Red Ransom’s influence for excellence was in typhonic proportions in late February and in being so has endorsed the judgement of the Vinery Stud, Segenhoe Valley, Scone management in choosing one of his Group 1 winning sons, Onemorenomore, to fill the void left in their stallion yards by his death last November.
On Saturday in particular, Red Ransom enjoyed a red letter day through his descendants with the chief banner waver being his awesome 4-year-old daughter Typhoon Tracy. Bred on Vinery for her owners, Gold Coast based Hutchins Bloodstock, the Peter Moody, Caulfield trained mare moved to nine wins from 12 appearances when she thumped her opponents in the small field that contested the Group1 Futurity (1600m) on the home track. It was her third Group 1 win in successive outings.
Via the success, Typhoon Tracy embellished the credentials of Onemorenomore, a lightly raced winner of the AJC Champagne Stakes, T.L. Baillieu Handicap, second in the MRC Norman Robinson Stakes, third in the AJC George Main Stakes, Breeders’ Plate, STC Silver and fourth in the AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes and Up and Coming Stakes, in more ways than one. They are both by Red Ransom and out of mares by Last Tycoon, a sire who had a short stint at Vinery when it was known as Segenhoe. Segenhoe Breeding Venture bred Tracy’s Element, the dam of Typhoon Tracy.
A son of world class sire Roberto and a Damascus mare and an outcross for Danehill, Danzig and Northern Dancer, Red Ransom also made a big contribution on Saturday to the breeding of two juvenile stakes winners, but in different directions. He is the sire Rouge Femme, the dam of the bargain Classic sale yearling Chance Bye, a first crop colt by Snitzel who kept up his unbeaten record with a dominating win in the $200,000 Silver Slipper at Rosehill Gardens, and of Charge Forward, the sire of second crop runner Shrapnel, the winner at Adelaide’s Morphettville of the $100,000 Breeders’ Stakes. Both Snitzel, a Redoute’s Choice Oakleigh Plate and Challenge Stakes winner, and Charge Forward, annexer of the Galaxy and San Domenico and a short neck second in the Golden Slipper, are at Arrowfield, a short drive away from Vinery.
Shrapnel, a colt bred by Ron Gilbert’s Highgrove Stud, Darling Downs and raced by him with Arrowfield Pastoral and Blue Sky Thoroughbreds, is from Fragmentation, a daughter of Snippets, the sire also of the dam of Snitzel.
The Snippets influence could also do well in the future with Vinery’s new acquisition Onemorenomore. He was to have stood at his racing owner Nathan Tinkler’s nearby Patinack Farm, but keen to have Red Ransom in their sire complex, Vinery have acquired controlling interest.
Charge Forward, a sire whose oldest are three, is one of two promising young Red Ransom sires in NSW, firing. Represented by first crop 2-year-olds, the other is Domesday, a winner of the Silver Slipper and a Golden Slipper fifth standing on a low fee at Darley, Cootamundra.
Domesday had four metropolitan runners in late February suggest he has the potential to be a good sire. They were Pressday (followed up two dashing trial wins at Rosehill Gardens with a 1.8 lengths debut win on Randwick’s Kensington circuit on Friday), Giresun (debut winner Warwick Farm February 17), Backgammon (came back from a win at Flemington on December 19 to be fourth at Rosehill Gardens on February 20 at his second start) and Divorces (followed a nose debut second at Rosehill Gardens on October 31 with a luckless fourth in Saturday’s Silver Slipper – missed the start and well back for most of the trip).
Two other Australian bred Red Ransom sires who have met with success recently have been Markane (a three-quarter brother to Onemorenomore standing at Eureka stud, Cambooya, Qld) and Face Value (Lindsay Park, Angaston, Vic). Eureka is also home for Red Dazzler, a Red Ransom high class Australian 1600m performer whose oldest are yearlings. He has 22 lots booked into the Queensland breeders yearling sale at the Gold Coast on March 21 and 22. Also in the catalogue are 19 by Markane and two by Charge Forward.
