Tuesday, 28 August 2018: Champion sire More Than Ready is unlikely to return for stud duty in Australia in 2019.

The son of Southern Halo, now 21, has been a shuttle fixture at Vinery Stud in the NSW Hunter Valley since 2001.
Vinery’s managing director Peter Orton says the demand for More Than Ready among US breeders would see him reside permanently at Winstar Farm in Kentucky after he completes his coming southern hemisphere season.
“Sadly, this will most likely be his last year in Australia due to his high demand from US breeders,” Orton said.
“He will return to the US at the end of this season where his book is filling already and at a fee nearly twice what he stands for here.

More Than Ready

“He will continue to provide an enormous legacy for us here in Australia with his sons and his daughters.”
More Than Ready is the sire of 190 stakes winners and 23 G1 winners in both hemispheres.
His Australian-bred stars have included eight-time G1 winer More Joyous, Golden Slipper winners Sebring and Phelan Ready, Blue Diamond winner Samaready and Derby winners Benicio, Prized Icon, Eagle Way and Dreamaway.
Last weekend in the US Catholic Boy (More Than Ready x Song Of Bernadette by Bernardini) claimed his first G1 win on dirt in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga for trainer Jonathan Thomas.
Fresh from his narrow G1 Belmont Derby win in New York, the three-year-old showed a devastating turn of foot to pull four lengths clear of Irish raider Mendelssohn (Scat Daddy, with Preakness Stakes runner-up Bravazo (Awesome Again) third.
Catholic Boy has six wins and one placing from nine starts for $US1,842,000 in earnings.