It's official - a stake in Raining Dollars has been secured, so we now have a racing interest in Australia, as well as Japan and England. This has sort of been on the cards for some time, but the right horse has come along at the right time (need something new to balance the intermittent waves of extreme boredom and stress caused by work), and the JLH Racing equip is a nice outfit to take the plunge with.
Raining Dollars is a gelding blessed with some interesting blood, being sired by Changeintheweather - an American horse with five wins behind him (including a G1 victory), as well as four seconds and two thirds from 15 races. He was fathered by Gone West from the highly-successful Mr Prospector line, mixed with a measure of Secretariat blood just for good measure. His damsire was perhaps even more impressive, though, as it was Pleasant Colony - a horse that was winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, and third in the Belmont Stakes. Doubtless, his speed was inherited from the great Italian stallion, Ribot, who was his grandfather.
The two-year old's dam was Mindmaster by Mind Games, the latter being an English champion sprinter. Mindmaster was a winner herself before becoming a broodmare, with truly international blood on her dam side, sourced from Australia, France, New Zealand, America and Britain, as well as Canada a bit further back. Noalcoholic, as the damsire, was remarkably successful on the track, so the bloodlines point to a horse that may well be capable of living up to its wonderful name...
PS. Raining Dollars was born in September, which seems odd until you think about the southern hemisphere location. Interesting!
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