News - HEADWATER (AUS)
We’re two weeks into a new season and the cream has quickly risen to the top of the Australian General Sires List and the quinella we see right now could easily be the same quinella come the end of next July, but there is one value sire that has made a great start to the season and if you’re still looking for proven value to suit your mare he might be your man.
Vinery Stud is a new addition to Premium stallions with their full roster of six stallions all available for Hypothetical matings and linked right throughout the Breednet site into race results and sire tables.
Jamaea - a star race filly in Sydney over the last number of seasons - is the latest high profile lot earmarked for sale with Inglis Digital, having been confirmed for the July (Late) auction.
Every year at the end of August Vinery opens the gates and invites you to get up close and inspect our elite stallions.
Catalogued to sell under the Mill Park banner at next month's Inglis Chairman's Sale, Mileva will contest Saturday's Group III RN Irwin Stakes (1100m) at Morphettville Parks in what could be her last hurrah for owner Michael Birchall and trainer Phillip Stokes.
A solid early pace set by Joy Rider and the favourite Little Tycoon in the Furphy 3yo Maiden (1400m) at Randwick-Kensington on Friday set the race up for a thrilling finish.
The South Australians hit the board on Oaks Day at Flemington when Richard and Chantelle Jolly’s Headwater filly Aitch Two Oh won the Group III News First Red Roses Stakes (1100m) for three-year-old fillies.
There are few more likeable mares around than the Headwater 4yo Mileva, who earned a fourth stakes success when pulling the Group III Neds Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) out of the fire at Caulfield on Saturday.
A Group 1 for All Too Hard with Alligator Blood in the Stradbroke followed by a Group 1 for Star Turn with Startantes in the Tatt’s Tiara, Headwater may have felt like the odd man out on the Vinery roster before chipping in with two exciting winners on Saturday.
Short-priced favourite Aitch Two Oh was given a fright by Peter Moody’s Winning Rupert debutant Winning Revolution before the daughter of Headwater dug deep to earn a maiden stakes success in Saturday’s Without Fear Stakes at Morphettville.
Girl power was to the fore at the close of Saturday’s Magic Millions card at the Gold Coast as star trainer Annabel Neasham and Group 1 jockey Rachel King combined to win the $1 million Racing Queensland Magic Millions QTIS (1300m) with Headwater entire Wisdom of Water.
The striking Headwater entire Wisdom of Water is gradually returning to the form that made him one of the most exciting two-year-olds in the nation two seasons back.
The family of the Phillip Stokes-trained mare Mileva has a rich history in the Listed Kensington Stakes, a race won by Mileva’s sire Headwater, while Headwater’s dam River Dove was second in 2003.
Following two disappointing runs in Adelaide after defeating the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes heroine Lyre by three-quarters of a length in the Listed Manahi Classic at Morphettville in March, the 4yo Headwater mare Mileva bounced back for an authoritative win in the Listed Alinghi stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
The Tuncurry meeting on Friday was abandoned after just four races, but that was time enough for Davali Thoroughbreds Alison and David Hush to celebrate a debut victory for their Headwater colt Heights.
With most attention focused on the three-year-olds at Sandown, a couple of promising youngsters were put to the test at Gosford on Wednesday.
Despite winning the $1million Percy Sykes Stakes in the autumn and a model of consistency, the Headwater filly Jamaea has often been underrated, which may change following her barnstorming victory in Saturday's Group II Darley Furious Stakes (1200m) at Randwick.
We’ve had a month of racing in the new season with the first two Group I races in Sydney and Melbourne run and won and Vinery Stud will be hoping the sire tables look just like this come the end of the season.
The Anthony Cummings-trained Tristate was the most experienced of the seven runners in Wednesday’s Arrowfield Virtual Parade Maiden (1100m) at Randwick-Kensington, and it showed.
The first of August marks the beginning of a new season and all the hard work of the previous 12 months is reflected in end of season sires tables with the second and third season divisions producing two new champion sires in Headwater and Deep Field.