QTIS now free for QLD sires

In a massive coup for Queensland breeders and owners, QTIS is now free. And the bonuses are bigger than ever with the addition of QTISx on top of the grassroots QTIS scheme. If your foal is by a Queensland based sire, there is no nomination fee for QTIS and QTISx, and even better, there isn’t even any paperwork. Your foal, born 2022 onwards, is automatically nominated for QTIS and QTISx. What’s better than free? Free with no paperwork!

The Queensland Thoroughbred Incentive Scheme offers QTIS bonus prizemoney boosts for two, three and four year-olds across a range of races in Queensland with over $13million on offer. The reward for utilising a Queensland base stallion begins with QTIS being the only bonus scheme in Australia to offer free nomination fees for the scheme and ends in the winner’s circle.

As a scheme for breeders, it is great to see QTIS and QTISx focusing so heavily of fillies, with a higher bonus for fillies on all the QTIS races. A wonderful recent example is Skirt The Law (Better Than Ready-Outlaw Kate, by Exceed and Excel) who was bred by Jeff Kruger at the historical Lyndhurst Stud in Warwick, Queensland. Lyndhurst Stud sold Skirt the Law at the 2022 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale to bloodstock agent John Foote and Queensland trainer Tony Gollan for $170,000. They put together a ladies only syndicate of twenty women to target to lucrative Magic Millions Racing Women bonuses. Skirt the Law won her first start, picking up a $36,750 QTIS bonus to boost the prizemoney, then won her second start with another $20,000 QTIS bonus, before she reached for the stars and took on the best two year-olds in Australia in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic. She won, collecting a QTISx bonus as well as the $333,000 Racing Women bonus, and the $1.5million prizemoney for winning the race. And that’s without mentioning the valuable black type.

Black type is what the QTISx bonuses are all about. They apply to all Queensland black type as well as some selected feature races in the state with owners having the option of a cash bonus or doubling the amount to use as a sales voucher. QTIS eligible winners of a Queensland Gr1 race will earn a $50,000 bonus for the owners, or have the option of choosing a $100,000 QTISx sales voucher to be used on any QTIS eligible yearling at any sale, including the headline sales of the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale and the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.

For breeders with mares due to foal this spring, who aren’t in foal to a Queensland stallion, there is the Breed Back option. Send your mare to a Queensland based stallion, and this

The leading two year-old fillies QTIS earners for 2022/23 (as at 31 May 2023) are:

The leading three year-old fillies QTIS earners for 2022/23 (as at 31 May 2023) are:

Better Than Ready-Pointe Dancer, by Noverre

$192,225 Chinny Boom (3f) Spirit of Boom-Imanoremiss, by Made of Gold

Spirit Queen (3f) Spirit of Boom-Rhiannons Girl, by General Nediym season’s foal is eligible for QTIS as a Breed Back option. You will have to register this nonQueensland based sired foal for the scheme and pay a nomination fee, but the next foal, sired by a Queensland stallion, will be free and automatically signed into QTIS for you.

With Gr1 winning or producing stallions such as Exosphere, Falvelon, Heroic Valour, Invado, Jonker, Jungle Cat, Neorealism, Power, Prince Fawaz, Rothesay, Sidestep, Spirit of Boom, Stronger, The Mission, Top Echelon, Under the Louvre, Wanted, and Worthy Cause all standing in Queensland, as well as young emerging talents like Dracarys, Encryption, Glenfiddich, Lean Mean Machine, Performer, Sooboog, Sun City, Swear, The Odyssey, and Winning Rupert, there are many options for breeders looking to benefit from the QTIS scheme.

QTIS has been around for years with the benefits for owners being well proven. In a massive coup for breeders and owners, QTIS is now free for the progeny of Queensland stallions.