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The major Australian sires premierships are done and dusted for 2015/16 except for the prestigious category of leading first season stallion – and going into the last week of the season it remains a five corner contest
With the title decided by prizemoney - although many will judge it by winners and wins – there is less than $30,000 separating the leader Love Conquers All ($451,700) from fifth placed Sepoy ($423,740).
In between are Smart Missile ($449,405), Dream Ahead ($446,540) and Pour Moi ($22,400), which means any of the five stallions can claim the title if they can produce at least one metropolitan winner in the final week.The table has a different look if sorted by winners and wins.
Love Conquers All and Sidereus share the lead by individual winners with eight each, one more than Smart Missile.However Sidereus is a clear leader by wins, his progeny having won 13 races to nine by Love Conquers All. Smart Missile and Foxwedge (six winners) are next with seven wins each.
The anomaly is Sidereus’ progeny have won only $390,270, leaving him in sixth place by prizemoney with Foxwedge seventh with $351,525.The late Street Cry will take the title of Australia’s champion sire by prizemoney, thanks largely to his champion mare Winx, by some $600,000 from Not A Single Doubt.
Street Cry sits on $12,926,534 with Winx contributing $5,627,500 of his seasonal earnings from his 84 winners of 143 races. He will also be recognised as the leading sire by stakes wins (22) from Not A Single Doubt (21), Fastnet Rock (18), Redoute’s Choice (18) and Exceed And Excel (15).Not A Single Doubt’s progeny have won $12,334,856 but he will be recognised as Australia’s champion sire by winners (153) and wins (253) after a massive season for the son of Redoute’s Choice led by his Blue Diamond Stakes winner Extreme Choice ($1,349,750).
The top five by prizemoney are rounded out by boom sire Written Tycoon ($10,012,743) and past title winners Fastnet Rock ($9,632,912) and Lonhro ($9,033,195).The top five by wins and winners are Not A Single Doubt (153/253); Lonhro (130/228); Written Tycoon (130/22); Snitzel (129/201) and Fastnet Rock (124/200).
Written Tycoon will claim the Champion 2YO Sire title for the first time with juvenile earnings of $4,337,706, his Magic Milions Classic and Golden Slipper winner Capitalist contributing $3,508,700.The top five juvenile sires by prizemoney are Written Tycoon; Sniztel ($2,436,105); Not A Single Doubt ($2,242,015); All American ($1,704,090); and Artie Schiller ($1,457,100).
However it’s a very different list when assessed by wins and winners with Snitzel out in front after his record season of 29 winners of 38 races around Australia.The top five by 2YO winners are Snitzel (29), More Than Ready (14), Sebring (14), I Am Invincible (14) and Not A Single Doubt (13). By wins its Snitzel (38) from Written Tycoon (21), Hinchinbrook (18), More Than Ready (18) and Sebring (18).
Redoute’s Choice holds the lead as Australia’s leading sire of individual stakes winners (13) ahead of Street Cry (12), Not A Single Doubt (12), Fastnet Rock (12) and Exceed And Excel (11).Other sire category standings at July 24:
LEADING BROODMARE SIRES: Encosta de Lago ($16,493,439); Zabeel ($14,775,594); Danehill ($12,886,237); Flying Spur ($11,596,550); Redoute's Choice ( $9,939,519).LEADING SECOND SEASON SIRES: Hinchinbrook ($4,183,393); Star Witness ($2,138,335); Beneteau ($2,083,746); Rothesay ($2,032,378); Reward For Effort ($2,001,713).
LEADING 3YO SIRES: Not A Single Doubt ($4,547,398); Lonhro ($3,666,856); Street Cry ($3,443,166); Sebring ($3,407,441); More Than Ready ($3,367,356).- Statistics at July 24 courtesy of Arion Pedigrees
