Sydney’s Standouts: Top Solo Entries at the Sale

The 2025 APG Sydney Yearling Sale has some yearlings with superb harness racing bloodlines supplied by particular person distributors on February 16. Right here, we take so much at some extra of the potential sale toppers partly 3 of our Sydney Standouts.
Lot 255
Lot 251 (Vendor – Geoff Corrigan)
This filly is by $2.6 million earner Bettors Want and is the primary foal of younger Captaintreacherous mare Slick Sophie (1.53.8, $62K).
Slick Sophie confirmed excellent promise, profitable her first three 2YO begins at Penrith.
She took a time of 1.57.8 in her juvenile 12 months. In all, she received 9 races.
Her dam, Sophies Best (1.53.5, $150K), was additionally an impressive race mare, profitable 16 instances, together with the Vic Tailamade Lombo and the Vic Harness Breeders Mares Championship. She has produced 4 winners at stud.
That is additionally the household of powerful race mares Twice The Pleasure (1.55.4, $179K) and Revais (1.57.8, $116K), who received 39 races within the US between them.
This filly has a double cross of US corridor of fame broodmare Three Diamonds.
Bettors Want is out of Lifetime Star, who’s a three-quarter sister-in-blood to Slick Sophie’s grand sire American Best.
Each hint immediately again to Three Diamonds, who one $735,000 within the early Eighties and created one of many biggest US racing dynasties, together with Everlasting Camnation ($3.7M), 2024 champion mare Twin B Joe Contemporary ($2.3M), Life Signal ($1.9M), Caviart Ally ($1.9M), Luck Be Withyou ($1.4M) and Seven Colours ($1M).
Lot 252 (Vendor – Robert Ross)
This teen is one in every of solely two Artwork Main colts within the Sydney sale.
He’s the primary foal of Somebeachsomewhere mare Soho Osaka, a half sister to Soho Historia (1.54.3, $310K) who received 9 races as a 3YO together with the Qld Oaks.
Their dam, Soho Tokyo (1.54.2, $176K), was an impressive filly. As a 2YO, she was runner-up within the Aust Pacing Gold ultimate, WA Diamond Stakes and the Edgar Tatlow.
She is by Bettors Delight and the outcomes of mixing his bloodlines with Artwork Main are nicely documented and have resulted within the likes of $3.4 million earner Leap To Fame and ID winner Don Hugo.
Third dam Pelicanrama received 55 races – 18 as a 2YO – and $730,000. She left eight winners, together with Soho Leviathon (1.52.4, $327K) and Soho Highroller (1.51.4, $187K).
Lot 255 (Vendor – Helen Head)
This filly is bred to be star. She is by famous person sire Captaintreacherous from twin Vicbred Tremendous Sequence winner Inform Me Tales (1.49.3, $360K).
She is the one yearling within the Sydney sale supplied by revered breeder Helen Head.
Head has been breeding pacers for greater than 40 years. Some diamonds to come back out of her program embrace grand circuit campaigner Safari (1.55.7, $535K), star 2YO and now promising sire The Storm Inside (1.50.7, $311K), Firestorm Purple (1.52, $300K), Tasmanian Derby winner Garnet River (1.50, $555K) and this filly’s dam Inform Me Tales.
This filly’s third dam, Easy Performer (1.58.9, $191K) was 1991 NZ 3YO filly of the 12 months and produced Australian Derby winner Franco Sequel (1.51, $353K).
Captaintreacherous sons had a giant affect on Australian harness racing in 2024. Catch A Wave took his earnings previous $2 million with wins in The Nullarbor and Fremantle Cup in WA.
Captains Knock ($540K) received two heats within the NSW Interdominion sequence in December and completed an unfortunate seventh within the ultimate. He was additionally a finalist within the $2 million The Eureka in September.
And Frankie Ferocious was on hearth early within the season, profitable 5 straight together with The $250,000 Chariots Of Fireplace. He completed fourth within the $1 million Miracle Mile.
Lot 259 (Vendor – Roger Robust & Purchasers)
This colt is by $5 million earner McWicked from Somebeachsomwhere mare Lettucesomwhere (1.56.8, $43K), who has already produced high 2YO Nathan Avenue (P2,1.50.5, $160K).
Nathan Avenue received 5 races in his first season, together with the NSW Breeders Problem ultimate and a semi-final of the Australasian Breeders Crown.
This colt’s grandam, New York Style (1.56.1, $173K) received the 3YO fillies Breeders Problem ultimate and the Bathurst Gold Bracelet.
She left 5 winners and Style Heaven, the dam of high quality gelding Three In Heaven (1.50.8, $217K).
That is the household of 2019 Australian 2YO filly of the 12 months Maajida (1.50.3, $684K) who can be by Somebeachsomewhere.
McWicked had a superb begin to his Australian siring profession, producing 16 2YO winners from his first crop in 2024.
One among his high earners within the US, Wikipedia (1.50.6, $151K) is out of a Somebeachsomewhere mare.
For full particulars of those or some other yearlings within the 2025 Sydney Yearling Sale please go to APG’s On-line Gross sales Catalogue or Register as a Purchaser right now!
From APG Ltd

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