Shooting To Win, the Group 1-producing son of Northern Meteor, will relocate for 2025, having been purchased by Yarradale Stud.
The 2014 Caulfield Guineas winner has been at Neville Duncan’s Oakland Park Stud since 2022, having previously stood at Darley.
He has made a promising start to his time in WA, finishing third on the WA sires table behind Playing God and Maschino with 71 winners of 130 races for prizemoney in excess of $5.2 million.
Yarradale owner Lyn Sayers and stud manager Davy Hanratty clinched the deal this week with Neville Duncan.
“We’re delighted to stand Shooting To Win and Oakland Park has kept faith with multiple rights to him,” Hanratty said.
“He’s a good looking bull with a stallion’s pedigree and he’s also a proven Group 1 sire in Western Australia with Dom To Shoot in the Northerly Stakes. He turns 14 today so time is on his side, too. War Chant (USA) arrived from Kentucky at the same age and he served 12 books here.”
Shooting To Win is a full brother to Deep Field, who was pensioned from duties at Newgate but is the reigning champion sire of Hong Kong.
Among Shooting To Win’s 12 stakes winners are Group 1 winners Mascarpone and Dom To Shoot. He’s also one of only three stallions standing in WA this season to have sired multiple Group 1 winners alongside Playing God and Manhattan Rain.
“The other positive is that it opens a new door for our clients at a more central location closer to Perth,” Hanratty added. “And we’ve already had some success with Shooting To Win having bred his mares Platinum Shot and Wubin Gold.”
Shooting To Win will stand for a $5,500 service fee alongside Gingerbread Man, who also stands for $5,500.
