Vintage Tipple

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Vintage Tipple
Sire Entrepreneur
Grandsire Sadler's Wells
DamOverruled
Damsire Last Tycoon
Sex Mare
Foaled17 January 2000 [1]
CountryIreland
Colour Bay
Breeder Edmund Loder
OwnerPatrick J O'Donovan
Trainer Paddy Mullins
Record6: 3-1-0
Major wins
Irish Oaks (2003)
Honours
Vintage Tipple Stakes at Gowran Park Racecourse

Vintage Tipple (foaled 17 January 2000) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. She showed considerable promise as a two-year-old in 2002 when she won both of her races by clear margins. In the following spring she finished second in the Athasi Stakes and then returned from a lengthy absence to record her biggest win when she defeated a strong field to win the Irish Oaks. She was well beaten in her last two races and was retired from racing at the end of the season. As a broodmare she has produced several minor winners.

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Background

Vintage Tipple is a bay mare with a small white star bred in Ireland by Edmund Loder at the family's Eyresfield Stud near the Curragh in County Kildare. In February 2002 the two-year-old filly was put up for auction at Goffs and was sold for €16,500. [2] She entered the ownership of Patrick J O'Donovan and was sent into training with the veteran Paddy Mullins at Goresbridge, County Kilkenny.

She was one of the best horses sired by Entrepreneur who won the 2000 Guineas in 1997. He was not a success as a breeding stallion and was exported to Japan in 2002. [3] Her dam Overruled showed some racing ability, winning minor races at Doncaster in 1995 and Chepstow in 1996. [4] Her dam Overcall was a granddaughter of Melodramatic, whose other descendants have included Vintage Crop. [5]

Racing career

2002: two-year-old season

Vintage Tipple was ridden in both of her races as a two-year-old by Johnny Murtagh. She made her racecourse debut in a maiden race over one mile at Tralee Racecourse on 27 August and started at odds of 11/2 in a seventeen-runner field. After being restrained at the rear of the field she made rapid progress in the straight, took the lead a furlong from the finish, and drew clear to win by three lengths from the Jim Bolger-trained Solas Mo Chroi. [6] On 14 September the filly was dropped in distance for a minor stakes race over seven furlongs at the Curragh and started 5/4 favourite against five opponents. She started slowly but took the lead a furlong out and accelerated away from her rivals to win by four lengths in "impressive" style. [7]

2003: three-year-old season

Vintage Tipple was ridden by Jamie Spencer when she began her second season in the Group 3 Athasi Stakes over seven furlongs at the Curragh. Starting at odds of 5/2 she kept on well in the closing stages to finish second, two lengths behind the Round Tower Stakes-winner Walayef. After the race she was found to have sustained a hairline fracture to her cannon bone. [8]

The filly was off the track for two and a half months before being moved up in class and distance for the Irish Oaks over one and a half miles at the Curragh on 13 July. The eleven-runner field appeared to be a strong one with Yesterday starting favourite ahead of Spanish Sun (Ribblesdale Stakes), Ocean Silk (Lupe Stakes), Casual Look, and Snippets (Noblesse Stakes), with Vintage Tipple next in the betting on 12/1 alongside Hanami (Pretty Polly Stakes). The outsider L'Ancresse set the pace with Vintage Tipple, ridden by Frankie Dettori tracking the leaders and turning into the straight in fifth place. She made steady progress in the last quarter mile, overtook L'Ancresse inside the final furlong and won by one and a half lengths with Casual Look a head away in third and Yesterday in fourth place. [9] After the race Dettori said "the further she went, the stronger she got. When I turned round a furlong out I couldn't believe we would win so easily". [8] Her 84-year old trainer commented "she's a very good filly", the trainer said. "She just had the one hiccough, but she came through it well. If she stays lucky, the sky's the limit for her". [10]

On 6 September Vintage Tipple was matched against male opposition in the Irish Champion Stakes over ten furlongs at Leopardstown. Ridden by Pat Smullen she never looked likely to win and finished last of the seven runners, more than thirty lengths behind the winner High Chaparral. On her final start she was dropped back to Listed class for the Finale Stakes at the Curragh in October, but failed to reproduce her summer form and finished sixth of the eleven runners behind L'Ancresse.

Breeding record

After her retirement from racing Vintage Tipple became a broodmare for her owner Pat O'Donovan. She has produced at least nine foals and four winners:

Pedigree

Pedigree of Vintage Tipple (IRE), bay mare, 2000 [1]
Sire
Entrepreneur (GB)
1994
Sadler's Wells (USA)
1981
Northern Dancer Nearctic
Natalma
Fairy Bridge Bold Reason
Special
Exclusive Order (USA)
1979
Exclusive Native Raise a Native
Exclusive
BonavistaDead Ahead
Ribotina
Dam
Overruled (IRE)
1993
Last Tycoon (IRE)
1983
Try My Best Northern Dancer
Sex Appeal
Mill Princess Mill Reef
Irish Lass
Overcall (GB)
1984
Bustino Busted
Ship Yard
MelodramaticTudor Melody
Irish Flight (Family 14-c) [5]

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