Readily Availabull (Aus)
Readily Availabull (AUS)
2 c Bull Point – Readily by More Than Ready
O: Ms W L Beckett, Mrs M A Carroll, Mrs F A Chapmon, Miss S E Vosper, Mrs S A Sargent, Miss L J Sargent, Miss N Carter, Mrs S Carter, Mrs E L Chalker, Mrs M P Don, Mrs C J Saleh, Miss C J Russell, Mrs L Russell, Miss A M Vosper
B: J Bridges
T: John Sargent
S: 2020 Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale V: Armidale Stud P: John Sargent Racing/Mitchell Bloodstock, $25,000
W: Magic Millions 2YO Clockwise Classic, 1000m, November 21, Ballarat
Second season sire Bull Point (Fastnet Rock) has only had a handful of runners to date, but he has already produced nine winners, including the Listed-placed Encountabull for trainer John Sargent.
The Kingstar Farm stallion, something of an enigma on the racetrack but also incredibly talented on his day, looks poised to strike further success this season after last Saturday’s win by Encountabull’s stablemate Readily Availabull in the Magic Millions 2YO Clockwise Classic (1000m) at Ballarat.
The Magic Millions 2YO Clockwise Classic, the only race in Victoria to be contested right-handed, has not been a strong pointer since it was first run in 2012 with only one winner going on to win a stakes race – The Goodwood (Gr 1, 1200m) victor Despatch (Written Tycoon).
Five of the eight winners have progressed to the Magic Millions 2YO Classic (RL, 1200m) at the Gold Coast, with only one – Carriages (Hinchinbrook), who ran eighth in 2015 – finishing closer than 13th.
However, Readily Availabull looks poised to improve on that record after his last–stride success in the $250,000 feature over Prince Amongst Men (Winning Rupert), with Rambeau (Brazen Beau) back in third.
It was a piece of shrewd programming by the Warwick Farm-based Sargent, with his charge all but assured a spot in the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic in January. He will be racing for extra prize-money there too, being owned by an all women’s syndicate.
“I went to the Ballarat Cup meeting a couple of years ago and I saw this race and thought that I’d like to find a horse and train it up to win it,” Sargent told Racing.com. “When he worked well during the week, I thought that this would be a good chance to do it.”
Rider Michael Dee added: “What gets him across the line is his temperament. He’s just a lovely, relaxed colt. That’s going to take him a long way.
“He can improve, bearing in mind that it’s only his first start. He didn’t have as much speed as the others, so that just shows that in time he could get over slightly further and relax and show a good turn-of-foot.”
Sargent bought Readily Availabull for just $25,000 from this year’s Magic Millions Tasmanian Yearling Sale, having been impressed by then-juvenile Encountabull.
The Armidale Stud-consigned Readily Availabull has already recouped his purchase price, with the $139,700 winners’ cheque easily covering the outlay.
Readily Availabull is the second winner from four runners out of Sydney metropolitan winner Readily (More Than Ready); her other winner, Sixty One Tigers (Rothesay), finished seventh in a Clermont Benchmark 45 just over an hour after Readily Availabull’s debut success.
While there is little by way of black-type in his immediate family, third dam Lucy Limelight (Hot Spark) produced European stakes winners Los Verdes (Persian Bold), Primas Agere (Hamas) and Nord’s Lucy (Nordico).
Nord’s Lucy is the dam of Group 2 winner Nordhal (Halling), an 18-time victor in Italy, and Onice Nero (Primo Dominie), joint champion two-year-old colt in Italy in 1998 and successful 12 times.
Lucy Limelight also counts the stout hurdler King Solomon (Simon Du Desert) and the speedy Group 1-performed Finsbury Square (Siyouni) among her descendants.
Bull Point is standing for $8,800 (inc GST) at Kingstar Farm this spring.