Six of the 10 newly crowned APG Yearling Sales Vicbred Super Series champions carry the blood of previous winners of the time-honoured classic.
Its Confidential, the winner of the $100,000 Final for three-year-old colts and geldings, is a son of the dual Vicbred champion Poster Boy and Speak No Evil, the three-year-old fillies’ champion in 2018. Both were bred and raced by Bill and Anne Anderson’s Lauriston Bloodstock, who also bred Its Confidential.
Keayang Zahara, who added the four-year-old title to her three-year-old triumph 12 months earlier, is a member of the prized Maori Miss tribe, which has produced no less than 20 individual Vicbred Final winners.
The list includes Spidergirl and Noopy Kiosk, who both made a clean sweep of the series, and dual winners Blitzthemcalder, Danny Bouchea, Kinvara Sue, Maori’s Glory and now Keayang Zahara.
The unbeaten two-year-old fillies’ Final victor Arrhythmia is a close relative of three past Vicbred champions in Miki To Success (3YO C&G – 2024), Yejele Hammer (2YO C&G- 2019) and Her Sparky Self (3YOF – 2001), while Mecarno, who won the $60,000 decider for the three-year-old male trotters, is out of a half-sister to the 1994 four-year-old heroine Ghia.
I Am Wilma, the winner of the three-year-old trotting fillies’ section, is closely related to a pair of pacing final winners in Menin Gate (3YO C&G – 2015) and Rocknrolla (2YOF – 2009 and 3YOF – 2010).
While the two-year-old male trotting final winner Keayang Bazlenka, one of two new Vicbred champions bred and raced by the Lee clan from the western district, is from the same family as the 2016 four-year-old winner Sparkling Success.
On the paternal side, Somebeachsomewhere lifted his tally of Vicbred champions to 10 courtesy of the star three-year-old filly Beach Diamond, Volstead sired his third Final winner in Keayang Zahara, while What The Hill (Keayang Bazlanka and Hilltop Hugh) and Father Patrick (I Am Wilma) were both represented by their second winners.
Captain Crunch (Soho Trump), Vincent (Arrhythmia), Poster Boy (Its Confidential), Tactical Landing (Mecarno) and Helpisontheway (Harperseven) all sired their first Vicbred Final winners.
- Aldebaran Park bred the quinella pair, Harperseven and Aldebaran Ada, in the Group 1 $60,000 Vicbred Super Series Final for two-year-old trotting fillies
- The broodmare Shadow Scooter, bred and owned by the Dunn family, came within a whisker of landing rather a notable double when Forty Love was edged out in the $100,000 Vicbred Super Series 3YO final. Two nights earlier his younger half-brother Scooter Lou broke through for his first success at Ballarat
- Harness Racing Victoria paid out $362,500 in Vicbred First Win bonuses to connections during October including $140,000 for two-year-olds
