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Winning Start to Season for Value Sires

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Monday August 10

Just 10 days into a new season Larneuk Stud’s value sires Cluster and O’Lonhro are on the board with their first winners of 2020/2021.

A prolific sire of winners with a 57.7% winner to runner strike rate, O’Lonhro sired Franquin to win at Casterton on Sunday, while Frankly Harvey saluted at Warrnambool last Thursday.

Now an eight year-old, Franquin looks to have come back to racing in good heart scoring at his second run back from a spell and has won over $80,000 in prizemoney.

Frankly Harvey is another tough, sound competitor at age seven, with his Warrnambool success taking him to within a whisker of $200,000 in prizemoney.


Completely free of Danehill blood, Lonhro’s Group II winning son O’Lonhro comes from the same female family as I Am Invincible, which will no doubt spark the interest of some breeders, who like to line breed to stallions from the same family.

 

O'Lonhro

The sire of last season's Group II MVRC Sunline Stakes winner and $600,000 plus earner Mamzelle Tess, O’Lonhro stands at a fee of $4,400 this spring.

Cluster had a winning double over the weekend with lightly raced four year-old Cape Cluster improving on two recent second placings to break his maiden at Wagga on Sunday, while Warburton scored his second win at Coffs Harbour on Saturday.

A Group II winning son of Fastnet Rock, Cluster’s oldest progeny are just four year-olds and his 13 winners to date are headed by stakes-placed Gee Gees Darl.

Cluster

One of only four stallions by Fastnet Rock standing in Victoria, Cluster stands at a fee of $5,500.


 

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