The champion racehorse and sire Always B Miki is returning to Alabar Bloodstock for the coming season after spending last year on the sidelines owing to reoccurrence of a leg injury.
He will bolster the stallion roster at the Koyuga-based stud to 12.
The leading sire of Group 1 winners in Australia for the last two seasons, Always B Miki has left the winners of $15 million in Australia to date at an average of $43,000 per starter.
He finished fourth on the all aged list in 2025 and was the premier sire of three-year-old winners and is currently ranked fourth on the stakemoney table.
Alabar general manager Brett Coffey said: “Always B Miki collected normally this season in America and will enter quarantine in the next couple of weeks to begin the journey back down to Australia.
“We’re absolutely thrilled to welcome Always B Miki back to Alabar.
“Always B Miki has established himself as one of the world’s premier pacing sires and his results continue to speak for themselves. To have him available to Australian and New Zealand breeders again is incredibly exciting, and we’ve already had a tremendous amount of interest.”
The Alabar lineup features a mix of proven sires and young, emerging stallions.
The 2022 USA 3YO Colt of the Year Pebble Beach, whose first North American crop has made an immediate impact as two-year-olds, is lining up for his fourth ‘down under’ season.
The Alabar roster is headed up by the thrice premier pacing sire Art Major and the leading trotting stallion for the last 10 years, Majestic Son.
The lineup also includes the perennial Top Ten sire Rock N Roll Heaven, the promising Captaintreacherous import Captain Crunch¸ the well performed colonial breds Vincent, Ride High and The Storm Inside, the Hambletonian winner Tactical Approach (frozen semen), Volstead, the sire of champion Keayang Zahara, and last season’s leading two-year-old trotting sire Elite Stride.
“This is one of the strongest and most balanced rosters we’ve ever assembled,” Coffey stated.
- Four winners on the opening night of the Brisbane Inter Dominion carnival were bred in Victoria including the heat winners Bay Of Biscay, Rockinwithattitude and Gotfeelingsyouknow, Jilliby Dreamlover (The Great Square) and Jacwill Kid (Paleface Adios Classic)
- Chris O’Connor, the president of the Terang Harness Racing Club, bred and races the very impressive Melton winner Le Cardinal
- Popular Shepparton identity Chrissie Gill bred and owned Oh Sweet Creature, a winner at the club’s recent midweek meeting
