Vinery Stud is confident of another successful Inglis Classic Yearling Sale this month after posting across-the-board records at Riverside Stables in 2022.

There are 36 yearlings in the 2023 consignment compared to this time last year when 15 Lots grossed $2.39million at an average of $114,000 off an 88% clearance rate.

A Trapeze Artist filly also smashed the record for Vinery’s Classic Sale graduates when making $430,000 to Sheriff Iskander and agent Suman Hedge.  Named Allaboutella, she won a Randwick trial in October and is back in training with Michael Freedman.

The 2022 receipts also included $140,000 for Star Turn filly Saltaire who launched another breakout 2yo season for Vinery Stud winning the $500,000 Inglis Nursery (RL, 1000m) at Randwick in December.  She is also ready to return for John O’Shea after getting out late for a closing fourth in a Warwick Farm trial on Monday.

Yearlings by Vinery freshman Exceedance will sell for the first time in Sydney at the Inglis Classic Sale from February 12 to 14.  The Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes winner averaged $169,000 (Gold Coast Magic Millions) and $175,000 (NZB Karaka Sale) with another 14 lots heading to Riverside Stables.

Vinery is prepping four of them and bloodstock manager Adam White began by mentioning the Exceedance cross with Vinery legend More Than Ready (USA).

“Lot 47 is a good-sized filly from the More Than Ready mare Seismic Warning.  She’s a well-balanced, with a nice amount of scope.  We’ve been keen to get a few More Than Ready mares to Exceedance and so have our clients.

“His sire Exceed And Excel has had a fair degree of success over them with the best example being Bivouac.  This filly looks as if she will go early enough and has a female family to suggest she might improve later on.”

Lot 239 is the Exceedance colt from Alma’s Angel (Al Maher) who is a half-sister to Group-winners Sistine Angel and Sistine Demon.  “He’s a very athletic mover and is also a horse with good scope.  And he’s a very attractive bay colour that the sireline is renowned for.”

Lot 283 is the Exceedance colt out of Blazing Dragon (Pendragon) who won over $200,000 in Sydney for Bart Cummings and Dato Tan Chin Nam.  “He’s extremely athletic – just like his sire,” White said.  “He might lack a little bit of page but his mother could clearly run and he looks as though he will do the same.”

While on the sireline, Vinery has a very nice Exceed And Excel filly from Gheedaa catalogued as Lot 444.  “She looks a real two year-old which you would expect with Exceed And Excel.  Well-built and looks a pre-Christmas type juvenile.”

Vinery’s growing influence Star Turn is setting a good example for Exceedance with 56 individual winners on the Australian third-crop table so far this season.  He’s second behind Capitalist (81) whose had twice as many individual starters this season.

“We have quite a nice group of Star Turns and he’s having such a good run at the moment.  Lot 49 is a quality filly from Sencircles (Street Sense).  She is a three-quarter sister to the Group 3 winner Threeood who is by Star Turn’s sire Star Witness.  She’s a deep-girthed filly and has good looks to go with that black-type family.”

“Lot 243 has a lot of class about him with a good quality head and that’s typical of the Star Turns.  His dam Amorita (Foxwedge) won as a juvenile so he should go quite early.”

“Lot 339 is from So You Think mare Considering and, although a different colour, she has the same quality as Star Turn filly Saltaire who we sold at the 2022 Classic Sale to win the Inglis Nursery.  She looks an early runner and So You Think is already the damsire of Golden Slipper winner Fireburn.

Lot 429 is a Star Turn November foal he already looks quite sharp.  His mother Florida Girl is by Golden Slipper winner Sebring and his second dam is by Exceed And Excel so he could get up and run early.

“Lot 553 is a quality Star Turn colt with a great walk.  His dam Leveller (Redoute’s Choice) has also foaled Frolic who we sold at the 2016 Sydney Classic Sale to win the Reisling Stakes and then place in the Golden Slipper.”

Vinery has two All Too Hard colts that really look like racehorses according to White.  “The beauty of All Too Hard is that his stock train on and get better as they mature – Alligator Blood, Forbidden Love, Behemoth, Wellington are all classic examples of their durability.

“Lot 100 is an athlete and appears quite forward for an All Too Hard.  His dam foaled Pomade (Star Turn) first-up and he was a city-winning two year-old at Doomben last season.  This guy looks as though he might go early enough, too”

Lot 566 is certainly one of better colts by All Too Hard and White believes there will be a lot of interest from Asia given Wellington is Hong Kong’s Champion Sprinter.  “He’s a real racehorse with lots of quality.  His dam is a Lonhro mare and All Too Hard has worked very well with them – his very first Stakes-winner Curdled was out of a Lonhro mare.”

Vinery will commence Riverside Stables inspections for its Classic Sale draft of 36 yearlings on Tuesday morning at Barn I.