Warrawee Needy the percentage sire

When the three-year-old filly Needyazell overcame a torrid passage to prevail at only her second start at Wagga last Friday (August 27) she became the 17th individual winner from the first Australian crop of the former world champion Warrawee Needy.

The Yirribee Pacing Stud stallion has produced 17 winners from 47 foals – an excellent 36 per cent strike rate.

On the same day the Warrawee Needy two-year-old filly Flare Up, who was bred by Yirribee Stud, registered her third success from four starts with a 1:58.6 romp at Newcastle.

Warrawee Needy was also represented by the Canadian winner Heresthatmanagain (1:59).

The North America Cup winner Fear The Dragon, whose frozen semen is available in Australia through Yirribee Stud, produced another fast two-year-old winner in Odds On Capitalism, who won in 1:54.4 at Scioto Downs, Ohio.

Fear The Dragon has sired the winners of $635,000 from his first American crop and is the third leading first season sire.

Tintin In America left important winners in both hemispheres this week. Tims A Trooper (1:55.7) became his sixth individual two-year-old winner this season when he emerged successful at Albion Park, while Nimah Franco NZ won in a new lifetime mark of 1:52 at Harrah’s Philadelphia.

Other stud-sired winners were Yo Te Am Haitch (by Renaissance Man), who her sixth race at Gloucester Park, and Waiting For Love (by Million Dollar Cam), a winner in a career-best 1:54.9 at Newcastle.

By Peter Wharton for Harnesslink