LEADING TROTTING STALLIONS RELOCATE TO QUEENSLAND
The opportunity to compete in the $4 million QBred For Life scheme with first win bonuses of $14,000, second win bonuses worth $7,500 and third win bonuses of $3,000 and the numerous age classics including the $50,000 QBred Finals for two and three-year-olds, the $25,000 Final for four-year-olds and the $20,700 Springboard Series for two and three-year-olds is the incentive to breed to two well known trotting stallions standing for the first time in Queensland this season.
The duo are the proved French bred sire Used To Me and the former Australian 2YO Trotting Colt of the Year Always Ready, who are based at Pete and Chantal McMullen’s Somerset Farms under the banner of Victorian trotting giant Haras Des Trotteurs.
Used To Me needs no introduction to breeders being the sire of the Vicbred champions Don’t Care and Gardena Ronda (photo), and other talented trotters including My Used To Be, the NSW Carousel victor Familiar Tricks, the Listed winner Queen Of Quebec, Used To Be A Maid (APG 3YO Sales Classic), the multiple Group placegetter Imsettogo, Taylad To Use, Izarra (Redcliffe Cup) and Avant Guard.
Gardena Ronda (Used To Me)
Actually, Used To Me can boast rather an amazing siring record from limited stud chances. He has left 40 individual winners from 55 starters – a 75 percent strike rate – and a 50 percent ratio of winners-to-foals.
He has sired the winners of almost $2 million at a tremendous average of $36,000 per starter.
A Group winner in France and Australia, Used To Me banked $649,435 from eight wins and 12 placings, competing at the elite level in both countries.
He is a member of the Speedy Crown sireline – that which produced Muscles Yankee - from a mare by Coktail Jet, the sire of Europe’s champion stallion Love You and a member of the same family as the Grand Prix d’Amerique winners Ourasi and Oyonnax, the millionaire Ecurie D and Daguet Rapide (European Derby).
Always Ready, who was bred and raced by Haras Des Trotteurs principal Pat Driscoll, won four of his eight starts as a two-year-old and was the best of his age, gait and sex of his year. Among his successes were the Vicbred Final, the Tatlow Stakes and a heat of the Breeders Crown (3rd in final), while he was placed in The Redwood and Vicbred Platinum Classic.
Following an injury which sidelined him for his entire three-year-old career, Always Ready returned to the fray at four winning his first five starts and 11 of his 15 starts at that age including the Vicbred and Breeders Crown Finals.
Always Ready finished up with a stake tally of $306,360 and a mile record of 1:56.
Always Ready
On the score of blood Always Ready has more in his favour than most. His sire Ready Cash (1:53.1) was a champion with stake earnings of $6.1 million and has been one of Europe’s top sires for some time.
Class Of Her Own, the dam of Always Ready, ranked as a half-sister to the six-time Group 1 winner Let Me Thru ($453,945) and the cups winner Lord Liam ($281,550), being by Yankee Paco from the grand producer Invasion’s Pride, by Armbro Invasion from the outstanding NZ racemare Landora’s Pride, a winner of 34 races including the Rowe Cup and Dominion Handicap and $472,842 in stakes.
Always Ready’s oldest stock are two-year-olds.
Contact the team!
Louise Toulmin: +61 428 792 834 | louise@harasdestrotteurs.com.au
Georgia Lowry: +61 405 267 299 | georgia@yabbydamracing.com
Pat Driscoll: +61 414 975 376 | pat@harasdestrotteurs.com.au