Vinery Stud commenced its Magic Millions inspections on Wednesday with 23 yearlings parading at Stables H and I on the Gold Coast sale-grounds.
They’ve settled in seamlessly and represent a wide cross-section of sires with a highlight being Vinery’s Group 1 freshman Exceedance. “We’re excited to be presenting his first crop here,” Vinery’s Bloodstock Manager Adam White said. “Our first colt from Meikas (Lot 105) is a typical Exceedance – he’s a sharp looking type and won’t be too long getting to the races.”
All 23 Vinery yearlings are catalogued in Book 1 starting with the filly by Vinery’s immediate stud success Star Turn from Joyful Journey filly (Lot 15). “She sells early on Tuesday and will be very popular,” White claimed. “She’s all quality and, physically, she’s one of our best fillies in the draft.”
The Vinery consignment includes 14 yearlings by outside stallions and, apart from Exceedance’s breed-shaping sire Excel and Excel, they include Australian champions Fastnet Rock, Written Tycoon and Snitzel.
Multiple Australian Champion Fastnet Rock is the first outside sire on account of Vinery with the colt from Madame Lily (Lot 87) Vinery graduates by Fastnet Rock began at the 2010 Magic Millions when Champion Australian 3YO Filly & Mare Atlantic Jewel was purchased by Demi O’Byrne for $320,000.
Madame Lily (More Than Ready) was a Snowden Racing winner in Sydney and carries the same cross as NZ 2000 Guineas (Gr.1, 1600m) winner Atlante. She represents a family near-and-dear to Vinery going back to More Than Ready’s first southern-crop colt Benicio who won the 2005 VRC Victoria Derby (Gr.1, 2500m).
Written Tycoon, Champion Australian Sire in 2020-21, has a bred-to-win Vinery filly out of Mossman’s proven producer Cubana Moss (Lot 763). The best of her half-dozen winners to date has been the Brett Cavanough-trained flyer Star Boy (Pluck). “Written Tycoon is doing a good job at stud and ours is a really nice, attractive, scopey filly,” White said. Her page is also etched in Vinery’s elite roll-call through Red Dazzler in the 2006 MRC Toorak Hcp (Gr.1, 1600m).
Red Dazzler was the second-southern Group 1 winner by Vinery Australia’s foundation sire Red Ransom. The first was Charge Forward in the 2005 AJC The Galaxy (Gr.1, 1100m) and he’s the damsire of Vinery’s Yes Yes Yes – Silent Rush colt (Lot 387) on Day 2 at the Magic Millions.
Four-time Australian Champion Snitzel signs off Book 1 on Saturday evening with the Vinery filly from Ivory Rose (Lot 979). “She has a Group 1 European pedigree and is a very forward filly,” White said.
Vinery’s strike-rate is second-to-none with Snitzel fillies on the Gold Coast. Exhilarates was a $600,000 buy for Godolphin at the 2018 Magic Millions and she retired with enormous residual value following five black-type victories and earnings over $2.4million. Exhilarates delivered her first foal – a Street Boss colt – in September.
Cambridge Stud owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay parted with $280,000 for Snitzel filly Letzbeglam from Vinery at the 2019 Magic Millions. A potent 2yo blitzing the 2020 Blue Diamond Prelude (Gr.2, 1100m) at Caulfield, she returned home from last year’s Brisbane winter carnival to win the Counties Bowl (Gr.3, 1100m) at Pukekohe in November.
