VINERY Stud enjoyed some good results at Meydan on Dubai World Cup night. Their stallion Mossman sired the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint winner Buffering, Myboycharlie’s daughter Euro Charline was runner-up to Real Steel in the Group 1 Dubai Turf, while the Congrats filly Polar River was unlucky to lose her unbeaten record in the Group 2 UAE Derby.

The star of the show was Buffering who was winning his 20th race when taking the honours in the five-furlong feature. He is the best son of his sire who himself won at the highest level when he was victorious in the Queensland Classic.

At stud since 2000 Mossman has worked his way to prominence the hard way, with average foals crops of just 60. He is responsible for more than 30 stakes winners and five of these have won at Group 1 level. Buffering is the outstanding member of that quintet, and seven times he has triumphed at the top table.

The other four Group 1 winners are all fillies and they are the Golden Slipper winner Mossful, two heroines of the Coolmore Classic in Ofcourseican and Plucky Belle, and the New Zealand Oaks winner Miss Mossman.

European pedigree watchers will be very familiar with the pedigree of Buffering. He is the best of four winners from the Anabaa mare Action Annie, herself bred in Australia and a winner there. She is a daughter of the Moyglare mare Overdue Reaction who was at stud in the USA and Ireland before she went down under and had five winning offspring there. In the northern hemisphere she was responsible for the stakes-placed pair of Don’t Go Crazy in Germany and Instant Strike in the USA.

Overdue Reaction, a daughter of the Moyglare Stud-bred Be My Guest, never managed to win but seven of her siblings did. She was the second offspring of her dam Temporary Lull and the first was the Grade 2 winner Wait Till Monday.

The third foal from Temporary Lull was the listed flat winner Rare Holiday but he is better remembered for winning the Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham for Dermot Weld. That was back in 1990.

Wait Till Monday and Rare Holiday were joined as stakes winners by another sibling, Token Gesture, and she won the C L Weld Park Stakes at two and bred a Grade 1 winner in Relaxed Gesture, the 2005 Pattison Canadian International Stakes winner.

Winning at the highest level is nothing strange to this family and mention must be made of another daughter of Temporary Lull. This was Monumental Gesture, a daughter of Head For Heights who won on the flat and over hurdles and bred two winners from 10 foals. While that looks a poor enough return, the pair of winners was none other than Rhinestone Cowboy and Wichita Lineman, sons of Be My Native and King’s Theatre respectively. They were both Grade 1 winners under National Hunt rules.

Buffering is an outstanding runner from this family but a distant cousin of his was also a top-class performer in Australia. Intergaze won 12 races and two-thirds of these were at Group 1 level. He won them between 1996 and 2000 and they included the Australian Cup, the Doomben Cup, the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes twice and the Underwood Stakes.