Skirt The Law by Better Than Ready wins the 2023 Magic Millions 2YO classic, her half-brother by Nicconi is Lot 17 in the 2024 Lyndhurst draft.
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ith the exception of just one race the Magic Millions Gold Coast raceday is all about speed, and if you are serious about having a runner on the fantastically rich card then Lyndhurst Stud’s Jeff Kruger reckons Better Than Ready is the stallion to get you there. And who can argue with him. In each of Better Than Ready’s six crops he has had at least one runner in the Classic and of course his daughter Skirt The Law brilliantly won the 2023 edition. Jeff explained, “Overall, Better Than Ready is a tremendous sire but in particular he is a tremendous juvenile winner-getter. Every season he is high up on the juvenile winners’ and individual winners’ tables. In the history of Australian breeding only one stallion has sired more individual two year-olds winners in his first crop, and that was Without Fear in the late 1980’s. And he backs it up every year, consistently getting twenty or so two year-old winners, so getting the Magic Millions Classic winner last year was just the icing on the cake. He has already sired three winners of Magic Millions races, Skirt The
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Law in the Classic and Alpine Edge and The Odyssey both won the QTIS Open Quality, so he’s really the go-to stallion for Magic Millions success.” And last season Better Than Ready created a little bit of history becoming the first Queensland stallion to surpass $10 million in earnings in a season. As the Lyndhurst slogan says, “if you want an early runner, look no further.”
This year seven of the 13 strong Lyndhurst draft have the brilliant sprinter as their sire, the remainder made up of first crop sires Earthlight and Time To Reign, and promising young stallions in Tassort, Brave Smash and Dubious. Despite the expected demand for the Better Than Readys he isn’t the sire of Jeff’s pick of the draft. “We have a Nicconi half-brother to Skirt The Law that will go through as Lot 17 and he will probably be the star lot in our draft. As a late October foal he won’t be the finished product when he steps in the ring, but it won’t take long for him to catch up. He’s a precocious looking type by a stallion I think is underrated even though he sired one of the world’s best in Nature
