Rubiton (18 October 1983 – 25 November 2005) was a champion Australian
Thoroughbred
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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 100 runs 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
The Newmarket Handicap is a Victoria Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race over a distance of 1200 metres, at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia on Super Saturday in March during the VRC Autumn Racing Carnival. Prize ...
and
Oakleigh Plate
The Oakleigh Plate is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race, run over a distance of 1100 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late February. Total prize money is A$750,000.
History
The Oakleigh ...
to sprinters
Placid Ark
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and Special.
In his four-year-old season, he won his first four starts, dominating at weight for age in the
Manikato
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,
Memsie
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Underwood Stakes
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. He was then defeated by Drought and Fair Sir in the
Caulfield Stakes
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after overexerting himself in trackwork.
Rubiton atoned for the defeat at his next start by winning the 1987
Cox Plate
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. He won a week later in the
Mackinnon Stakes
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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 the 1926 winner
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) to win and sire the winner of Australia's greatest weight-for-age race, the Group 1 MVRC
Cox Plate
The W. S. Cox Plate is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over under Weight for age conditions, over a distance of 2040 metres (approximately 1m 2f), that is held by the Moonee Valley Racing Club at Moo ...
.
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:
* Rubitano (
Newmarket Handicap
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).
* Adam (
Stradbroke Handicap
The Stradbroke Handicap is a Brisbane Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race, run over a distance of 1,400 metres at Eagle Farm Racecourse, Brisbane in June during the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival. It is one of the highligh ...
,
George Main Stakes
The George Main Stakes, is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run under Weight for Age conditions, over a distance of 1600 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in September. Total prize money for the race is A$1, ...
).
* Flavour (Victoria Racing Club Stakes).
* Patezza (
Doncaster Handicap
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).
* Dilly Dally (
T J Smith Stakes
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).
* Monopolize ( Hong Kong International Bowl twice).ASB - Rubiton Retrieved on 2009-6-18
He is also sire of sprinter Lucky Secret, winner of 14 of 23 race starts, including the:
* 2008 MVRC
A J Moir Stakes
The A J Moir Stakes is a Moonee Valley Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over under Weight for age conditions, over a distance of 1000 metres, held at Moonee Valley Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in ...
.
* 2009 Group 2 MRC
Schillaci Stakes
The Schillaci Stakes is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race held under weight for age conditions, for horses aged three years old and older, over a distance of 1,100 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in Oct ...
.
* 2009 MVRC Stanley Wootton Stakes.
Lucky Secret narrowly lost the 2009 Group 1 rated MRC
Oakleigh Plate
The Oakleigh Plate is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race, run over a distance of 1100 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late February. Total prize money is A$750,000.
History
The Oakleigh ...
, pipped at the post by Swiss Ace. An A$220,000 yearling, winner of over $950,000 in prizemoney, Lucky Secret was trained at Caulfield by Tony Vasil.
Melbourne Racing Club have long honoured Rubiton with his own race, the Group 3
Rubiton Stakes
The Rubiton Stakes is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 2 Thoroughbred horse race held under set weights with penalties conditions, for horses aged three years old and upwards, over a distance of 1100 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australi ...
, run in February.
Pedigree
See also
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List of millionaire racehorses in Australia
Top prize money earners – Australian and New Zealand horses
* denotes still racing
The criteria for inclusion in the above list are as follows. The purpose of these criteria is to include only horses that should be recognised as being Austr ...