Speedy Prince Lincoln and stablemates Maree and Missy fly out to New York on Sunday

Prince Lincoln, who made a habit of breaking the clock earlier this year, has been sold to the United States.

The speedy three-year-old is part of a three-horse package, along with Lincoln Maree and Missy Lincoln, who will fly to New York on Sunday.

The deal, negotiated by Lincoln Farms’ former Queensland trainer Al Barnes, will see the trio join the successful stable of Ricky Bucci and race primarily at Yonkers.

It’s a scenario that Lincoln Farms’ senior trainer Ray Green says should be highly successful for Prince Lincoln.

“He should be way too good for them in the class he’ll start off in over there. He can fly the gate, he has good manners and a great gait.

“I’m sure he’ll do a really good job for them. It won’t matter if the others do nothing at all, he’ll earn them plenty.”

Prince Lincoln won four of his 26 starts here, three of them in May and June when he spreadeagled his opposition each time.

When he cleared out to a seven-and-a-half length annihilation on June 19 his time of 2:38.14 for the 2200 metres, a mile rate of 1:55.6, was just 0.44 of a second outside the Cambridge three-year-old track record set by Follow The Stars.

Uncannily, driver Peter Ferguson predicted then his future lay in North America, a dramatic turnaround for a horse he said once couldn’t get out of his own way.

It followed a six and a half length clinic at Alexandra Park when his 1:53.6 mile rate came within 13 one-hundredths of a second of Greased Lightning’s three-year-old track mark.

And in his previous four and three-quarter length win at Cambridge, when he ran 2:00.32, a mile rate of 1:53.8, his time kissed Hadron Collider’s three-year-old record of 1:59.5.

Lincoln Maree … “a proper little soldier”. PHOTO: Ange Bridson/Race Images.Missy Lincoln scores fresh-up last month. PHOTO: Megan Liefting/Race Images.Prince Lincoln was raced by Lincoln Farms’ owners John and Lynne Street and a big syndicate of their most loyal supporters, Ian Middleton, Lance Myocevich, the Green Machine Racing Syndicate, the Excell Syndicate, Brad Baine, Alana Rabbitt, the estate of Margaret Rabbitt and the Athenry Syndicate.

Fellow three-year-old Lincoln Maree, the winner of three of her 23 starts, might not have the same high speed but Green says she, too, should suit the American style of racing.

“She’s a proper little soldier, feed her some track and she just keeps going.”

Green describes Missy Lincoln as a work in progress, but a filly will undoubted ability.

The Bettor’s Delight filly raced only five times, running fourth in the Group I Delightful Lady Young Guns Classic at her second start, before winning fresh-up at Auckland last month.

Her owners included the Streets, Paul Wyatt, the Green Machine Racing Syndicate, Shannon Flay, the Athenry Syndicate, Duncan Chisholm and Kathy James.

Barnes, who racked up 40 wins for Lincoln Farms in a golden two years between 2019 and 2021, and sold many of them like Trojan Banner, Lincoln’s Girl and Billy Lincoln to the States, is hoping Bucci will be back for more, the trainer already having enjoyed plenty of success with the former Canterbury pacer Venturesome Arden.

Barnes is presently enjoying his own luck with Northview Cruncha, a half-brother to Lincoln Farms’ now retired flagship pacer Northview Hustler, who won 32 races and A$539,713 in his career.

Since buying the three-year-old Captain Crunch colt out of the Pukekohe stable of Hustler’s biggest early fan, Andre Poutama, he has racked up two wins and a second.