Written by Bren O'Brien
Each day of the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, TDN AusNZ will find a 'value buy', where an opportunity has been spotted - even in this hot sale market.
Vinery sticks with family connection
Vinery Stud is always on the look out for fillies which can add something to its substantial broodmare band long-term, and when the Pariah filly out of Group 1-winning filly Hollow Bullet (Tayasu Tsuyoshi {Jpn}) came up early on Day 3 at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, there was no hesitation for Bloodstock Manager Adam White putting up his hand.
Adam White
Vinery has already been involved in the ownership of two siblings of the filly, who was bred by Arrowfield and offered by Kulani Park, including the Group 1-placed Reloaded (Snitzel), and White felt the $200,000 Vinery paid for Lot 570 was very good shopping.
"We have a share in Reloaded, who we have had a lot of fun with. He's a Group 1-performed horse, who is a Group 3 winner. We also raced Sizzling Bullet for a while, so we know the family," he said.
"She holds a bit of residual there, being out of a Group 1 winner. We really like Pariah, we think he is going to get a kick along."
"She (Lot 570) holds a bit of residual there, being out of a Group 1 winner. We really like Pariah, we think he is going to get a kick along." - Adam White
Hollow Bullet also has the 3-year-old Silent Impact (Maurice {Jpn}) going well with three wins from six starts, while his 2-year-old sister, Aiming, who sold for $200,000 at this Sale last year, is now in work with Ciaron Maher and David Eustace.
While her dam was a G1 VRC Oaks winner who would also win what is now, the G1 Vinery Stud S., White feels this filly could be one that gets going relatively early, given her three-quarter brother was forward enough to win on debut as a 2-year-old and run third in a G1 JJ Atkins S.
Lot 570 - Pariah x Hollow Bullet (filly) | Image courtesy of Inglis
"I think she will go early enough. She is a mid-November foal, and she is fairly forward for a November foal. That's what we really liked about her. There's a bit more to come I think," he said.
"She might be a pre-Christmas type but Reloaded showed a bit as a 2-year-old and was placed in a Group 1."
"She (Lot 570) might be a pre-Christmas type but Reloaded showed a bit as a 2-year-old and was placed in a Group 1." - Adam White
Reloaded's best win came in the G1 Lord Mayor's Cup, but he was also placed in a G1 Rosehill Guineas through his career.
White said that the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Silent Impact, who was just run down late in the G2 Hobartville S., last time out, looks capable of adding more lustre to the page. That would only add to the residual value for Vinery.
"We're obviously a big farm with a good broodmare band and we are just looking for some new blood to come in," he said.
Reloaded | Image courtesy of Sportpix
"The partners behind the farm enjoy their racing, so they enjoy that. So to get horses that have that bit of residual to retire with after their racing journey and come into the broodmare band," White said.
White said a trainer for the Pariah filly would not be determined until after she is educated.
Pariah, whose oldest crop are 2-year-olds, has one winner and one stakes performer in his first crop to date. Hollow Bullet, now 20, did not have a foal last year and then visited Maurice.
The filly was the only yearling purchased by Vinery Stud through the Sale. As a vendor, it sold 11 yearlings for just short of $1.2 million.
