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Flying Spur's versatile daughter Vintedge put up her best performance to win the G2 $300 Matriarch Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.
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Vintedge is Flying Spur's fourth Australian stakeswinner this season, joining 3YO fillies Bliss Street, Gliding and Satin Shoes.
Trained by Chris Waller for a group of owners headed by Vintedge's breeder Robert Heyblok, the 6YO mare backed up after her photo finish second at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day.
“She has been a great horse for me and she has been with us for a long time,” said trainer Chris Waller.
Consistency has been Vintedge's hallmark as she has won or placed in 22 of her 37 starts across five seasons.
Her earnings stand just short of $600,000.
Unplaced in her only start at two, she blossomed at three, winning four of her 12 starts but didn't gain black type until last spring she won the Newcastle Tibbie Stakes after two stakes placings.
This year she has extended her range beyond 1600 metres, adding two stakes placings at 1900m and 2000m in the autumn, but the Matriarch was both her first win at 2000m and her first attempt in Group 2 company.
Vintedge is a half-sister to stakeswinner Youths Edge from the Rory's Jester mare Alternative Edge, a winning sister to G1 Racer's Edge.
All descend from the outstanding racemare How Now.
Alternative Edge has a yearling colt by Flying Spur and is foaling again to Arrowfield's champion sire of 84 stakeswinners.