Great Success (Tr 1:51.4TT), who is standing once again at Victoria this season at Niota Bloodstock, Girgarre near Shepparton had another one of his stocks Senitas Success score his second win in row when the seven-year-old scored for trainer Vicki Rasmussen and driver Shane Graham at Albion park last Friday.
Great Success fee for 2016/17 is $1,320 including GST.
The brilliant, young stallion – he was foaled in 2004 – has already proved to be a huge success on both sides of the Tasman.
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From his first crop he sired a top in fated colt in Roy Hobbs (Tr 2:00.2), who has won four of his 12 starts and was one of the star three-year-olds of his season, and others in Jeter Tr 2:02.9 (8 wins to date) , Senitas Success Tr 1:56.5 (12 wins) and the Globe Derby Park winner Buff Orpington.
While, his second crop now racing as six-year-olds, includes Edge Hill (1.55.6 and $110,161) One Two Kenny (2 wins from 4 NZ starts), Boundary Row Tr 2:06.7 (15 wins), a dual SA classic-winning two-year-old, No Bones About It Tr 2:04 (3 wins on end), Racewaycalder
His group 1 winning son Sparkling Success who took out the 2016 Vic Bred final for 4yo’s has claimed 8 wins from just 13 starts also from his 2011 crop is the promising Top of The Rock.
In Australia Great Success has sired 25 winners from 47 starters.
In New Zealand Great Success has left the likes of Al Bundy (8wins) who is owned by prominent South Australian owners and breeders the Cormack family, Trouble Rieu, now the winner of 8 races he was a heat winner and runner-up in the final of the NZ 2YO Trotting Championship, One Two Kenny (2 wins from 4 NZ starts),
All in all great Success has left 38 individual winners in the land of the land of the long white cloud.
Great Success competed with real distinction against the best trotters in commission in North America. As a two-year-old he won in 1:56.2, winning a division of the Review Stake at Springfield, while he also captured divisions of the John Simpson Memorial and Hayes Stake and finished runner-up in the Bluegrass Stake and International Stallion Stake.
The highlight of his career came as a three-year-old winning an elimination and Final of the $220,000 Matron Stake at Dover Downs in 1:55.4. He took his record of 1:51.4 at three years in a time trial at Lexington, trotting his last half in a blazing 55 seconds.
Great Success had only 32 starts, winning six times with 10 placings and running up a stake score of $400,341 – an excellent total in a brief career.
Great Success is a son of Hambletonian winner Self Possessed (Tr 1:51.6) to do stud duty in the southern hemisphere. Self Possessed hit the siring headlines when he left the mighty Cantab Hall (Tr 1:54), who in turn has sired the world record holders Father Patrick (Tr 1:50.4) and Uncle Peter (Tr 1:50.6).
Great Success, on his dam’s side has a pedigree to match that of his sire line. He is out of Victory Please, the dam also of the Stakes winning Pleasing Lady (Tr 1:56) and Azur (Tr 1:54.6), being by Mr Vic (Tr 1:54.4) from Caviar Please, by Royal Prestige (Tr 1:55.2), a former USA Trotter of the Year. He boasts a 3×3 cross to Valley Victory (sire of Muscles Yankee) and carries multiple strains of the blood of influential sires Speedy Crown and Star’s Pride. His pedigree also contains three doses of the blood of noted speed influence Speedy Somolli.
Gary Newton SA