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ONEMORE CROP OF RED RANSOM YEARLINGS

IMG0171WEB Onemore then nomore crops of Red Ransom.

2 December 2011 |

THERE is a sad irony behind this portrait of young stallion Onemorenomore above the grave of his sire, Red Ransom, taken at Vinery Stud during the week.

And that is, owing to the untimely death of Red Ransom in the summer of 2009, there is just the one last crop of yearlings by the stallion...and no more after that.

One more - no more.

As well as this being his final crop (due for sale in 2012), Red Ransom's passing at the height of the 2009 breeding season meant that he could not service his full book of mares.

As a result, only 41 live foals were produced that season.

Of those, only 22 are being offered to the public at the major yearling sales next year - Gold Coast (Magic Millions - 7 ), Karaka (New Zealand Premier - 3) and Newmarket (Easter - 12).

Red Ransom was more than just a stallion for Vinery, he was the rock on which the house was built.

 

''In essence, Red Ransom was the beginning of Vinery in Australia,'' the Stud's general manager Peter Orton said.

''He was the horse that started the whole show and was our true foundation stallion.''

Red Ransom arrived in Australia at the beginning of the 1999 breeding season.

At the time, he represented a serious coup for the wider industry given his mantle as the Champion Turf Sire back home in the USA.

''Red Ransom was an older horse when he came here and his American (shareholders) were fairly strict with the amount mares he could cover - he was only allowed to cover 70 mares in his first season,'' Orton explained.

Yet from that small crop - Red Ransom had three runners in the Golden Slipper from that first crop.

Apart from his 27 Australasian stakeswinners, Red Ransom's most important legacy is as an outcross, perhaps 'the' outcross to take us into the next decade.

''Danehill came here as an outcross,' Orton says,''the Danzig blood was a very successful outcross and in the period of years that passed he became the dominant sire-line throughout Australia. And so our aim was to search for an outcross to mix with what was potentially going to be the major broodmare sire-line.''

And that horse was Red Ransom.

Strangely, for a stallion who has sired more like 100 individual stakeswinners around the world, Red Ransom has only one Group 1 winning 2YO among the centurion.

Onemorenomore - who strode away to beat Manhattan Rain and Tickets by 4-lens in the AJC Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick in the autumn of 2009.

Onemorenomore is one of 13 sons of Red Ransom at stud in Australia and arguably the most genetically blessed among a very handsome bunch of thoroughbreds.

''He is a particularly good looking horse and obviously had talent and has got a fantastic pedigree,'' Orton said.

''When you are putting a lot of resources into a stallion like we are with Onemorenomore, you want to know that he has the best pedigree, race performance, confirmation and by a sire making sire line, and Onemorenomore really fulfills all those criteria.''

 

Onenmorenomore was bred by boutique Scone nursery Cressfield and sold at Easter for $800,000.

Cressfield are offering Onemorenomore's full-brother at Newmarket in 2012 and have thrown their considerable weight behind the Vinery Stallion ensuring he gets the start required to carry on his father's extraordinary success.

''Initially (our support) was because we liked the family,'' Cressfield's manager Wayne Beddgood explained,''and after that it was because of his foals - they're big, they're strong which is what you are looking for in a first season and thirdly, he is actually a very fertile horse.

''So what we are doing now with our mares that have had issues or aren't conceiving to another stallion, we are switching them across to Onemorenomore and he gets them straight in foal.''

"At this point in time Onemorenomore is ticking all the boxes.''