The 2025 APG Sydney Yearling Sale has some yearlings with amazing bloodlines offered by individual vendors on February 16. Here, we take a lot at some more of the potential sale toppers in part 3 of our Sydney Standouts.
Lot 251 (Vendor – Geoff Corrigan)
This filly is by $2.6 million earner Bettors Wish and is the first foal of young Captaintreacherous mare Slick Sophie (1.53.8, $62K).
Slick Sophie showed outstanding promise, winning her first three 2YO starts at Penrith.
She took a time of 1.57.8 in her juvenile year. In all, she won nine races.
Her dam, Sophies Ideal (1.53.5, $150K), was also an outstanding race mare, winning 16 times, including the Vic Tailamade Lombo and the Vic Harness Breeders Mares Championship. She has produced four winners at stud.
This is also the family of tough race mares Twice The Pleasure (1.55.4, $179K) and Revais (1.57.8, $116K), who won 39 races in the US between them.
This filly has a double cross of US hall of fame broodmare Three Diamonds.
Bettors Wish is out of Lifetime Star, who is a three-quarter sister-in-blood to Slick Sophie’s grand sire American Ideal.
Both trace directly back to Three Diamonds, who one $735,000 in the early 1980s and created one of the greatest US racing dynasties, including Eternal Camnation ($3.7M), 2024 champion mare Twin B Joe Fresh ($2.3M), Life Sign ($1.9M), Caviart Ally ($1.9M), Luck Be Withyou ($1.4M) and Seven Colors ($1M).
Lot 252 (Vendor – Robert Ross)
This youngster is one of only two Art Major colts in the Sydney sale.
He is the first foal of Somebeachsomewhere mare Soho Osaka, a half sister to Soho Historia (1.54.3, $310K) who won nine races as a 3YO including the Qld Oaks.
Their dam, Soho Tokyo (1.54.2, $176K), was an outstanding filly. As a 2YO, she was runner-up in the Aust Pacing Gold final, WA Diamond Stakes and the Edgar Tatlow.
She is by Bettors Delight and the results of combining his bloodlines with Art Major are well documented and have resulted in the likes of $3.4 million earner Leap To Fame and ID winner Don Hugo.
Third dam Pelicanrama won 55 races – 18 as a 2YO - and $730,000. She left eight winners, including Soho Leviathon (1.52.4, $327K) and Soho Highroller (1.51.4, $187K).
Lot 255 (Vendor – Helen Head)
This filly is bred to be star. She is by superstar sire Captaintreacherous from dual Vicbred Super Series winner Tell Me Tales (1.49.3, $360K).
She is the only yearling in the Sydney sale offered by respected breeder Helen Head.
Head has been breeding pacers for more than 40 years. Some diamonds to come out of her program include grand circuit campaigner Safari (1.55.7, $535K), star 2YO and now promising sire The Storm Inside (1.50.7, $311K), Firestorm Red (1.52, $300K), Tasmanian Derby winner Garnet River (1.50, $555K) and this filly’s dam Tell Me Tales.
This filly’s third dam, Smooth Performer (1.58.9, $191K) was 1991 NZ 3YO filly of the year and produced Australian Derby winner Franco Sequel (1.51, $353K).
Captaintreacherous sons had a big influence on Australian harness racing in 2024. Catch A Wave took his earnings past $2 million with wins in The Nullarbor and Fremantle Cup in WA.
Captains Knock ($540K) won two heats in the NSW Interdominion series in December and finished an unlucky seventh in the final. He was also a finalist in the $2 million The Eureka in September.
And Frankie Ferocious was on fire early in the season, winning five straight including The $250,000 Chariots Of Fire. He finished fourth in the $1 million Miracle Mile.
Lot 259 (Vendor – Roger Strong & Clients)
This colt is by $5 million earner McWicked from Somebeachsomwhere mare Lettucesomwhere (1.56.8, $43K), who has already produced top 2YO Nathan Street (P2,1.50.5, $160K).
Nathan Street won five races in his first season, including the NSW Breeders Challenge final and a semi-final of the Australasian Breeders Crown.
This colt’s grandam, New York Fashion (1.56.1, $173K) won the 3YO fillies Breeders Challenge final and the Bathurst Gold Bracelet.
She left five winners and Fashion Heaven, the dam of quality gelding Three In Heaven (1.50.8, $217K).
This is the family of 2019 Australian 2YO filly of the year Maajida (1.50.3, $684K) who is also by Somebeachsomewhere.
McWicked had a good start to his Australian siring career, producing 16 2YO winners from his first crop in 2024.
One of his top earners in the US, Wikipedia (1.50.6, $151K) is out of a Somebeachsomewhere mare.
For full details of these or any other yearlings in the 2025 Sydney Yearling Sale please visit APG’s Online Sales Catalogueor Register as a Buyer today!
