Vinery Sire Power a Classic Drawcard

Sponsored Content - by Tara Madgwick - Tuesday February 4

Vinery Stud have a super draft of 33 to present at Inglis Classic and 20 of those horses are by the farm's proven stallions All Too Hard, Exceedance, Star Turn and Ole Kirk, who have all sired stakes-winners this season and the latter is currently the leading first season sire and leading 2YO sire in the country.

Stallion power is part of the equation to achieve success on the racetrack, but there are also other considerations such as female pedigree and the right environment and upbringing and Vinery are ticking all the boxes with some cracking stakes-winning three year-olds to emerge from their sales drafts this season.

Growing Empire is one of the current stars to emerge from Vinery Stud - image Grant Courtney

Leading the list is Group I placed glamour colt Growing Empire, who won a trial at Cranbourne on Monday, along with exciting filly Too Darn Lizzie and talented colt Gatsby’s, who is set resume this Saturday in the Listed ATC Eskimo Prince Quality.

Click here to see the Vinery Inglis Classic draft with highlights below:

Lot 57 Colt Exceedance x Beechal, by Lonhro

Fourth foal of a winning half-sister to Group III winner Table Bay and has had a couple of good pedigree updates. He is a three-quarter brother to Spicy Spangle, who is now a winner in Hong Kong and he is a full brother to 2YO Bellagio World, who was bought at Inglis Premier last year for $220,000 by Winning Stud / Satomi Oka Bloodstock and exported to Japan. Bellagio World finished second on debut at Nakayama over 1600m on January 6.

Lot 177 Filly Too Darn Hot (GB) x Dreams And Wishes, by Galileo

The only filly in the sale by Champion Australian First Season Sire and current Leading Second Season Sire Too Darn Hot. Half-sister to three winners from a winning blueblood Galileo sibling to Champion South African Sprinter Laisserfaire, Group III tinner A Time for Julia and SW’s Time Thief, Foreplay and Personify, the dam of Group I VRC Oaks winner Personal.

Lot 255 Filly Star Turn x Gold Epona, by Stratum

Half-sister to Group III winner Bring the Ransom from multiple Group placed Gold Epona, a grand-daughter of Group I VATC Thousand Guineas winner Shizu. Bred on a similar Star Turn x Redoute’s Choice nick to SW Miss Hipstar.

Lot 271 Colt Ole Kirk x Hams Al Lail, by Dream Ahead (USA)

Likable colt that is well stamped by his sire Ole Kirk.  Second foal of a winning mare from one of the best female families in Europe. Fourth dam is Group I Prix de Diane winner East of the Moon, the grand-dam of Champion European 3YO Filly Alpha Centauri, and fifth dam is the legend herself Miesque.

Lot 389 Colt All Too Hard x Lonyx, by Lonhro

Full brother to metro juvenile winner All Inclusive and is from a winning sibling to Group III winner Sexy Eyes, stakes-winner Tina Melina and to the dam of Group III winner Aspect and stakes-winner Brown Ben. Bred on the exact same cross as stakes-winner Curdled.

Lot 678 Colt All Too Hard x Spoils, by Snitzel

Colt from a happening family! Half-brother to two winners and is fourth foal from Group III placed Spoils, a half-sister to rising HK star and Group III Chinese Club Challenge Cup winner Patch of Theta as well as promising juvenile Yamashita’s Gold (2c Wootton Bassett (GB), who was second on debut in the Listed MRC Blue Diamond Preview. Bred on the exact same cross as Group III winner Hard Landing and stakes-winner Viva Vienna plus two more Group placed horses Elkington Road and Saas Fee.

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