Straight Up – The stats behind another Extreme result
In this edition:
- Run The Numbers – Extreme Choice and the fastest to five
- Rowe on Monday – Yarradale planning for the future, hard work pays off for Upper Bloodstock and Devil Night to move Yulong needle
- National significance – Why a single tote matters so much for Tabcorp and Gillon McLachlan
- Straight Shorts – Tuesday February 25 – King looking ahead to Breeders’ Cup
- Straight Shorts – Monday February 24 – Tasmanian yearling sale struggles for traction, Moncur appointed to key Entain role, Cambridge Stud picks slot runner
- Saturday Shorts: Yulong’s Diamond dazzler, a Silver lining for Godolphin and the ultimate praise for Mr Brightside
The $1.22 million earned through the Blue Diamond victory of Devil Night on Saturday is not enough to yet repay his yearling purchase price of $1.4 million, but Yulong hit the jackpot with their newly minted two-year-old Group 1 winner.
The second most expensive yearling colt by Extreme Choice is now arguably worth in the realms of $15 million as a stallion prospect, not that he’d ever go to market. Yulong now has a readymade stallion son of a sire who is rewriting the record books at every turn.
Extreme Choice now has five individual Group 1 winners from just 116 runners. That 4.31 per cent G1 winners-to-runners rate puts him ahead of global powerhouses such as Galileo, Frankel and Dubawi.
This week’s Run The Numbers digs into his amazing record, which continues to build with every crop.
There were contrasting results at the Perth and Tasmanian Yearling Sales over the last few days. The WA market held up well, albeit slightly off the record results of the past couple of years.
One of the beneficiaries of the strength of the WA market, particularly the heady fortunes of Playing God, has been local operation Yarradale Stud.
Tim Rowe chatted to stud manager Davy Hanratty for his Rowe On Monday column this week, which also featured a conversation with the now former owners of Angel Capital, Upper Bloodstock.
Rowe on Monday
Yarradale planning for the future, hard work pays off for Upper Bloodstock and Devil Night to move Yulong needle
Things weren’t as bright at the sales in Tasmania after a tough day of trade on Monday which saw the aggregate slip below $2 million for the first time in a decade. That led off Monday’s Straight Shorts, while we will have more analysis to come about the Tassie situation, and its national implications, later in the week.
A national tote is high on Gillon McLachlan’s agenda six months into his stint as Tabcorp CEO.
But why does a unified tote approach mean so much, symbolically, to the wagering giant? We have taken a deep dive.
Rachel King’s Breeders’ Cup ambitions off the back of an historic Japanese Group 1 win headline Tuesday’s Straight Shorts segment, while you can reflect on all the latest from Saturday’s feature racing in our Saturday Shorts racing wrap.
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