Horse Overview

We thought this colt was the pick of the Yarramalong Park draft. He’s got everything we want to see in a horse. A well grown colt that’s correct, he has a balanced and fluent action with a laid-back shoulder, big barrel and strong hind. Better than Ready continues to produce plenty of winners and of good races. The colt’s dam is by Street Cry who was a champion sire, and he looks to be just as good as a dam sire.

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Monthly fees are $210 from the 1st of July 2024.

An outstanding sprinting son of the star stallion More Than Ready, Better Than Ready won eight of his 16 starts with half of his victories coming at stakes level.

A horse who hit the ground running as a stallion, Better Than Ready is proving a terrific source of winners with an excellent strike rate of 65.1% and progeny earnings in excess of $38.9 million.

Nine of his progeny are stakes winners and they are horses who really know how to find the line. His Gr.1 Kingsford-Smith Cup winning son Apache Chase a nine times winner, and his now at stud son The Odyssey winning ten races. His stakes winners average 5.6 wins each and they can show up early – and race on.

Better Than Ready is Australia’s sixth leading stallion by numbers of winners and he is in elite company – above him only Zoustar, I Am Invincible, Deep Field, Written Tycoon and Capitalist – and below him the likes of Dundeel, Snitzel, So You Think, Toronado and Pierro.

OUT OF ONE FIRE BEACH – STRENGTH OF FAMILY

A city placed two times winner, One Fire Beach a 250k yearling purchase by Anthony Cummings is a daughter of the outstanding shuttling success story Street Cry. The sire of of the mighty Winx who won 25 Gr.1s along with over $26 million in prize money. But he’s no one horse stallion – siring 133 stakes winners; 25 Individual Gr.1 winners including another superstar in Zenyatta won 19 of her 20 starts including 13 Gr.1s and $7 million in the US.

And what an outstanding broodmare sire he is; currently third in the Australian sire charts behind Encosta De Lago and Fastnet Rock but with nearly half as many runners. Street Cry’s daughters have produced 155 stakes winners; with 25 Gr.1 winners including the Gr.1 W.S Cox Plate hero Romantic Warrior.

This imposing, handsome colt is just the second foal for One Fire Beach whose first – the yet to race three-year-old Invader filly Koyu Beach is a recent jump-out winner.

One Fire Beach is one of the six winners (from as many foals to race) for the Gr.3 Tesio Stakes winning Flying Spur mare Maslins Beach – also dam of the stakes placed Salmanazar and fellow city winners Lord Coconuts and Honey Go Lightly.

Maslins Beach’s stakes winning dam New Acquaintance also did a great job at stud, also producing the Gr.1 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Knowledge.

This is a family which has been producing high class performers for generations – the big race winners Igloo and Midnight Fever hailing from the same branch of the internationally prolific Lady Josephine family; so well represented in this part of the world by Eight Carat and her high class descendants.

PEDIGREE NOTES
This colt brings together Halo (twice), Northern Dancer (four times), Danehill and Machiavellian – noting that each of those outstanding stallions hails from the same prolific family; providing four crosses of the wonderful mares Natalma and her dam Almahmoud.

Four of Better Than Ready’s stakes winners are out of mares carrying a strain of Danehill who appears in this colt’s pedigree via one of his finest sons – the Gr.1 Golden Slipper winning high class stallion Flying Spur.

Better Than Ready carries strains of the influential stallions Nasrullah, Mahmoud, Fair Trial and Kalamoun whilst One Fire Beach has further Nasrullah, Mahmoud and Fair Trial as well as Royal Charger, all descendants of this colt’s acclaimed ancestress Lady Josephine.

BREEDERS – YARRAMALONG PARK
Yarramalong Park are the breeders who syndicated Better Than Ready to stand at Lyndhurst Stud. They’re situated in the perfectly named Scenic Rim which is prime Queensland thoroughbred territory. The stud have a strong record of breeding and raising quality performers such as Alpine Edge, Better Reflection, The Vowels and Chrysaor – some of Better Than Ready’s most successful progeny.