50th Winner for Stratum

 In 2012

November 4 – On a busy weekend of racing our leading young sire Stratum passed a small milestone in posting his 50th Australian winner of the season.

The Mick Price trained four year-old gelding Meritorious brought up winner number 50 when he saluted at Traralgon on Saturday taking his overall record to three wins from 12 starts with prizemoney in excess of $40,000.

Stratum has been running hot this year and is second only to Lonhro on the leading sires by Australian winners list, the latter tallying up 55 winners from 168 runners, while Stratum’s 50 have come from just 129 runners.

Leading Sires by Australian Winners 2012/2013 (Arion)

Stallion

Rnrs

Wnrs

SW(SWins)

Earnings

Lonhro

168

55

3(5)

$2,845,048

Stratum

129

50

2(3)

$1,708,235

Bel Esprit

165

49

1(1)

$1,143,572

Exceed and Excel

158

48

2(2)

$1,834,093

More Than Ready (USA)

156

47

3(4)

$1,645,020

Encosta de Lago

167

46

1(1)

$1,488,205

Redoute’s Choice

139

45

4(4)

$2,655,005

Fastnet Rock

159

43

9(10)

$3,817,335

Commands

140

43

7(8)

$3,412,770

Testa Rossa

136

38

1(1)

$1,289,926