Timing is all so important

The catalogue for the 2024 Bathurst Yearling Sale is being finalised and sent to the printers.

As TV spy Maxwell Smart would have said – “Missed it by that much!!!”

Last night’s Hobart meeting saw the Steve Lukac trained and Dylan Ford driven Lynryd Skynryd hold off the short-priced favourite Mickey Oh to take out the 2024 Brighton Cup.

Named after ill-fated rock band Lynryd Skynryd, the A Rocknroll Dance gelding has now won 12 races and $114,292 in stakes and is a half-brother to Watching Our Coin which won its 10th race at Gloucester Park last Friday night and took his earnings to $134,092.

Both are half-brothers to Real Desire gelding Blow A Cloud which won in Free-For-All class at Menangle before being sold to the USA where he has added a further 33 wins to his record and lifted his stakemoney to $411,993.

Lot 10 in the 2024 Bathurst Yearling Sale is the first foal from the Rocknroll Hanover mare RNR Windermere p,1:55.4 $80,702 which is a three-quarter sister to Lynryd Skynryd.

Lot 10 is being offered on account of Sandy Lodge and is a colt by the celebrated American pacer McWicked which retired with a record of 1:46.4 and stakes of $5,103,271. McWicked’s first Australasian foals will race in 2024.

This colt is being prepared for the sale at Bathurst on March 24th by Melissa Hawke and pre-sale inspection can be arranged by contacting Melissa on 0409 624 162.

For full details and catalogued yearlings in the five Nutrien Standardbred 2024 Yearling Sales, click here.

by Alan Parker for Nutrien Equine Standardbred