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World Best Rating For All Too Hard

17th Jan 2013

Racing And Sports - Vinery Release - Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Future Vinery Stud resident stallion All Too Hard has been named equal Champion Three Year Old Miler on turf in the wake of his Caulfield Guineas victory and his second placing in the Cox Plate.

All Too Hard shared the prestigious honour in the World Thoroughbred Rankings with 2000 Guineas winner Camelot and South African superstar Variety Club.

Camelot was champion European juvenile in 2011 before winning the first two legs of the 'Triple Crown', namely the G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and the G1 Investec Derby at Epsom before narrowly failing to win the third leg, the G1 St Leger (G1) at Doncaster.

Triple Group One winner Variety Club won the G1 KRA Guineas at Greyville in May in a stellar year that reaped six wins and two second placings from eight runs.

The latest release of the WTR was a triumph for All Too Hard's dam Helsinge whose unparalleled daughter Black Caviar was named Champion Sprinter for the third time.

All Too Hard has always been an imposing horse. The colt was the top priced lot at the 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale selling for $1.025m to the bid of Hawkes Racing.

All Too Hard kicked off his career with an easy win in the Listed VRC Talindert Stakes (1100m) before his breathtaking 4 lengths triumph in the G2 VRC Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) at Flemington.

His only other runs as a two-year-old included a win in the G2 Pago Pago Stakes before his second placing in the G1 ATC Sires' Produce (1400m) at Randwick.

All Too Hard has returned to Rosehill to be readied for his autumn campaign which will see him race in the green and white v silks of Vinery Stud.