Black Type Quinella for Freshman Star Turn

Vinery Stud’s emerging young stallion Star Turn (Star Witness-Golden Delicious, by Made of Gold) emphasised again on Saturday at Eagle Farm in Brisbane that, while he is the current second leading Freshman Sire in Australia, he’s about far more than pure numbers. Indeed, the multiple Group 1-placed sprinter is able to boast 8 individual seasonal winners (12 wins) with half that number having either won or placed at black-type level. In a harbinger of what could lie ahead for Star Turn and his progeny, the Listed Dalrello Stakes (1000m) became a one-act affair when his 2YO daughters Miss Hipstar (Star Turn-Single Style, by Not A Single Doubt) and Stellar Magic (Star Turn-Al’s Magic Miss, by Magic Albert) filled the first two placings ahead of highly regarded Group-placed filly Ashema (I A Invincible). A stakes-winning 2YO with exceptional weight-for-age form as a 3YO, Star Turn – he is also sire of RL Inglis Millennium third Pegasi and Gr3 Breeders’ Plate-placed Astrologer – will stand the 2021 breeding season at a very attractive $16,500 on a live-foal basis.