Mick Price knows all too well how explosive the More Than Ready – Danehill cross can be having guided Perfectly Ready to Group 1 success.

The newest exponent of this remarkable nick was there for all to see on Thursday when Price’s exciting colt Al Aneed posted a powerful first-up victory in the Eastcoast Plumbtec Plate (1208m) at Sale.

Al Aneed (3c More Than Ready – Al Anood by Danehill) was tipped out after an eye-catching debut at Sandown back in February.  He started an odds-on favourite when resuming and put the race to bed with a brilliant turn of foot in the straight.

Al Aneed is a homebred for Sheikh bin Khalifa Al Maktoum who raced Perfectly Ready with Vinery towards the end of his sparking career.  He is from a half-sister to the dam of G1 racehorse and sire Invincible Spirit.

More Than Ready has produced more than 50 individual winners out of Danehill mares led by Group 1 winners Benicio, Dreamaway and Perfectly Ready who was NZ’s Champion First Season Sire in 2010-11.

Price prepared a Group 1 for Vinery when Bel Mer won the 2009 Robert Sangster Stakes and his on-going support continues this season with Vinery sire Myboycharlie.

His first-crop colt from Catbird mare Salix Caprea is a readymade runner according to Price.  “He’s a good-sized colt with a lovely nature and the breaker reports he moves nicely,” Price said.  “I think the Myboycharlies will race early as two year-olds, just like he did.”

Salix Caprea is the dam of last-start Echuca winner Star Bender and the Chris Waller trained filly Catkins.  The latter won a Kembla maiden at the start of the year and then flashed home to be beaten a couple of lengths in the G2 Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill.

Catkins will resurface from a six month spell in the LR Reginald Allen Quality (1200m) at Rosehill this Saturday.