Vinery Still Kicking Goals
Blue Diamond Stakes success, Samaready, is in foal to Vinery’s resident sire, All Too Hard, whether the result is a colt or a filly, it will be looked upon with great anticipation as both sire and dam were Group 1 winners.
Sure, it is all a part of the glorious uncertainty of breeding, youth is a very important factor, a great exponent of that formula was David Hains, a private breeder, most of his successful race mares were retired when they turned four year old.
Samaready was clearly among the best fillies of her year; she won six races in all and was carefully placed.
Stakes Winner For Onemorenomore
Vinery’s recent acquisition, Onemorenomore, who formerly stood at Patinack, achieved his first stakes winner, Onemorezeta, who gave a polished display in winning the Group 3 Gucci Stakes.
She is a filly with a lot of potential; she graduated from a maiden win two starts ago at Muswellbrook, from there a mid weeker at Warwick Farm, from there a Group 3 at Flemington.
She has met the challenge each time the bar has been raised, with natural improvement a Group1 may not be that far away.
Onemorezeta defeating Eloping
Congrats Still Makes News Stateside
Racehorse trainers have been known to dream, in fact it happens often, that colt back in the box might just be the ticket to easy street.
After Toasting Master, by Congrats, won a maiden race by four lengths at Churchill Downs recently, his trainer, Dale Romans, began dreaming we could come back again in May, for more prize money of course.
His rider, Miguel Mena, is also looking ahead; he has quite a wrap on the son of Congrats, believing he will get further.
Toasting Master was purchased as a yearling by West Point Thoroughbreds for $220,000, based mainly on his relationship, being a three quarter brother to R Gypsy Gold and a half brother to the 2012 Kentucky Oaks runner up, also Broadway Alibi and Group winner Golden Lad.
Congrats is third on the North American two year old sire’s premiership, with 14 individual winners earning $1.60 million in prize money.
Dothraki Weighted Out Of Races
Dothraki, the brilliant sprinting son of Mossman, may have to look at greener pastures after having to shoulder 60kg in winning the Celebrations Handicap at Rosehill recently.
It is obvious he is a smart horse, however, the rise in weight appears to be a bit sudden as his winning strike rate is just 25 per cent.
He may be seen in Melbourne shortly, his trainer, Gerald Ryan, has often brought down a horse or two in the off season, mainly sprinters and seldom leaves empty handed.
Dothraki is pretty handy and is likely to be treated more leniently, weight wise, than he has been in Sydney where he is trained.