Champion Vino Rosso Represented by First Foal

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Spendthrift Farm’s Vino Rosso (Curlin–Mythical Bride, by Street Cry {Ire}), the champion older dirt male and winner of the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic in 2019, was represented by his first foal Jan. 5 when the 6-year-old mare Shine Time (Malibu Moon) produced a filly at Jim and Pam Robinson’s Brandywine Farm in Paris, Kentucky.

The chestnut is the second foal from her dam, a half-sister to GSW Royal Mo (Uncle Mo) and SW Tara From the Cape (Leroidesanimaux {Brz}) and counts the outstanding multiple graded stakes-winning turf distaffer Irish Linnet (Seattle Song) as her third dam. Shine Time’s first foal is a colt by Curlin’s son Connect.

“I tell you what, you could not ask for a better foal. She is just beautiful and very smart,” Pam Robinson said. “Physically, she is a strong filly with good bone. I cannot say enough positive things about her. In 46 years of breeding, we have never sent three mares to a first-year stallion before, but we did to Vino Rosso last year. I think that tells you how much we think of the stallion, and we are sending a couple back to him this year.”

Campaigned by Repole Stable and St Elias Stable, Vino Rosso–a $410,000 Keeneland September yearling–was undefeated in a pair of starts at two, and won the GII Wood Memorial S. as a sophomore while finishing a close fourth behind Triple Crown winner Justify (Scat Daddy) in the GI Belmont S. and a running-on third in the GII Jim Dandy S. An impressive winner of the GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita in May 2019, Vino Rosso was controversially disqualified from an apparent win in the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup before tearing away to best ‘TDN Rising Star’ McKinzie (Street Sense) by a resounding 4 1/4 lengths in the Classic.

Vino Rosso is standing the 2021 breeding season for a fee of $25,000, stands and nurses terms.

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