O’Reilly and Pins Leading the Australasian Way

25 January 2012

O'Reilly

According to Breednet.com.au this morning, O’Reilly and Pins lead the Australasian way by Recent Wins heading into the Karaka Yearling Sales next Monday.

Proudly O’Reilly is the number one Australasian sire with 8 and 30 wins registered respectively over the last 7 and 30 days. As an extra feather in his cap, the superb sire of 11 individual Group 1 winners is also the current leader of NZ’s General Sires’ Premiership.

The full details of the breednet tables are as follows:

TOP SIRES BY WINS LAST 7 DAYS

O’Reilly 8

Elvstroem 6

Zabeel 6

Bianconi 5

Magic Albert 5

TOP SIRES BY WINS LAST 30 DAYS

O’Reilly 30

Exceed And Excel 26

Pins 22

Encosta De Lago 20

Fastnet Rock

With respect to NZ’s Gerneral Sires’ Premiership, Arion Pedigrees reports:

Rank Stallion Rnrs Wnrs Earnings

1 O’Reilly (NZ) 1993 111 36 $721,593

2 Thorn Park (AUS) 1999 61 17 $709,675

3 Pins (AUS) 1996 94 28 $610,947

4 Pentire (GB) 1992 51 25 $585,760

5 Keeper (AUS) 1997 82 19 $555,532

6 Fastnet Rock (AUS) 2001 14 5 $547,800

7 Captain Rio (GB) 1999 80 29 $500,477

8 Volksraad (GB) 1988 78 18 $477,210

9 Bachelor Duke (USA) 2001 58 17 $439,877

10 Stravinsky (USA) 1996 40 16 $425,147

11 Johar (USA) 1999 31 12 $388,074

12 No Excuse Needed (GB) 1998 68 16 $364,322

13 Savabeel (AUS) 2001 58 17 $358,727

14 Zabeel (NZ) 1986 40 14 $339,775

15 Postponed (USA) 1997 74 20 $337,090

16 Howbaddouwantit (USA) 1995 49 17 $330,504

17 Ishiguru (USA) 1998 69 20 $317,990

18 Shinko King (IRE) 1991 40 19 $316,803

19 Towkay (AUS) 1994 44 14 $272,765

20 Elusive City (USA) 2000 42 18 $266,230

Source: Arion Pedigrees

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