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On a big weekend for
Vinery Sires with Testa Rossa mare Ortensia winning at Glorious Goodwood,
Congrats filly Emma's Encore claiming her first Group I and Brown Almighty
claiming a US Stakes race for first crop sire Big Brown – perhaps the biggest
result for Vinery's roster was the 100th stakes-winner for star sire More Than
Ready (USA).
More Than Ready joined thoroughbred breeding elite when he sired his 100th and
101st individual stakeswinner's on the weekend.
More Than Ready went into Saturday on 99 stakeswinner's, but raised the 'ton'
with not one but two new black-type winners namely Maybe So and Promise Me More.
Fittingly, both were two year olds.
His 100th Stakes winner was the undfeated two year old colt, Maybe So.
After jumping well and settling in third, just behind the favorite, Maybe So
challenged the lead at the quarter pole and outgamed his rival's in a
stretchlong duel to win the $100,000 Mountaineer Juvenile Stakes by a neck.
More Than Ready is the fourth youngest sire in history to join the exclusive
'100 Club' whose members include the likes of Danehill, Sadler's Wells, Mr
Prospector, Northern Dancer, Danzig, Sunday Silence and Vinery's own Red
Ransom.
More Than Ready has twice been crowned Australia's Leading Sire of 2YO's, an
honour which he emulated in the USA in 2010 after siring the winners of both
divisions of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (Pluck and More Than Real).
Described by champion trainer Gai Waterhouse as 'the best sire since Star Kingdom',
More Than Ready has left an indelible imprint on the world's richest
two-year-old race, the Golden Slipper.
Apart from siring the winners in 2008 (Sebring) and 2009 (Phelan Ready), More
Than Ready then sired placegetters More Strawberries (2010), Elite Falls (2011)
and Samaready this year when responsible for 5 of the 16 runner's.
As great a juvenile sire as he clearly is, More Than Ready didn't get to 100
without his share of 'older' horses. A number of "first time''
stakeswinners that were aged seven at the time.
Indeed, More Than Ready has sired stakeswinners from 1000m to 2400m and boasts
Derby, Oaks and Breeder's Cup victories amongst his tally.
No More Than Ready runner represents her sire better than More Joyous (pictured) who took
her tally of Group 1 wins to eight when she swept through the autumn carnival
undefeated.
More Joyous won her first start as a 2YO by 5-lens beating subsequent Group
winner Hurtle Myrtle and has won at the highest level from 1200m to 2000m under
both WFA and Handicap conditions.
More Than Ready stands at Vinery Stud in the Hunter Valley at a 2012 Service
Fee of $121,000 inc GST.
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