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Results don’t come any better for a new sire than the 2YO black type double recorded by the boom Queensland stallion Better Than Ready at Doomben on Saturday.

Better Than Ready was credited with his first stakes winners when progeny by the Lyndhurst Stud-based stallion won the Listed Phelan Ready Stakes and Listed Calaway Gal Stakes, continuing a run of results that have made the son of More Than Ready a runaway first season sire leader.

Better Than Ready sired his sixth individual winner when Girls Are Ready won at Canterbury on Friday night before The Odyssey and Better Reflection landed the Doomben features on Saturday.

The Kelly Schweida-trained colt The Odyssey (Better Than Ready x Jessica’s Hope by Snitzel) got the ball rolling when he took out the Listed Phelan Ready Stakes before the Rockhampton-trained filly Better Reflection (Better Than Ready x Miraposa by Canny Lad) kept her unbeaten record intact in the Listed Calaway Gal Stakes.

Incredibly another exciting Queensland sire Spirit Of Boom won the same double with two of his first crop runners Ef Troop and Outback Barbie last year on his way to first season sire honours.

Better Than Ready was trained by Schweida to win eight of his 16 starts including four at Listed level before he went to stud in 2014.

The Odyssey and Better Reflection are now set to contest the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast on January 12.

Kelly Schweida bought The Odyssey for $30,000 at the 2018 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale while Better Reflection came out of the Magic Millions March Sale at the Gold Coast where she was secured for only $20,000 by her trainer John Wigginton.

The Odyssey is the first winner from the placed mare Jessica’s Hope, a daughter of the unraced Barents Sea (Sea Hero), a half-sister to European Listed winner Judicial (Law Society).

Jessica’s Hope died last January, leaving a colt by Epaulette who is entered for next month’s Magic Millions sale.

Better Reflection came straight to black type company off her maiden win by five and three quarter lengths at Rockhampton on November 9.

Better Reflection is among five winners from the unraced Miraposa, a daughter of the unraced import Gliding Easy (Easy Goer).

Gliding Easy is a half-sister to Listed winner French Vintage (Mecke) and fellow US stakes-placed Grecian Lover (Friendly Lover) from Grecian Flight (Cormorant) whose 21 wins included the G1 Acorn Stakes.

Better Than Ready stands at the Kruger family’s Lyndhurst Stud and has sired six winners from his first 16 starters.

He has only three lots available at next month’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale at the Gold Coast.

Friday night’s Canterbury winner Girls Are Ready (Better Than Ready x Commanding Epic by Commands) was bought by her trainer Joe Cleary for $30,000 at Book 2 of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale.

Coolmore sire Rubick was credited with his first winner when the promising Magic Millions product Yes Yes Yes won at Flemington on Saturday foir trainer Darren Weir.

Yes Yes Yes (Rubick x Sin Sin Sin by Fantastic Light) was a $200,000 but from the 2018 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale purchase by Weir and John Foote Bloodstock from the Kitchwin Hills draft and had finished runner-up when having his first start at Moonee Valley.

Yes Yes Yes is the third living foal out of Sin Sin Sin, a Wellington Boot winner.

Rubick, a G2 winner by Encosta De Lago, has 16 lots catalogued for the Magic Millions sale in January.