Pinwheel breaks million dollar barrier

Lonhro’s son Pinwheel broke through the million-dollar barrier when going back-to-back in Saturday’s G2 Warwick Stakes over seven furlongs at Warwick Farm in Sydney

Rolling forward to challenge into the stretch, Pinwheel asserted and came clear 100m out to defeat Dubawi’s daughter Secret Admirer and register his sixth Stakes win to advance his earnings to $1,082,400.

“He’s such a brave horse, he gives you 100 percent every time and no horse deserves to win a race like this more than Pinwheel.” said trainer Peter Snowden.

Bred by Woodlands Stud he is out of the Danehill mare Quilt, and is bred on the same cross as G1 winner Benfica who will stand his first season at stud under the Darley banner in 2012.

Australia’s champion sire in 2011/12 and the sire of 33 Stakes winners, Lonhro covered his first Northern Hemisphere mares at Darley Kentucky in 2012.