SEARS STABLE WARMING UP BEHIND THE SCENES

By Graham Potter | Tuesday, August 13, 2024

The Tony and Maddysen Sears trained Yellow Brick will leave his Toowoomba base and head to Sydney next week for his assignment in the Group 3 Show County Quality over 1200m at Randwick on Winx Stakes Day on August 24.

The well performed Yellow Brick boasts seven wins and five second places from only fifteen starts with $1 538 850 banked in prize-money.

This will be Yellow Brick’s second sortie south. Last year’s Sydney campaign did not go well in the end, for a couple of reasons, and the stable has tweaked the strategy this time.

“We’re going down and then we are going to come back on the Sunday,” said Maddy Sears. “We are going to go backwards and forwards and not stay down there this time.

“All being well he will go from the Show County into the Bill Richie, a Group 3 over 1400m ... and then hopefully into the Epsom.” (The $1.5 million Epsom is over 1600m at Group 1 level).

“Tim Clark has been booked to ride him in the Show County.”

And the Sears stable has plenty more in the pipeline.
Their Ipswich Cup winner Red Wave, who galloped with Yellow Brick in-between races at Toowoomba on Saturday night, is also lining up a feature race target.

“He had a really nice trial yesterday, here in Toowoomba,” said Sears. “He will have two starts before the Toowoomba Cup.”

Then there is Avone, who thrashed her rivals at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday.

“Avone really stamped the opinion that we have of her on Saturday,” said Sears. “She’ll start again in two weeks.”

And the Lightning Handicap winner Steady Ready?

“Steady Ready had a break after the Carnival. He comes back into work this week,” said Sears.

“So, it might seem like it is bit quiet for us at the moment, but it is not quiet behind the scenes.

“We’ve got a lot of babies as well. We’ve got twenty-seven two-year-olds for this season, so we’ve got a lot of young horses going through at the moment.”

“I thought we had a lot of two-year-olds last year when we had sixteen, so we’ve really got a large number of two-year-olds this year, which I am really excited about.”

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