“She’s definitely the best filly I’ve bred and she’s the best horse I’ve bred and raced.”
The speaker is Buln Buln breeder-owner Greg Fusinato after watching his homebred filly Cyclone Jenni score a dominant win on debut in the Benstud Standardbreds Youthful Stakes at Melton.
“She’s got high speed which will take her a long way,” Greg said.
Cyclone Jenni is the seventh foal and sixth winner left by her dam, Cyclone Betty.
“Cyclone Betty was passed in at the yearling sales and I bought her out of the paddock a week later for $14,000. It’s the best $14,000 I’ve ever spent!” Fusinato said.
“She was one of the first frozen semen crop of Bettor’s Delight.”
Cyclone Betty’s progeny have amassed just shy of $2 million in stakes between them.
Unquestionably the best of her offspring is the former crack juvenile Our Waikiki Beach ($1,104,113), a five-time Group 1 winner and the Australian 2YO and 3YO Colt of the Year.
Bechers Brook, the winner of 36 races and $599,346 and runner-up to King Of Swing in the WA Derby, and the prolific Perth winner Valentine’s Brook ($269,284), were others left by Cyclone Betty. Bechers Brook won again at Northfield Park, Ohio, on Monday night in 1:53.8.
“We lost three of her foals either at birth or six months old – two by Somebeachsomewhere and one by Captaintreacherous,” Greg said.
Since producing Cyclone Jenni (by Captaintreacherous) in 2022, Cyclone Betty, who is now in her 22nd year, has left a weanling filly by Stay Hungry and has a positive test to King Of Swing.
“I’m only breeding from two mares now – Cyclone Betty and her daughter Kiki Beach, who has a Bulldog Hanover filly which will be nominated for the Nutrien Equine Yearling Sale next April,” Greg said.
Cyclone Jenni, a member of the Gary and Debbie Quinlan team, will have her next start in the Tatlow Stakes at Melton on September 6 before being tilted at the Vicbred Super Series and Breeders Crown.
- The Dunn family from the Western district took the breeding honours at Melton on Saturday with a winning double via the promising three-year-olds Forty Love and Ruff Nut
- Covered In Gold, a two-year-old winner at the Cranbourne twilight meeting, is the ninth winner of the American-bred mare Smyrna Duruisseau, who was imported by Bill and Anne Anderson
- The Alabar Bloodstock stallion Ride High, this year’s leading first crop sire, was credited with his initial Group 1 winner in Ride The Highs, an effortless winner of the $150,000 QBred Triad Final for two-year-old fillies at Albion Park recently
