The second highest priced yearling ever sold in Victoria – and the third most expensive yearling sold in Australia – topped the 2024 Australian Pacing Gold sale at Oaklands Junction on Sunday. A colt, by Bettor’s Delight from the Art Major mare Left For Dead and thus a three-quarter brother to the Inter Dominion champion
Breeding authority Peter Wharton presents all the harness racing news on breeding from Australia, New Zealand and North America every week brought to you by Garrard’s Horse & Hound. Five wins on end Niki Nah Nah, a daughter of the American sire Captaintreacherous, has been one of the stars of the holiday racing in Victoria. She won five
Up-and-coming youngsters
Three promising young pacers to win at Boxing Day meetings on the eastern seaboard were Pelosi, Letterkenny Boy and Our Road To Mecca, who all belong to the same family.
Pelosi, who won at Albion Park and has now won 12 of her 24 starts, is a three-year-old filly by
American Ideal from the Life Sign mare For Dear Life 1:55.8 ($322,331), a thrice Group 1 winner.
Pelosi Dan Costello photo
Letterkenny Boy, also a winner at Albion Park, is a four-year-old by Art Major from Postmark (2:00.3), dam of the Victoria Derby heat winner Major Post 1:52.6 ($177,026) and Missing Letters 1:53.7 ($123,410). Postmark was a Fake Left mare from the Monarch Hanover mare Irish Mail, the dam of the top flight filly Express Post (1:57.6) and the grand-dam of Our Road To Mecca, who scored at Ballarat on the same night as Pelosi and Letterkenny Boy won.