Promising filly BETTER GET SET continued a hot run of form for Proven Thoroughbreds and trainer Steven O’Dea with a strong win at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday.
In what was our third winner for the weekend and 15th since the season renewed on August 1, BETTER GET SET collected a healthy $24,400 for saluting in the 1000m QTIS 3YO Maiden.
The daughter of top Queensland sire BETTER THAN READY was ridden a treat by apprentice Justin Huxtable, settling just behind the speed before taking a split in the straight and racing clear to score by a length.
It should be recognised that Huxtable has been riding in terrific form over the last four weeks with nine winners for a strike rate of 22 percent.
“BETTER GET SET’s performance on Sunday vindicated the high opinion Steve O’Dea has had of her since she was an early 2YO.” – Jamie Walter
Sunday’s result was made sweeter by the fact that Proven purchased BETTER GET SET’s full-brother earlier this year – the BETTER THAN READY x RIDOLFI (FASTNET ROCK) colt (pictured below).
Shares are still available in this colt with prices starting at $2,500 + GST for 2.5%. He’s due to return to work in the next couple of weeks and impressed Steve when last in the stables.
Both BETTER GET SET and her full-brother are products of Lyndhurst Stud, where BETTER THAN READY stands for a fee of $33,000 (inc GST).
There’s a good argument to say his fee should be higher than that, considering the number of 2YO winners he’s produced from his first two crops:
| YEAR 1 | CROP 1 | CROP 2 | TOTAL | |
| BETTER THAN READY | 2019 | 23 | 17 | 40 |
| DEEP FIELD | 2019 | 21 | 16 | 37 |
| I AM INVINCIBLE | 2014 | 15 | 20 | 35 |
| EXCEED AND EXCEL | 2008 | 13 | 19 | 32 |
| SPIRIT OF BOOM | 2018 | 18 | 12 | 30 |
| ALL TOO HARD | 2017 | 10 | 13 | 23 |
| SNITZEL | 2010 | 10 | 12 | 22 |
| RUBICK | 2019 | 15 | 6 | 21 |
| FASTNET ROCK | 2009 | 12 | 8 | 20 |