News - OLE KIRK (AUS)
Vinery Stud’s Ole Kirk added an 11th winner to his tally when the Clinton McDonald trained filly Miss Ole scored a stylish win in quick time at Sandown on Saturday.
A share in first season sire sensation Ole Kirk will be offered on Day One of the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale on Tuesday.
Today’s Australian Broodmare Sale concluded a record-breaking Sydney Breeding Stock Sales Series which ended with unprecedented metrics across the board with the highlight today a mare sold in foal to exciting young sire Ole Kirk.
Gilgai Farm have bred two of Australia’s best two-year-olds this season and promising Ole Kirk youngster Aerodrome looks likely to be given a chance to be their third season stakes winner after making it two wins from two starts at Hawkesbury on Saturday.
Vinery Stud announced service fees earlier this week with Ole Kirk given a sizable increase up to $99,000 and if anyone needed reminding as to why, we got that at Morphettville on Saturday when exciting two year-old Legacy Bound scored a dominant win in the Group III SAJC Breeders’ Stakes (1200m).
Ole Kirk unleashed another debut winner at Wyong on Thursday when Tiberius carried the Darby Racing colours to victory in a 1000m open maiden beating older rivals to become the tenth winner for his sire from just 17 starters!
Ole Kirk went clear again at the top of First Season Winners list on Wednesday when the Michael Freedman trained Aerodrome made a tough winning debut at Warwick Farm.
Kind of nice to see an impressive Ole Kirk debut winner carrying the colours of Vinery Stud, which is home to this most exciting young sire.
Racing at Flemington on Saturday produced another great result for Vinery Stud’s classy young sire Ole Kirk with talented colt Prestige Ole making it two wins from three starts when taking out the $175,000 VRC VOBIS Gold Plate (1400m).
The $5million Group I ATC Golden Slipper used to have a massive bearing on the 2YO sires list by earnings and whoever sired the winner was a moral to take Champion 2YO Sire honours, but with a proliferation of $1million juvenile races that is no longer the case.
Vinery Stud’s young gun sire Ole Kirk added a new stakes-winner to his tally at Moonee Valley on Saturday when talented colt Prestige Forever kicked away to win the $175,000 Listed MVRC Moonee Valley Pearl (1200m) with a dominant display.
Fresh off a Friday double, Vinery Stud’s red-hot Ole Kirk did it again on Saturday with two debut winners taking him to the top of both first season sire tables.
Vinery Stud’s freshman Ole Kirk has created a big impression with his first crop and he produced two new winners on Friday at Newcastle and Ballarat.
Vinery Stud have enjoyed a dream start to the stud career of Ole Kirk, whose story started back at Inglis Premier in 2019 when he fetched $675,000 for Gilgai Farm and six years on this exciting young stallion has 11 yearlings to be offered and four of them are presented by Vinery.
Bred and offered for sale by leading Victorian nursery Gilgai Farm, who also bred and sold her sire Ole Kirk, O' Ole scored a dominant win in the $3million Magic Millions 2YO Classic on Friday night at the Gold Coast.
Having looked at the performance of first season sires at Magic Millions Book 1 on Sunday, we decided to take a look at the second season horses given the strong racetrack start for Wootton Bassett (GB), Farnan and Ole Kirk, who have all sired top class pre-Christmas juveniles.
Vinery Stud’s Ole Kirk has already sired two stakes-winners from his first crop of two year-olds in ill-fated King Kirk and O’ Ole, who runs in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic on Saturday, and the son of Written Tycoon had a sales highlight at the Gold Coast on Friday when his colt from Pop Girl made $700,000.
It’s early days for the current juvenile season with only a tiny percentage of the crop seen in action so far, but as we head into the Christmas holiday period three of the top five sires on the two year-old sires list are all first season horses and that’s good news for Kia Ora Stud, Yulong and Vinery Stud.
Vinery Stud’s young stallion Ole Kirk is off to a flyer and now has two winners and both are stakes-winners with ill-fated Group III ATC Breeders Plate winner King Kirk now joined by quality filly O’ Ole, who booked her ticket to the Gold Coast in January when leading home a fillies trifecta in the $200,000 Magic Millions Wyong 2YO Classic (1100m).
Ole Kirk’s first stakes-winner King Kirk was in action at the barrier trials at Randwick this morning, but in tragic news the winner of the Group III ATC Breeders Plate lost his life later in the day following an incident at the swimming pool.