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Rubiton

{{Short description|Australian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}

{{Infobox racehorse

|horsename= Rubiton

|image=

|caption=

|sire= Century

|grandsire = Better Boy

|dam= Ruby

|damsire= Seventh Hussar

|sex= Stallion

|foaled= 1983

|country= Australia

|colour= Brown

|breeder= Ray Orloff (Oamaru Stud)

|owner= David, Rod and Mark Baylis

|trainer= Pat Barns

|record= 16: 10-1-4

|earnings= A$1,360,330

|race =W S Cox Plate (1987)
Futurity Stakes (1987)
Underwood Stakes (1987)
Mackinnon Stakes (1987)

|awards=

|honours = Rubiton Stakes

|updated= 10 February 2010

}}

Rubiton (18 October 1983 – 25 November 2005) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred 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 and Oakleigh Plate to sprinters Placid Ark and Special.

In his four-year-old season, he won his first four starts, dominating at weight for age in the Manikato, Memsie, Feehan and Underwood Stakes. He was then defeated by Drought and Fair Sir in the Caulfield Stakes after overexerting himself in trackwork.

Rubiton atoned for the defeat at his next start by winning the 1987 Cox Plate in track record time of 2.02.9, beating (Our) Poetic Prince, Fair Sir and Vo Rogue. He won a week later in the Mackinnon Stakes 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 Heroic) to win and sire the winner of Australia's greatest weight-for-age race, the Group 1 MVRC Cox Plate.

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:

He is also sire of sprinter Lucky Secret, winner of 14 of 23 race starts, including the:

Lucky Secret narrowly lost the 2009 Group 1 rated MRC Oakleigh Plate, 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, run in February.

Sire line tree

{{tree list}}

  • Rubiton[http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Sirelines/BayMiddleton.htm Bay Middleton Sire Line]
  • Monopolize
  • Flavour
  • Adam
  • Fields of Omagh
  • Patezza
  • Bulleton[https://www.ttrausnz.com.au/edition/2021-07-02/the-byerley-turk-line-set-to-vanish-from-australia The Byerley Turk line set to vanish from Australia]
  • Mr Spin[https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/superracing/nsw-racing/trainer-mick-oneill-lands-first-winner-with-mr-spin-in-tab-highway-plate/news-story/877975cfe9dcea3defe0aaf820f4857a Trainer Mick O’Neill lands first winner with Mr Spin in TAB Highway Plate]
  • Lucky Secret

{{tree list/end}}

Pedigree

{{Pedigree

|name = Rubiton

|f = Century (Aus)
1969

|m = Ruby (Aus)
1977

|ff = Better Boy (Ire)
1951

|fm = Royal Suite (Aus)
1960

|mf = Seventh Hussar (Fr)
1966

|mm = Briar's Toddy (Aus)
1971

|fff = My Babu (Fr)

|ffm = Better So (GB)

|fmf = Rego (Ire)

|fmm = Baraganda (Aus)

|mff = Queen's Hussar (GB)

|mfm = Ann Boleyn (GB)

|mmf = Todman (Aus)

|mmm = St. Auriga (Aus)

|ffff = Djebel (Fr)

|fffm = Perfume II (GB)

|ffmf = Mieuxce (Fr)

|ffmm = Soga (GB)

|fmff = Nasrullah (Ire)

|fmfm = Missy Suntan (GB)

|fmmf = Baroda (NZ)

|fmmm = Propaganda (Aus)

|mfff = March Past (GB)

|mffm = Jojo (GB)

|mfmf = Tudor Minstrel (Ire)

|mfmm = Game of Chance (GB)

|mmff = Star Kingdom (Ire)

|mmfm = Oceana (Ire)

|mmmf = Landau (Ire)

|mmmm = Joeletta (Aus) (Family: 4L)

|}}

See also

Notes

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References

  • [http://www.barnesphotography.net.au/rubiton/index.htm Rubiton - Profile of a Champion]
  • [http://www.stallions.com.au/newsV2/viewBr.asp?ID=5191&CID=1 Rubiton Remembered]
  • [http://www.tbheritage.com/HistoricDams/EngFoundationMares/Family4/Family4.html Thoroughbred Heritage: Family 4 - Layton Barb Mare]
  • [http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Families/Family4.htm Bloodlines.net: Family 4 - Layton Violet Barb Mare]
  • [http://www.bloodlines.net/TB/Families/Family4l.htm Bloodlines.net: Family 4L - Golden Grove]

External links

  • [http://www.pedigreequery.com/rubiton Rubiton's pedigree and partial racing stats]

Category:1983 racehorse births

Category:2005 racehorse deaths

Category:Racehorses bred in Australia

Category:Racehorses trained in Australia

Category:Cox Plate winners

Category:Thoroughbred family 4-l

Category:Byerley Turk sire line