Rubiton
| Rubiton | |
|---|---|
| Sire | Century |
| Grandsire | Better Boy |
| Dam | Ruby |
| Damsire | Seventh Hussar |
| Sex | Stallion |
| Foaled | 1983 |
| Country | Australia |
| Colour | Brown |
| Breeder | Ray Orloff (Oamaru Stud) |
| Owner | David, Rod and Mark Baylis |
| Trainer | Pat Barns |
| Record | 16: 10-1-4 |
| Earnings | A$1,360,330 |
| Major wins | |
| W S Cox Plate (1987) Futurity Stakes (1987) Underwood Stakes (1987) Mackinnon Stakes (1987) | |
| Honours | |
| Rubiton Stakes | |
| Last updated on 10 February 2010 | |
Rubiton (18 October 1983 – 25 November 2005) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse of the mid-1980s.
He was bred by the Oamaru Stud in Victoria. Rubiton's name was a combination of "Ruby" and "ton", a colloquial term for 100 runs in cricket.
Racing career
Rubiton started off solely as a sprinter winning the 1,400-metre weight for age Futurity Stakes and coming third in the Newmarket Handicap and Oakleigh Plate to sprinters Placid Ark and Special.
In his four-year-old season, he won his first four starts, dominating at weight for age in the Manikato, Memsie, Feehan and Underwood Stakes. He was then defeated by Drought and Fair Sir in the Caulfield Stakes after overexerting himself in trackwork.
Rubiton atoned for the defeat at his next start by winning the 1987 Cox Plate in track record time of 2.02.9, beating (Our) Poetic Prince, Fair Sir and Vo Rogue. He won a week later in the Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington. Having then gone out for a spell, he never returned due to a tendon injury. He was retired to stud with earnings of A$1,360,330.
Stud career
An outstanding sire at stud, Rubiton is one of only two stallions (the other is the 1926 winner Heroic) to win and sire the winner of Australia's greatest weight-for-age race, the Group 1 MVRC Cox Plate.
Rubiton's progeny include 38 stakeswinners for 102 stakeswins. Besides Fields of Omagh, twice winner of the Cox Plate (2003 & 2006), Rubiton is the sire of:
- Rubitano (Newmarket Handicap).
- Adam (Stradbroke Handicap, George Main Stakes).
- Flavour (Victoria Racing Club Stakes).
- Patezza (Doncaster Handicap).
- Dilly Dally (T J Smith Stakes).
- Monopolize (Hong Kong International Bowl twice).[1]
He is also sire of sprinter Lucky Secret, winner of 14 of 23 race starts, including the:
- 2008 MVRC A J Moir Stakes.
- 2009 Group 2 MRC Schillaci Stakes.
- 2009 MVRC Stanley Wootton Stakes.
Lucky Secret narrowly lost the 2009 Group 1 rated MRC Oakleigh Plate, pipped at the post by Swiss Ace. An A$220,000 yearling, winner of over $950,000 in prizemoney, Lucky Secret was trained at Caulfield by Tony Vasil.
Melbourne Racing Club have long honoured Rubiton with his own race, the Group 3 Rubiton Stakes, run in February.
Sire line tree
- Rubiton[2]
- Monopolize
- Flavour
- Adam
- Fields of Omagh
- Patezza
- Bulleton[3]
- Mr Spin[4]
- Lucky Secret
Pedigree
| Sire Century (Aus) 1969 |
Better Boy (Ire) 1951 |
My Babu (Fr) | Djebel (Fr) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perfume II (GB) | |||
| Better So (GB) | Mieuxce (Fr) | ||
| Soga (GB) | |||
| Royal Suite (Aus) 1960 |
Rego (Ire) | Nasrullah (Ire) | |
| Missy Suntan (GB) | |||
| Baraganda (Aus) | Baroda (NZ) | ||
| Propaganda (Aus) | |||
| Dam Ruby (Aus) 1977 |
Seventh Hussar (Fr) 1966 |
Queen's Hussar (GB) | March Past (GB) |
| Jojo (GB) | |||
| Ann Boleyn (GB) | Tudor Minstrel (Ire) | ||
| Game of Chance (GB) | |||
| Briar's Toddy (Aus) 1971 |
Todman (Aus) | Star Kingdom (Ire) | |
| Oceana (Ire) | |||
| St. Auriga (Aus) | Landau (Ire) | ||
| Joeletta (Aus) (Family: 4L) |
Notes
- ^ ASB - Rubiton Retrieved on 2009-6-18
- ^ "Bay Middleton Sire Line". Archived from the original on 21 November 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2024.
- ^ The Byerley Turk line set to vanish from Australia
- ^ Trainer Mick O’Neill lands first winner with Mr Spin in TAB Highway Plate
References
- Rubiton - Profile of a Champion
- Rubiton Remembered
- Thoroughbred Heritage: Family 4 - Layton Barb Mare
- Bloodlines.net: Family 4 - Layton Violet Barb Mare
- Bloodlines.net: Family 4L - Golden Grove Archived 10 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
External links
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