Always B Mikiʻs red hot season continues

Always B Mikiʻs stellar season reached new heights over the weekend, with his offspring taking out two of the Group 1 Vicbred Super Series Finals at Melton on Saturday night.

In the $150,000 3YO Colts and Geldings Final, Miki To Success was the fastest of the eveningʻs winners with a 1:52.9 score.

Racing without cover until Kingman came around with 1300m to run, Miki To Success was caught a little flat footed in the back straight through a 26.8 third quarter from the pace maker Some American, but once balanced up charged home to win impressively by 3.2m.

Kingman, another by Always B Miki, finished third.

A winner at two, Miki To Success has really come into his own this season, winning six of his 10 starts as a 3-year-old and placing in the remaining four.

His lifetime earnings now stand at $137,500.

He is out of the six-win Elsu mare Jo Louleonie, a half sister to the multiple Group 1 winner and NZ Cup runner-up Majestic Cruiser.

In the 2YO Colts and Geldings Final, the unbeaten Always Hot led home an Always B Miki quinella.

Looping the field to take the lead with just a over a lap to run, Always Hot held off the fast finishing Go Miki to score by a neck in a mile rate of 1:55.8.

The exciting colt has now won all four race-day starts and $96,400 in stakes money.

Bred by Peter Gleeson, Always Hot is out of the stakes winning Mach Three mare Our Celebrity.

Interestingly the second place-getter, Go Miki, is out of a full sister to Always Hotʻs dam, making him effectively a blood brother to the winner.

Always B Miki was the only pacing stallion on Vicbred Finals night to sire multiple winners.

He has now left 11 Group 1 winners down-under and incredibly six of those have come this season – Aardie B Miki, Aardieʻs Express, Always Hot, Cold Chisel, Miki To Success and Rubira.

Itʻs been a great weekend for Always B Miki in North America too, with his daughters Direction and Miki And Minnie taking out the $400,000 Kentucky Championship Series Finals for 3YO and 2YO Fillies respectively at The Red Mile on Sunday afternoon (US time); Direction in 1:50 flat and Miki And Minnie in an impressive 1:49.8 – the fastest time recorded by a 2-year old filly in the US this year.