Hall near Canberra-based horseman and long-time Australian Pacing Gold supporter Frank O’Sullivan holds a record that makes him the envy of most breeders and trainers.
He bred and reared four horses at his property in 2022, and all four are winners.
The quartet are the Leeton Breeders Plate and NSW Breeders Challenge Western Regional winner Im No Trouble, Ethan’s Revenge (3 wins from 6 starts), Bellamy’s Blast (2 wins) and The Great Wave.
“They all won at their first start and they all came out of the one paddock,” O’Sullivan said.
“A lot of the horses I’ve bred have won as two-year-olds and many of them won at their first start.”
Undoubtedly the best horse bred and raced by O’Sullivan was the bonny Bling It On mare Madrid, who has won 29 races to date and more than $500,000 including a clean sweep of the APG Sales Series Finals at two, three and four and the NSW Breeders Challenge 2YO series.
The siblings Apollo Greed and Pretty Inpink were among other top performers brought out by O’Sullivan. The former captured a heat and semi of the NSW Sires Stakes 2YO, the NSW Edgar Tatlow and the APG 3YO Final and the latter a semi of the NSW Sires and the Shepparton Oaks.
Pretty Inpink features in the back removes of the pedigrees of two colts that O’Sullivan has entered for the APG Sydney Sale at Warwick Farm on Sunday, March 15.
Both are products of the three-time Australian Horse of the Year and Miracle Mile winner King Of Swing.
Lot 270 is the first foal out of the unraced Sweet Lou mare Borgini, a great granddaughter of Pretty Inpink.
“He could be the best looking horse in the sale. He’s a standout,” O’Sullivan claimed.
His other entry is Lot 262, a big, raw-boned colt from a Rock N Roll Heaven granddaughter of Pretty Inpink in Babyitscold, who won 11 races including the Breeders Crown Mares Graduate at Melton and over $90,000 in stakes.
O’Sullivan is also preparing two fillies by the world champion, North America Cup winner and emerging, young sire Lather Up for Canberra businessman Stan O’Hare.
“Stan has got two broodmares with me and both their progeny are in the sales,” Frank said.
Both are very closely related.
Lot 274 is a neat, compact filly out of Brigade Queen, a winning Life Sign mare from a very successful American family. Brigade Queen has left five foals of racing age for four winners - all inside 1:58 – including the APG 2YO Final placegetters Most Triumphant ($102,000) and Tingiringi and the talented three-year-old Ethan’s Revenge, a winner in 1:54 at Penrith last Thursday.
The other filly, listed as Lot 251, is the second foal from Tingiringi, a Menangle winner at two and three.
“She’s a nice, big, strong filly just like her mother,” O’Sullivan said.
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