Vinery Australia

Congrats Recovering After Colic Surgery

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• January 2, 2015
• Breeding, Kentucky

Congrats, A.P. Indy's only champion freshman sire, is recovering in good order following December colic surgery in Australia, where he was wrapping up his shuttling obligations at Vinery Australia.

Big Brown's New Home in New York Announced

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• November 13, 2014
• Breeding, Northeast Region

Big Brown, who ranks seventh among North America's leading third-crop sires and has nine stakes winners this year, will stand for $8,500 at Dutchess Views Farm near Pine Plains, N.Y., in 2015.

Big Brown to Stand 2015 Season in New York

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• November 5, 2014
• Breeding, Northeast Region

Big Brown, champion 3-year-old of 2008 when he won the first two legs of the Triple Crown and a leading third-crop sire, will stand the 2015 season in New York.

Big Brown Colt Tops Magic Millions 2YO Sale

• By Myra Lewyn
• September 30, 2014
• International, Sales, Kentucky

A colt by U.S. champion and Central Kentucky sire Big Brown sold in Australia for the highest price at the Magic Millions Gold Coast 2-year-olds in training sale Sept. 30.

Secret Heart, Dam of Pluck, Dies

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• July 7, 2014
• Breeding, International, Kentucky

Team Valor International reported that Secret Heart, the dam of 2010 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT) winner Pluck, died July 5 at Denali Stud near Paris, Ky.

Buffering Breaks Through in Manikato Thriller

• By Myra Lewyn
• October 25, 2013
• Racing, International

Placed 10 times previously at the group I level, Queensland sprinter Buffering finally earned an elusive victory in a white-knuckle finish of the $1 million (US$959,557) Manikato Stakes (Aus-I) Oct. 25 at Moonee Valley.

Australian Group Winner All Too Hard Retires

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• May 6, 2013
• Breeding, International

All Too Hard, a 3-year-old half brother to undefeated Black Caviar, has retired. He was sold in December 2012 to a syndicate led by Vinery Stud; he will stand at Vinery Australia for the 2013 breeding season.

Big Brown Won't Be Shuttling to Australia

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• July 22, 2012
• Breeding, International, Kentucky

Eclipse Award winner Big Brown, who stands at Robert N. Clay's Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky., will not be returning to Australia for the upcoming 2012 Southern Hemisphere breeding season after injuring a hind leg.

More Than Ready Sires 100th Stakes Winner

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• May 13, 2012
• Breeding, International, Kentucky

More Than Ready, a premier shuttle stallion, has joined his sire in the century club. The son of Southern Halo also has sired three Breeders' Cup winners.

Pluck to Stand at Vinery Australia

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• May 11, 2012
• Breeding, International

Vinery Australia announced May 11 that it has added the brilliant 2010 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT) winner Pluck to its stallion roster for the 2012 breeding season.

Vinery Australia Buys Interest in Pluck

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• December 14, 2010
• Racing, Breeding, Kentucky

A partnership headed by Tom Simon's Vinery Australia has purchased a 45% interest in this year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (gr. IIT) winner Pluck.

More Than Ready Tops Vinery Australia Roster

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• April 27, 2010
• Breeding, International, Kentucky

More Than Ready, who has sired 69 stakes winners, once again will shuttle to Tom Simon's Vinery Australia near Scone, New South Wales

More Than Ready's Fee Jumps

• By Ric Chapman
• May 5, 2008
• News, Breeding

More Than Ready, who figures to top this season's Australian 2-year-old sires list, has had his stud fee bumped to $110,000 (approximately $103,000 in U.S. funds) for this year's Australian bookings.

More Than Ready, Red Ransom Shuttling to Vinery Australia

• May 18, 2006
• News, Breeding

More Than Ready and Red Ransom will shuttle to Vinery Australia, where they will stand for A$55,000

Partners to 'Rent' Vinery's Australian Property

• By Ric Chapman
• June 27, 2005
• News, Breeding, International

One of the richest men in Australia, Gerry Harvey, has agreed to link up with Vinery's Tom Simon and use Vinery Stud in the Hunter Valley.

Graded Winner Dubleo to Retire to Vinery Australia

• May 13, 2005
• News, Breeding

Dubleo, one of the top 2-year-old grass runners of 2004, will enter stud at Vinery Australia in Scone.

Success Express to Vinery in Australia

• July 7, 2004
• News, Breeding

Prominent Australia sire Success Express, best remembered in North America as the winner of the 1987 Breeders' Cup Juvenile (gr. I), has been relocated to Vinery in New South Wales in Australia.

Twining to Shadai in Japan

• October 29, 2003
• News, Breeding

Tom Simon's Vinery announced that successful stallion Twining will not return to the Lexington farm following the conclusion of his current stallion duties at Vinery Australia, and instead will shuttle to the Yoshida family's Shadai Stallion Station in Japan for the 2004 breeding season.

Here and There

• April 9, 2003
• News, Handicapping

Colm Santry leaves Vinery Australia for Coolmore...BRISnet.com holds $40,000 handicapping contest.

Highland Farm on the Market; Hofmeister in Dispute With Classic

• By Kristin Ingwell Goode
• June 21, 2001
• News, Breeding

Four years after buying and building Highland Farm, near Paris, Ky., George and Kay Hofmeister have listed the Bourbon County estate for sale for $60 million. "We're going to scale way back, but we're not going to leave the industry," George Hofmeister said Thursday.

Day Two of Australian Easter Yearling Sale Soars

• By Blood-Horse Staff
• April 18, 2001
• News, Sales

The 2001 Australian Easter yearling sale burst into overdrive at Newmarket Wednesday evening with a sizzling session that had both buyers and vendors breaking out the champagne.