Three millionaires at heart of For Us All’s pedigree

Standardbred broodmares with one millionaire in their pedigree are as scare as hen’s teeth, but when a harness racing mare has three millionaires close up in her family tree then that’s something the breeding pundits would salivate over.

The broodmare in question is the four-year-old Bettor’s Delight mare For Us All.

Retired after winning twice as a three-year-old, a curtailed racing career hasn’t done much to hinder her appeal as a broodmare prospect, and she will likely be the subject of much interest when the Australian Pacing Gold Online Mixed National Sale opens at 12 noon on Friday, August 2 and concludes at 5pm on Sunday, August 4.

For Us All is Lot 88 in the catalogue and is being offered by Hollymount Stud, Kiama (NSW).

Apart from being by Bettor’s Delight, the leading money-winning sire of all-time, For Us All is out of the broodmare Left For Me, a daughter of the seven-time premier Australian sire Fake Left.

Left For Me, who took a record of 1:59, left 10 foals for nine winners – all inside 2:00 – and they have earned $1.82 million between them.

Undoubtedly the best of Left For Me’s progeny is the Victoria Cup and dual Derby winner For A Reason (1:49.4), a winner of 27 races and $1,111,470 in stakes. He is now the leading colonial bred stallion in the country.

However, the deeds of one of Left For Me’s daughters in Lettucereason (by Art Major) have far surpassed those of her dam.

The winner of $180,073 and a smart racemare in her own right, Lettucereason ranks as the dam of the superstar pacer Leap To Fame (by Bettor’s Delight), the winner of $3,194,685 and the reigning Horse of the Year and Grand Circuit champion, and his outstanding half-brother Swayzee ($1,009,543), last year’s NZ Cup winner.

Interestingly, Left For Me and her family members occupy a single page of the sale catalogue with no less than 15 ‘black type’ performers descending from her.

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink