New Stakes-Winner for Spinning World

12th August 2007

Evergreen sire Spinning World produced his 34^th stakes-winner worldwide in New Zealand at the weekend when seven year-old gelding Spin Around (7g Spinning World - Be Yourself, by Noalcoholic) won the Listed Winter Classic Stakes over 2000 metres at Riccarton.

Trained by Steven Cooper, Spin Around is an interesting horse having spent most of his racing career in Hong Kong where he won four races under the name of Better Boy before returning to New Zealand in 2006.

A $50,000 purchase for Brookby Stables from the 2002 Magic Millions Yearling Sale in Adelaide, Spin Around was secured from the draft of Erinvale Thoroughbreds and has won seven races in all and prizemoney in excess of half a million dollars.

Bred in Australia by Phillip Gunter, Spin Around is a half-brother to five other winners including Group Three placed Bird Dancer being from the Noalcoholic mare Be Yourself .

A minor winner in America, Be Yourself comes from an outstanding European family being a half-sister to Group winners Molesnes and Celtic Heir as well as stakes-placed Celtic Assembly, the dam of champion sprinting mare Cherokee Rose.

In Australia, the family has also made an impression with last season’s Group Two winning three-year old Just Mambo slotting into the pedigree.

Be Yourself produced a filly by Johannesburg last year and is due to foal to him again this spring.