Star Thoroughbreds have had a great year with success in $1million races won by Fiesta, Invincibella and Kubrick, their familiar purple and white stars carried to victory again on Oaks Day at Hawkesbury in the Listed Ladies Day Cup by Mossman gelding Cellarman.
The Chris Waller trained six year-old scored a nose win in the 1600 metre feature taking his overall record to nine wins and four placings from 34 starts with prizemoney just shy of $570,000.
A stakes-winner at two in Brisbane, he lost form as an early three year-old and was duly gelded before finding his way back to top form and now looks set to have another good campaign.
A $90,000 Inglis Premier purchase for Star Thoroughbreds from the Yallambee Stud draft, he was originally a $70,000 weanling purchase from the Vinery draft at the Magic Millions National Sale.
A half-brother to stakes-winner Cellar Girl, he is from Vintage Blend, who died in 2017 after having just three foals. Vintage Blend was a half-sister to stakes-winner Vintner from the family of champion filly Triscay.
Cellarman is one of 39 stakes-winners for Vinery Stud’s now retired stalwart Mossman.
Mossman was not the only Vinery sire to produce a stakes-winner on thursday with All Too Hard siring Hard Landing to win the Group III VRC Maribyrnong Plate , read about him here.
