Celebrity Miss became the 129^th Stakes winner for More Than Ready when she won the Bolton Sprint over 1200 metres at Belmont in Perth.

She extended her strike rate to eight wins from 17 starts, and increased her stake earnings to $238,000, and increased her stud value considerably now with Black Type alongside her name.

Celebrity Miss is out of the Marscay mare Miss Margaret, she has proved a good dual purpose mare winning eight races herself and producing six winning foals from eight to race.

Bob Peters, and his wife Sandra, have supported More Than Ready numerous times; you could say the son of Southern Halo has been kind to them.

Miss Margaret, now 21, has produced 11 foals, she has called it quits and leaving it now to those that will follow.

Idle Chat’s success in the Sir James Kirby Quality, at Grafton yesterday, was the third leg of a winning treble for More Than Ready, following on from the success of, Wonderbolt at Rosehill, and Celebrity Miss’s win at Belmont W A.

More Than Ready’s record for the season stands at 141 winners, his progeny earnings in both hemispheres stands at $6,833,560.

Among the rewarding factor around More Than Ready is his Golden Slipper winning son, Sebring, who has had a sensational start to his stud career, with a Derby winner from his first crop to race.

More Than Ready is well into the big league as the most successful sire to shuttle direct from the United States to Australia

More Than Ready - Multi Million Dollar Sire.

A spate of winners by Vinery based sires over the past week focuses attention on the leading breeding farm in the Hunter Valley.

Vinery’s premier sire, More Than Ready, got the ball rolling siring Sugar Rush; she recorded her fourth win at Randwick last week.

She is from the New Zealand bred mare Sugar Babe, by Exceed and Excel, the first foal of her dam to race.

Testa Rossa could be likened to a good beverage, he just continues pressing on, with a running double at Morphettville this is evidence of the type of horses he gets when they find form and retain it, he has always proved a popular sire in the sale ring.

Excites is really beginning to fire up, his winner at Randwick last week, Black Jag, out of the Chris Waller yard, scored an impressive win taking out the McGrath Estate Agents race by 6 lengths.

It was action again for Excites when the more than handy filly, Parraay, put paid to her opposition at Canterbury, while the margin may have been slender the win was impressive, she is the only foal from her dam to race.

More Than Ready and Excites were among the winning sires again yesterday, this time at Rosehill.

Mossman was not left out either when siring Hopfgarten, who took out the Sunshine Coast Guineas for trainer, Robert Heathcote.

Excites is exciting

Vinery based sires were prominent over the week-end siring winners in four separate states.

Myboycharlie and Excites were turning it on at Rosehill Gardens with the respective winners Downtown Charlie and Scream Machine, Casino Prince continued his run of success when Diavel saluted at Moe.

More Than Ready is never far away from a winner, bobbing up at Belmont, in Perth, when inform mare, Celebrity Miss, gave her rivals a galloping lesson over 1200 metres, starting favourite at $2.70.

Few sires have entered the stud scene with a more imposing record than Congrats, who shaping up for his fourth season at Vinery, a leading stud in the Hunter Valley.

However, he is no stranger in the U S where his progeny are proving a revelation when he recorded a winning double with Tulira’s Star, opening her winning account at Arlington Park, and Flying Frank zipping over 700 metres in 40.80s at Canterbury Park.

Congrats is a well established sire in the United States, he went to stud in 2007, his progeny hit the blocks running with 26 individual winners from that first crop, an amazing performance seldom seen by a sire in any part of the world.

His progeny are displaying a great speed influence, obviously through his dam, Praise, by Mr Prospector who has proved a source of early maturity.

This is a winning dam line, in fact nearly perfect, Praise, the dam of Congrats, left six winners from seven foals to race while his grand dam, Wild Applause by Northern Dancer, was a marvel in her own right leaving 10 winners from 11 foals to race.

Congrats, by A P Indy, commenced his stud career in Florida before moving on to Vinery’s base in Kentucky, is a proven sire in the United States where he has sired 33 Stakes winners with a high percentage rate of winners to starters of 73 per cent.

His rising two year olds will be given every chance with leading trainers, David Payne, David Hayes and John Hawkes, all purchased nice yearlings by Congrats, and their presence will be awaited with interest.

Congrats byA P Indy at Vinery