Rubiton

Rubiton
Sire Century
Grandsire Better Boy
Dam Ruby
Damsire Seventh Hussar
Sex Stallion
Foaled 1983
Country Australia
Colour Brown
Breeder Ray Orloff (Oamaru Stud)
Owner David & Ron Bayliss
Trainer Pat Barnes
Record 16: 10-1-4
Earnings A$1,360,330
Major wins
Cox Plate (1987)
Futurity Stakes (1987)
Underwood Stakes (1987)
Mackinnon Stakes (1987)
Honours
Rubiton Stakes
Last updated on 10 February 2010

Rubiton (18 October 1983 – 25 November 2005) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse of the mid-1980s.

He was bred by the Oamaru Stud in Victoria. Rubiton's name was a combination of "Ruby" and "ton", a colloquial term for a century in cricket.

Racing career

Rubiton started off solely as a sprinter winning the 1,400 metre weight for age Futurity Stakes and coming third in the Newmarket Handicap and Oakleigh Plate to sprinters Placid Ark and Special.

In his four-year-old season, he won his first four starts, dominating at weight for age in the Manikato, Memsie, Feehan and Underwood Stakes. He was then defeated by Drought and Fair Sir in the Caulfield Stakes after overexerting himself in trackwork.

Rubiton atoned for the defeat at his next start by winning the 1987 Cox Plate in track record time of 2.02.9, beating (Our) Poetic Prince, Fair Sir and Vo Rogue. He won a week later in the Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington. Having then gone out for a spell, he never returned due to a tendon injury. He was retired to stud with earnings of A$1,360,330.

Stud career

An outstanding sire at stud, Rubiton is one of only two stallions (the other is Heroic) to win and sire the winner of Australia's greatest weight-for-age race, the Group 1 MVRC Cox Plate.

Rubiton's progeny include 38 stakeswinners for 102 stakeswins. Besides Fields of Omagh, twice winner of the Cox Plate (2003 & 2006), Rubiton is the sire of sprinter Rubitano (Newmarket Handicap), Adam (Stradbroke Handicap), Flavour (Victoria Racing Club Stakes), Patezza (Doncaster Handicap), Dilly Dally (T J Smith Stakes), and Monopolize (Hong Kong International Bowl twice).[1]

He is also sire of sprinter Lucky Secret, winner of 14 of 23 race starts, including, respectively, the Group 2 MRC Schillaci Stakes, MVRC A.J. Moir Stakes and MVRC Stanley Wootton Stakes. Lucky Secret narrowly lost the Group 1 rated MRC Oakleigh Plate, pipped at the post by Swiss Ace. A $220,000 yearling, winner of over $950,000 in prizemoney, Lucky Secret is trained at Caulfield by Tony Vasil.

Melbourne Racing Club have long honoured Rubiton with his own race, the Group 3 Rubiton Stakes, run in February.

Pedigree

Pedigree of Rubiton
Sire
Century (Aus)
1969		 Better Boy (Ire)
1951		 My Babu (Fr) Djebel (Fr)
Perfume II (GB)
Better So (GB) Mieuxce (Fr)
Soga (GB)
Royal Suite (Aus)
1960		 Rego (Ire) Nasrullah (Ire)
Missy Suntan (GB)
Baraganda (Aus) Baroda (NZ)
Propaganda (Aus)
Dam
Ruby (Aus)
1977		 Seventh Hussar (Fr)
1966		 Queen's Hussar (GB) March Past (GB)
Jojo (GB)
Ann Boleyn (GB) Tudor Minstrel (Ire)
Game of Chance (GB)
Briar's Toddy (Aus)
1971		 Todman (Aus) Star Kingdom (Ire)
Oceana (Ire)
St. Auriga (Aus) Landau (Ire)
Joeletta (Aus) (Family: 4L)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ ASB - Rubiton Retrieved on 2009-6-18

References

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