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Well-related Our Playboy wins Vain Stakes.
Having landed his two final starts as a two-year-old, Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Our Playboy (3 c ex Mischief Night by Shamardal) picked up where he left off when he landed the Vain Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday and in the process became the 61st stakes winner for late Widden Stud-based sire Sebring (More Than Ready).
The three-year-old colt stayed on well to beat Ranting (Zoustar) by a length with another length and a quarter back to Rulership (I Am Invincible) in third.
"(My) main objective was to get him to relax. I wasn't too worried about being wide," said winning jockey Ben Melham.
"I was a bit concerned that he didn't have cover but I didn't bustle him and I just kept him in a rhythm.
"He's got a really effective turn of foot as he displayed there. (He) put a good bunch of colts away today and he's heading in the right direction."
Purchased by his trainer for $210,000 at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, the colt is out of the unraced Shamardal (Giant's Causeway) mare Mischief Night who was bought for $200,000 by Hollymount Stud at last year's Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale.
Mischief Night herself is out of Millie Fox Stakes (Gr 3 1300m) winner November Flight (Flying Spur), making her a half-sister to All Aged Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) winner and now Aquis Farm stallion Pierata (Pierro), Group 3 scorer Ashokan (More Than Ready) and recent winner Jet Propulsion (Rubick) a $900,000 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale graduate, who broke his maiden at Newcastle on Thursday.
Further afield, this is the same family as Listed-winning duo Crozier (Godswalk) and Fully Funded (Fully Fledged).
Mischief Night's 2018 Your Song (Fastnet Rock) colt was purchased by D M G M Racing for $20,000 at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale and she produced a colt by Pierro (Lonhro) the following year, before being covered by Newgate Farm-based sire Capitalist (Written Tycoon).
Sebring's progeny is headed by six Group 1 winners, including multiple Group 1 winners Dissident and Criterion.
