Champion Vino Rosso Sires First Foal

Spendthrift Farm stallion Vino Rosso, 2019’s US Champion Older Male and Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) hero, has sired his first reported foal at Jim & Pam Robinson’s Brandywine Farm in Paris, Ky. “I tell you what, you could not ask for a better foal. She is just beautiful and very smart. Physically, she is a strong filly with good bone. I cannot say enough positive things about her,” said Pam Robinson. “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…” Campaigned by Repole Stable & St. Elias Stable, Vino Rosso was undefeated as a 2YO before going on to capture a major Kentucky Derby prep race – the Wood Memorial (G2) – at three. The multiple Grade 1-winning son of Curlin also won the Gold Cup at Santa Anita (G1) at four. He retired to Spendthrift after his Breeders’ Cup Classic triumph with earnings of $4,803,125, making him Curlin’s all-time leading earner to date Vino Rosso is out of the multiple stakes-producing Street Cry (Ire) mare Mythical Bride, a half-sister to Belmont S. (G1) runner-up & Grade 2 winner Commissioner, and Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) runner-up & Grade 3 winner Laugh Track. He will stand the northern hemisphere season in 2021 for a fee of $25,000 S&N.

Breeders' Cup hero Vino Rosso (pic: spendthrift.com.au)