The Group 1 Moir Stakes produced a satisfying result for Vinery with the winner, Samaready, and Buffering, second completing the quinella.

Both are by Vinery based sires Samaready, by More Than Ready, currently the highest money earning sire in the southern hemisphere and Buffering by Mossman, a very much under rated stallion.

Samaready has returned to racing in brilliant fashion, if anything better that ever after a long layoff from injury.

She made a successful comeback to racing at Caulfield two weeks ago, her first start since August 2012 when running fourth in the Quezette Stakes, she suffered a strained hamstring on a track declared unsuitable.

Time and patience proved the best and only remedy, a lush paddock at Vinery Stud, if there was the slightest doubt about a complete recovery it would have meant retirement.

Her mission is now the $1 million Manikato Stakes on the eve of the Cox Plate, they can bring on the imports, she is the one they have to beat on what we saw on Friday evening.

She is the star of the Mick Price stable, and why wouldn’t she be? A dual Group 1 success and a winner now of six of her eight starts.

Buffering deserved to win the Moir Stakes, it would have been his first Group 1 success in a long string of wins, but there was no accounting for Samaready, she finished at the rate of gun fire and had the issue put away within a few strides.

Mossman, the sire of Buffering, has been a solid asset at Vinery; he has had to compete in the shadow of More Than Ready, which would be a hard act to follow for any sire in any era.

Now in his eighteenth year he was rewarded with another winner over the week end when Vintage Moss won at Eagle Farm, his progeny earnings now exceeds $26.5 million, he continues to keep the flag flying at Vinery.

Samaready in full flight