Strong Yirribee Stud entry for Bathurst

Yirribee Pacing Stud, Wagga will offer 14 yearlings – the equal highest draft – at next Sunday's Bathurst Gold Crown Yearling Sale.

The consignment comprises two lots by champion USA mare Shartin's sire Tintin in America, three by the Little Brown Jug winner Million Dollar Cam, four by the Victoria Cup hero Caribbean Blaster, three by former champion juvenile Lombo Pocket Watch and one each by world champion Warrawee Needy and NZ 3YO of the Year Stunin Cullen.

It includes a Million Dollar Cam colt from the NSW Oaks placegetter Eternal Love, a Caribbean Blaster colt out of the Bathurst Sales Classic winner Icy River, a Million Dollar Cam filly from the multiple Group placegetter Lombo Mona Lisa, a Warrawee Needy colt from a Mach Three half-sister to two $100,000 earners, and a Caribbean Blaster colt out of the Albion Park winner Swing With A Star (1:56.1).

There's close relatives to the NSW Sires Stakes champions Muddy River and Conrod Straight, the Bathurst Gold Tiara winner Boa Vista Lombo, Dream About Me (NSW Breeders Plate), 3YO of the Year Sir Galvinator, the triple Oaks winner Concorde Lombo, Lord Lombo ($286,504), 2YO of the Year Lombo Skyrider (1:50) and the NSW Sires semi winner Outa Neutral.

On the racetrack, the promising Lombo Pocket Watch gelding Watched From Above provided the highlight winning the HRNSW Reward Series Final at Bathurst.

Other winners were Our Mista Halle (by Million Dollar Cam), a winner at Gloucester Park in 1:58.3, and the Yirribee Pacing Stud bred three-year-old filly Kahliadenise Lombo (1:56.2, Newcastle) and King Fisher (1:57.4, Leeton).

By Peter Wharton