Black Jack Baby tops $200,000

Glamour three-year-old filly Black Jack Baby, a daughter of former NZ and Australian 2YO of the Year Follow The Stars, now standing at Darren Reay’s Medowie Lodge stud, near Newcastle, tipped her stake earnings to beyond $200,000 when she won at Gloucester Park last Friday night (July 16).

The filly led from end-to-end in a 1:57.7 rate over 2130 metres with the final 800 in a blazing 55.4 seconds.

Black Jack Baby, the richest progeny of Follow The Stars, led in a quinella for her sire with Our Star Billing finishing runner-up.

Black Jack Baby has won 13 of her 26 starts to date including the Group 1 $80,000 Westbred Classic as a two-year-old.

Follow The Stars was also recently represented by the Gloucester Park two-year-old winner See The World, who sat in the ‘death’ before scoring her second success, the Pinjarra three-year-old winner Chance Eclipse (1:59.5) and a pair of four-year-olds, Beejay Star (Gloucester Park) and Mollidor (Tamworth).

Follow The Stars is clearly the leading NSW based two-year-old sire this season with seven individual winners – including the Group 2 $60,000 WA Champagne Classic winner Bushwacked and the Westsired Classic winner Follow The Music – for $186,000 in progeny earnings.

In all, Follow The Stars has sired 61 individual winners from 112 starters for $1.7 million in stake earnings from only three racing crops. In his first season he left 60 foals, and of these he had 37 to the races half way through their four-year-old season, and 29 were winners.

From his second crop he has left 54 starters, of which 25 have been winners.

By Peter Wharton