Warrawee Needy stock on fire

The world champion Warrawee Needy 1:46.8 ($1.2 million), who stands at Yirribee Pacing Stud, Wagga (NSW) where Cattlewash heads a select sire list, is heading for his best season on record.

As at July 28, Warrawee Needy has left 42 individual winners this season including nine three-year-old winners and they have banked $590,508 in stakemoney.

Heading the list is the star three-year-old Maxo Mighty, the winner of five of his 10 starts this year – including three at Menangle and two at Albion Park – and a neck second in the $150,000 Queensland Derby.

Warrawee Flyer, another of the Warrawee Needy progeny, has notched five wins this season including four at Albion Park and improved his stake tally to $121,000.

Other metropolitan winners sired by Warrawee Needy this season have been the dual Menangle winner Withdistinction, the dual Albion Park winners Soap Opera and Shes A Warrawee, the Menangle victor Vite Monet, and the Albion Park winners Needbee and Miss Froufrou.

In all, Warrawee Needy has sired 114 winners from 159 starters in Australia, a creditable 72 percentage record. His progeny have earned $5,250,291 at an average of $33,021 per starter.

Warrawee Needy’s stock have won a host of Group races including the NSW Breeders Challenge, APG Gold Bullion, NSW Breeders Challenge Blue and the Queensland Peak of the Creek.

by Peter Wharton, for Harnesslink