Aptly named stallion ‘More Than Looks’ – courage, determination, formidable speed are qualities and potential to his first Southern Hemisphere Australian Season – 2025 https://yulonginvest.com.au/stallions-yulong-investments/more-than-looks/

Noted for his balance and strong constitution, he is noted as an outcross over Danehill-line mares.

https://www.pedigreequery.com/more+than+looks

His sire More Than Ready (Halo male line) was a leading World Sire with the quality as outright game and determined in action. He stood 16 hands and had an excellent temperament. More Than Ready was a versatile stallion with top progeny on both turf and dirt and had Grade/Group 1 winners from sprint distances up to 2400 metres.

More than Looks TBL profile has – First Landing sire of 1971 Champion 2yo Colt, 1973 Champion Older Horse & 1998 Racing Hall of Fame the great Riva Ridge.

🏆✅👉For some time, we’ve taken an increasing interest to this wonderful, yet much less talked strain@ First Landing. Breeding talks to much of speed – much less of bone & phenotype.

Grandsire, More than Ready> 3rd dam/daughter Good Landing (First Landing) >> 2x La Troienne (Teddy) + 2x Black Servant are all high-quality speed factors.

Penny (Chenery) Tweedy led in the winning Secretariat, but then sought out Riva Ridge later explaining, “I have the greatest admiration for Secretariat, but I love Riva Ridge.

https://claibornefarm.com/history/hof/riva-ridge/

Insights @ Riva Ridge (First Landing) figures through to 2025 $5,000,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Mixed Sale 2025 black-type producer mare, Puca. (Big Brown). Puca’s 5th dam Castle Ridge by Riva Ridge. Puca is the dam of 2023 Kentucky Derby winner Mage, 2024 Belmont Stakes winner Dornoch, Gr 1 Winner Baeza.

First Landing dam Hildene designated Blue Hen mare, Reine-de-Course was also dam of Hill Prince (Princequillo). 4×4 Ben Brush (Bramble) – 5×4 Commando (Domino) they’re gold: old-stock American bred genes with toughness and brilliant speed with 5×5 Hampton.

Sire, More Than Looks (US) has the pedigree well stacked with the back-lines Teddy ✅🏆& Princequillo ✅🏆. His female distaff @ family 2-N signals co-affinity inheritance to Teddy (also 2-N) and likely gets the G haplotype winning (the winning Chromosome? homogozity admix. Hildene (family 9-b) > G Haplotype. (note More Than Looks sire More Than Ready has Sea-Bird, also a family 2-N)

More Than Looks sire pedigree is for mine, one that should go places…and genetically anywhere. The important genetics furthers@ his 3rd dam Vanquished (5×3 Dr Fager &Empire Maker @ 4×3 In Reality, direct male descent of champion Man O War by Fair Play) )being the optimal carriers of the thoroughbred. The type-setter Man O War (Fair Play) stakes upon grand-sire More Than Ready in 3rd dam Sea Saga (5×4 Discovery> Display> Fair Play).

Teddy (direct Orme male line) and Princequillo (direct male line – St Simon line) is the Long Term Plan to advancing invincibility – a very meaningful pattern in pedigrees of horses.

Quality determines bone & phenotype, alongside speed.

The Belmont Stakes was Riva’s kind of race. No mud, no surprises—just a long, grueling stretch where the best horse would prove himself. And when the gates flew open, Riva ran like he had something to prove. There was no contest. He powered home seven lengths ahead, an easy, effortless winner (ttps://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=riva%20ridge%20colt)

Sire, More Than Looks is USD $15,000 in the United States and AUD $22,000 (inclusive of GST) in Australia for the 2025 and 2026 breeding seasons. 

He stands at Lane’s End Farm in Kentucky, USA, and shuttles to Yulong Stud in Victoria, Australia. He is a new stallion for the 2025 season. https://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-register/stallions/173039/more-than-looks#:~:text=More%20Than%20Ready%20%2D%20Ladies’%20Privilege,Arthur’s%20Ride