Saturday was a big occasion day for Vinery Stud, and more so for Myboycharlie, siring his first Group winner with Charley Boy recording a brilliant win in the Group 2 Danehill Stakes at Flemington.

The success could not have come at a more opportune time for Myboycharlie, going into his fourth breeding season at Vinery.

Seen as a brilliant horse, with a good turn of foot that saw him successful in the Group 1 Prix Morny France’s premier two year old race held at Deauville, a right handed track near Normanby.

Myboycharlie is a shuttle stallion, originally he stood for two seasons at the National Stud Newmarket, and the last two seasons in the northern hemisphere at Haras-Du Mezaray.

Charley Boy’s Flemington win, was followed up in France yesterday, when Salai scored a two and a half length win at Crayon.

The sire of Myboycharley, Dantime, formerly stood for three seasons at Bellbridge Park Stud in Western Australia.

Vinery’s evergreen sire, Testa Rossa, is one of those horses that seldom receive the recognition he is entitled to, he is more or less taken for granted.

Yet he has proved a great dual purpose horse, a success on the racetrack and at stud, with progeny earnings to his credit of $ 52.041 million.

Testa Rossa can boast a proud record against serious competition when Speediness won the Bobbie Lewis Quality at Flemington; it increased the total number of races won to 514 for the evergreen sire.

To date he has sired 46 Stakes horses, that includes 18 Group winners, and still going strong at 17 years of age.

Testa Rossa is by Perugino, he only had one start when winning at Leopardstown, he was clearly among the very best bred stallions to come into the southern hemisphere, being a three quarter brother by Danzig, to Sadler’s Well s and Fairy King, out of the family of Nureyev and Thatch.

More Than Ready completed a good day at the office when he sired the last winner on the program at Pakenham on Saturday, with Get Pronto scoring an easy win.

Testa Rossa - A Sire with a proven record