VINASTA TAKES OUT THE GYMPIE MUSTER CUP FOR THE COREY AND KYLIE GERAN STABLE

By Graham Potter | Saturday, August 20, 2022

The seven-year-old mare Vinasta put a Cup win on the Corey and Kylie Geran training partnership’s resume when she proved too strong for her opposition in the Gympie Muster Cup, an Open Handicap contested over 1470m.

The daughter of I Am Invincible jumped as the $2.70 joint favourite with Dare To Share, who would never seriously get into the race, and she was up for the fight right from the break, joining in the hectic chase to the first turn and then going on with it from there.

Emily Lang had Vinasta in a close-up fifth place leaving that turn, but then she quickly took the Geran trained runner up to fourth, then third, then second by the time the field had reached the 800m mark.

Vinasta then held station for about 200m but, going through the 600m mark, Lang, who obviously knew how well Vinasta was travelling and how she enjoyed free-rolling, decided she had spent enough time behind the early leader, the $5.50 chance San Pierre, and she set Vanasta alight.

Within a matter of strides Vinasta was two lengths clear of San Pierre. Lexington Lad ($6), who was a further length back, was the only other runner remotely in touch with the new leader with the field well and truly strung out behind that … and Vinasta continued to extend her lead, seemingly with relish, as she took the field to the home turn where she straightened with a clearcut four length advantage.

Vinasta would now have been entitled to come back to her field after her strong gallop up to this stage, but she never blinked, maintaining her effort all of the way down the home straight.

Capodanno ($5.50) was the only runner to emerge from out of the pack with a challenge, and the chestnut was rattling home late, but Vinasta always had the race safely within her keeping and her final winning margin was a comfortable 1.50 lengths.

Putting the run in further perspective is the fact that the two runners, San Pierre and Lexington Lad, who tried to match Vinasta in the first half of the race … both faded out to finish 12.50 and 21.40 lengths back respectively.

This was Vinasta’s twenty-first start for the Geran stable and her return of five wins, six seconds, three thirds and two fourth places over that period underlines both the mare’s consistency and just what a good job the stable is doing in placing the mare where she can race at such a competitive level.

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