Reward For Effort
- Won the Group 1 Blue Diamond as a 2YO
- Undefeated Weight-For-Age 3YO, Group Winner as a 4YO
- Champion Victorian 1st & 2nd Season Sire
- Already Sired 7 Stakes Winners headed by Gold Symphony
- Victoria’s most popular sire in 2017
Competed only in Stakes races during his 10 race career, which started in brilliant fashion with a win at 2 on debut in the MRC Blue Diamond Preview L (1000m) Followed up with a decisive win in the MRC Blue Diamond S Gr 1 (1200m), defeating subsequent Gr 1 winners Starspangledbanner and Rostova Undefeated weight-for-age winner at 3 and Group winner at 4 3 / 4 brother-in-blood to Overreach, also a GR 1 winner at 2 (2012-2013) of the ATC Golden Slipper S (1200m) By world Champion 2YO sire Exceed and Excel from a Stakes winning mare by Champion Sire and Champion Broodmare Sire Rory’s Jester [a champion 2YO and a winner of the STC Golden Slipper S Gr 1 – also the sire of a Golden Slipper winner] Reward For Effort covered 202 quality mares in 2017. Already produced 7 Stakes Winners with Ability [1st Bletchingly S., Gr.3] All Victorian Sprint, L], Gold Symphony[1st MRC Vain S., Gr.3, MRC HDF McNeil S., Gr.3], Take Pride [1st MVRC Champagne S., Gr.3], Dalradian [1st Inglis Banner RL], Brugal Reward [1st Typhoon Tracy S., Gr3], Desert Lashes [1st Redelva S., L]
Race Record:
10 Starts: 4 wins, 1 second, 1 third
Prizemoney: $937,200
1st: 2009 MRC Blue Diamond Stakes Group 1 1200m
1st: 2010 STC Concorde Stakes Group 3 1100m
1st: 2009 MRC Blue Diamond Preview Listed 1000m
1st: 2010 MRC Sir John Monash Stakes Listed 1100m
Stud Career:
Commenced stud duties in 2011. His oldest progeny are 6YO. Sire of 324 runners, 193 individual winners, of 465 wins and total prize money $16,000,000+.
His winners include Gold Symphony [6 wins and $510,500, 1st MRC Vain S., Gr.3, MRC HDF McNeil S., Gr.3, National Sprint, L.] Ability [6 wins and $350,240, 1st MRC Bletchingly S., Gr.3] Take Pride [3 wins and $241,550, 1st MVRC Champagne S., Gr.3], Dalradian [2 wins and $194,800 , 1st Inglis Banner RL] Brugal Reward [3 wins and $190,090, 1st Typhoon Tracy S., Gr.3] Desert Lashes [8 wins and $236,600, 1st Redelva S., L] Blondie [3 wins and $235,000, 1st MVRC Crockett S., L], Sheriff John Stone [3rd Moomba Plate, L], Tuff Bickie [3rd Hobart Cup, Gr.3], Fancy Rumble [2nd Redelva S.,L] Jumbo Luck, Petites Reward, Hell Of An Effort, Kilowatt, Ability, Montana Star, Drill Master, Jevilla, Destiny’s Reward, Effortless Miss, Pakaya Prince, Tender Mist, Marie Claire, Take A Sip, Valentines Reward, Silent Sniper, Zarakhani, Beyond Purple, Tuff Bickie, No Pain No Gain, Uncanny Effort, Don’t Go Quietly, Murphy’s Reward, Effortless, Reward The Dream, Doin’ The Deed, Effortless Power, Reward For Fashion, Desert Lashes, Cash Leakage, Super Jan, Life’s Reward, Rewarding Effort, I’m Telling Ya, Greensborough, Effortless Reward, Siren’s Reward, Sheriff John Stone, Big Effort, First Reward, Iamthekey, Airlie Reward, Reward With Return, etc.
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REWARD FOR EFFORT dominates the 2009 MRC Blue Diamond Stakes:
2017 Service Fee: $16,500
Including GST and transferable Free Return (Conditions apply)