News - STAR TURN (AUS)

Vinery Stud’s promising young sire Star Turn already has a stakes-winner in Hong Kong in Cordyceps Six and now he also has one in Singapore with speedy three year-old Golden Monkey winning the Singapore Sprint Sng G3 (1200m) at Kranji on Saturday beating another Star Turn in Silent is Golden.

Australasian bred sprinters filled the trifecta in the Group III Sha Tin Vase (1200m ) on Sunday with three year-old Star Turn gelding Cordyceps Six proving too good for Nervous Witness (Star Witness) and Lucky Patch (El Roca).

Vinery Stud’s Star Turn has been on a winning run of late.

Making her first start in 26 weeks, the promising Star Turn filly Me Me Lagarde came with a barnstorming finish from the tail of the field to open her stakes account in Saturday’s $200,000 Listed Gold Edition Stakes at Eagle Farm.

The Nervous Witness bubble burst at Sha Tin on Sunday when the boom four year-old could only finish fourth in the Class Three sprint over 1000m with victory going to Star Turn three year-old Cordyceps Six.

Star Turn has an interesting runner in the Group I ATC Golden Rose on Saturday with his Brisbane based filly Startantes set to test her mettle against the big guns and he also had a debut winner at Cranbourne on Thursday for Team Hawkes.

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.

Kim Waugh will have a lot of fun with this three year-old son of Vinery Stud’s young gun sire Star Turn.

Vinery Stud’s Star Turn took it to the final day in his quest for champion first-crop sire for individual winners. Despite the victory of the Kim Waugh-trained gelding Turning in a 1000m maiden at Muswellbrook on Saturday, Star Turn will fall one winner short of equalling Newgate Farms season-long leader Capitalist.

The $550,000 outlaid by Hawkes Racing for the Star Turn colt Montana Flash represented a high mark for his sire and dam, who descends from a family that once ruled the ring.

Star Turn has again drawn within one of Capitalist as leading first season sire for number of individual winners following the win of Wilkshire in a 1012m maiden at the Sapphire Coast on Sunday.

Here is one title few would have predicted going down to the last few weeks of the season; with the win of Avolonte at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday, Star Turn drew within one of Capitalist for the number of individual first crop winners.

While it looked safe a few weeks ago to pencil in Capitalist as leading first season sire for number of winners, Star Turn drew within two of the lead following the win of Galaxy Cat at Belmont on Saturday. Then to complete a good weekend for the Vinery Stud-based stallion, his stakes-winning daughter Miss Hipstar led every step of the way in Sunday’s Bruce McLaughlin Classic at the Sunshine

Making her third trip to the races, the Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes-trained filly Turnstar rewarded the faith of punters when opening her winning account over 900m at Newcastle on Saturday.

Star Turn has another promising type in the John Sargent-trained My Snow Queen, who opened her winning account with a three and a quarter length romp in an all-aged fillies and mares maiden over 1300m at Goulburn on Friday.

With service fees on the rise, finding value in an extremely hot market is getting tougher.

There was a lot to like about the winning career debut of the Star Turn filly All About Eve in the Catanach's Jewellers Maiden (1100m) at Bendigo on Sunday.

Whenever it appears safe to claim that Capitalist has a stranglehold on the first season sires tile for number of winners, Star Turn counters with a winner of his own.

Vinery Stud’s Star Turn posted his fourth winner in four days when Me Me Lagarde carried Gerry Harvey’s colours to victory at Ipswich on Monday.

Fresh from siring his first stakes-winner on Saturday in Miss Hipstar, Vinery Stud’s Star Turn posted his first Hong Kong winner on Sunday when Cordyceps Six saluted at Sha Tin bringing a timely pedigree update for his half-sister selling at Inglis HTBA May today.