Just A Way
In the 2012 edition on the World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings he was rated 119lbs, the 74th best racehorse in the world, 21 pounds behind the top-rated Frankel. In the following year he was rated 120lbs, 47th, ten pounds behind Black Caviar and Treve. In the 2014 World's Best Racehorse Rankings, Variety Club was rated the third-best horse to race anywhere in the world at 127lbs behind the Japanese horses Just A Way and Epiphaneia and level with Able Friend, Australia, Kingman and The Grey Gatsby.