Breeding & Racing Magazine

Believe Yourself Wins Gr2 Sweet Embrace Stakes

At Randwick, Australia's Champion 2YO Colt of 2007-2008 and Widden Stud sire Sebring (More Than Ready-Purespeed, by Flying Spur) added a group success when 2YO filly Believe Yourself (Sebring-Private, by Encosta de Lago) scored by 0.2-length for trainer Gerald Ryan in the $175,000 Gr2 Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m) for 2YO fillies, over fellow 2YO fillies Twirl (Lonhro-Cirque du Soleil, by Danehill) & Tetsuko (I Am Invincible-Magdalena, by Snaadee). This was the first stakes victory for Believe Yourself who took her record to 2 wins from 2 starts for $123,950 earnings. Believe Yourself was purchased by T Sekiguchi for $140,000 at the 2013 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale from the draft of Turangga Farm.