NZ Group Two Winner for Spinning World

24th November 2007

Evergreen performer Spin Around (7g Spinning World – Be Yourself, by Noalcoholic) scored the biggest win of his career at Ellerslie on Saturday when taking out the Group Two Counties Cup over 2100 metres.

Spin Around got up by a neck in a driving finish to take his overall record to eight wins and $681,804 from 37 starts.

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. Bred in Australia by Phillip Gunter, Spin Around is a half-brother to five other winners including Group One 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 a colt to the same sire this spring.