honour as his highest stakes earner for many years to come.

Rubick was kicking up his heels last Sunday 13 October in anticipation of how good YES YES YES was going !

A Gr2 winning sprinter from the family of Redoute’s Choice, Rubick is a horse that Coolmore stud have supported heavily as the heir to Encosta de Lago and his success is extremely satisfying.

Rubick was the busiest sire in Australia last year covering 263 mares at a fee of $17,600 and this year has had his fee increased to $38,500 on the back of burgeoning racetrack success.