Hunter Valley nursery Vinery Stud has an impressive track record for success with past graduates such as Golden Slipper winner Farnan and Blue Diamond hero Artorius, but their draft for Inglis Classic can also deliver a big result such as Sepals.
In 2023, Vinery offered an unassuming colt by Calyx (GB) that caught the eye of astute trainer Cliff Brown, who was able to take him home with a bid of $80,000.
Sepals won three of his first four starts and returned last spring as a four year-old to win the Group I MRC Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes before producing a gallant second to freakish mare Autumn Glow in the $10million ATC Golden Eagle.
Sepals has won $2.7million and with five wins from nine starts is still a comparatively untapped talent.
The Vinery brand was in the winners circle again at Rosehill on Saturday where exciting three year-old Sixties resumed from a spell with a powerful win prompting his trainer Chris Waller to declare the Group I VRC Australian Guineas as his target race. Read more about him here.
Another star graduate this season for Vinery Stud has been exciting Kiwi trained 2YO filly Lara Antipova, who has had two starts for two wins including a facile victory in the Group II Wakefield Challenge Stakes.
Her three-quarter brother will be a head turner in the Classic draft this year given his striking resemblance to his first season sire In The Congo.
Offered as Lot 641, the colt is also half-brother to three more winners and is from Artistic Lass, a metro winning half-sister to Group winners Sistine Angel and Sistine Demon.
Click here to see the full draft of 31 Vinery yearlings for Classic with highlights below:
Lot 175 Filly All Too Hard x Medovina, by Exceed and Excel
By top class proven G1 sire All Too Hard and is fourth foal of a metro winning half-sister to G3 winner Brave Mead, SW Solemn and to the dam of G3 winner Raf Attack. Bred on the same all Too Hard x Exceed and Excel cross as SW Unfair Dismissal.
Her half-brother by Snitzel is a 2YO colt purchased by James Harron and Tony Fung Colts Partnership from the 2025 Magic Millions Sale for $850,000, he has since been named Dominator and is in training with Michael Freedman.
Lot 292 Colt Ole Kirk x Peace Force, by Bernardini (USA)
Half-brother to stakes-placed Nobel from G3 winner Peace Force, a half-sister to five time G1 winner Eremein, SW Gliding and to the dam of G3 winner Gangsta Granny.
With only two dams on the page, this colt has a serious pedigree and is by Ole Kirk, who runs at over 7% SW to runner with his oldest progeny just 3YOs.
Lot 373 Colt Russian Revolution x Runway Star, by Northern Meteor
Half-brother to very smart sprinter Brave One, who has been stakes-placed since the catalogue went to print and is from G3 winner Runway Star, a half-sister to SW What You Need from the family of G1 winners Wrap Around and Fashions Afield.
Bred on the same Russian Revolution x Northern Meteor cross as G1 Randwick Guineas winner Communist.
Lot 437 Colt Star Turn x Slightly Sweet, by Charge Forward
Half-brother to a winner and is third foal of dual G3 winner Slightly Sweet, who won over $500,000 with multiple Group placings and she traces back to an international Black Type family.
By Star Turn, who has a growing reputation in Hong Kong, where he has sired 10 winners.
Lot 635 Filly Exceedance x Arctic Success, by Big Brown (USA)
Half-sister to four winners headed by dual G2 winner and $1million earner Roots, who was bought from the Vinery draft at Inglis Classic in 2020 for just $52,000.
Dam is a half-sister to Golden Slipper winner Polar Success from a prolific Black Type family and sire Exceedance has had Group winning fillies Dance to the Boom and Pure Excess this season.
