G1 Aussie Season – Best of the Best

Tara Madgwick - Monday June 26

The $700,000 Group I Tatts Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm last Saturday was the last of 74 Australian Group I races run this season that produced 61 individual Group I winners, so let’s take a look at the best of the best.

Click here to see all the Australian G1 winners.

Anamoe was by far and away the best horse in the country this season! - image Grant Courtney

Retiring to Darley in the Hunter Valley this spring, four year-old Street Boss (USA) stallion Anamoe was the most successful G1 horse winning six races at the highest level earning himself a service fee of $121,000!

Other multiple G1 winners were:

3 G1 wins Alligator Blood (6g All Too Hard)

2 G1 wins Coolangatta (3f Written Tycoon)

2 G1 wins Dubai Honour (IRE) (5g Pride of Dubai)

2 G1 wins Giga Kick (3g Scissor Kick)

2 G1 wins In Secret (3f I Am Invincible)

2 G1 wins Jacquinot (3c Rubick)

2 G1 wins Militarize (NZ) (2c Dundeel)

2 G1 wins Think About It (4g So You Think)

The most successful sires with more than one G1 winner are as follows with Waikato Stud’s champion sire Savabeel at the top of the list as the only sire with three G1 winners:

Savabeel was the only sire to produce three G1 winners.

Savabeel – 4g I Wish I Win (NZ), 5m Atishu (NZ), 3g Major Beel (NZ)

Astern – 3f Affaire a Suivre (NZ) , 3c Golden Mile

Dundeel (NZ) – 2c Militarize (NZ), 3g Dunkel (NZ)

Extreme Choice – 4m Espiona, 3f She’s Extreme

I Am Invincible – 3f In Secret, 4m Imperatriz

Kermadec (NZ)– 3f Amokura, 5g Tuvalu

Per Incanto (USA) – 2c Little Brose, 6m Roch ‘n’ Horse (NZ)

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Pride of Dubai - 5g Dubai Honour (IRE), 5m Bella Nipotina

Proisir – 3f Legarto (NZ), 3f Prowess (NZ)

So You Think (NZ) – 4g Think About It, 5m Palaisipan

The most successful broodmare sires of G1 winners are as follows with Vinery Stud’s former much loved shuttler More Than Ready (USA) as the only sire of the dams of three G1 winners :

More Than Ready (USA) sired the dams of three G1 winners.

More Than Ready (USA) – Coolangatta (3f Written Tycoon), Shinzo (2c Snitzel), King Colorado (2c Kingman (GB))

Encosta de Lago – Alligator Blood (6g All Too Hard), Mariamia (6m Toronado (IRE)

Exceed and Excel – Madame Pommry (3f No Nay Never (USA), Tuvalu (5g Kermadec)

Fastnet Rock – Palaisipan (5m So You Think), Zougotcha (3f Zoustar)

Flying Spur – Think About It (4g So You Think), Paulele (4h Dawn Approach (IRE)

Galileo (IRE) – Snapdancer (6m Choisir), No Compromise (NZ) (6g Pins)

O’Reilly (NZ) – Espiona (4m Extreme Choice), Major Beel (NZ) (3g Savabeel)

Redoute’s Choice – Anamoe (4h Street Boss (USA), Artorius (4h Flying Artie)

Country of origin is always interesting and given we are in Australia we expect to see the Aus bred thoroughbreds on top of the table and they are, but not by much and that probably says something about what the Australian thoroughbred is becoming in terms of being distance limited.

The champion European sires such as Frankel, Dubawi, Siyouni and Kingman can get elite horses that perform from sprint distances to the classic trip, but the majority of their Australian counterparts are largely sprinters that produce sprinters. Our champion sires of the past such as Encosta de Lago, Redoute’s Choice and Fastnet Rock were all capable of producing strong milers and Classic type horses, while many of the current equivalent sires cannot.

Australia - 33 G1 winners

New Zealand – 20 G1 winners

European (GB, IRE, FR) - 8 G1 winners

The Everest run over 1200m will be worth $20million later this year and the early favourites will be last year’s winner Giga Kick and I Wish I Win, their pedigrees offering insight into what it takes to be the best sprinter in Australia and quite likely the world!

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