Rubiton
| Rubiton | |
|---|---|
| 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 & Ron Bayliss |
| Trainer | Pat Barnes |
| Record | 16: 10-1-4 |
| Earnings | A$1,360,330 |
| Major wins | |
|
Cox Plate (1987) Futurity Stakes (1987) Underwood Stakes (1987) Mackinnon Stakes (1987) |
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| Honours | |
| Rubiton Stakes | |
| Last updated on 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 a century in cricket.
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.
An outstanding sire at stud, Rubiton is one of only two stallions (the other is 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 sprinter Rubitano (Newmarket Handicap), Adam (Stradbroke Handicap), Flavour (Victoria Racing Club Stakes), Patezza (Doncaster Handicap), Dilly Dally (T J Smith Stakes), and Monopolize (Hong Kong International Bowl twice).
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