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Vinery sire Casino Prince promises to be a big mover on the national sires rankings with a substantial crop of 2YOs ready to boost his already impressive results.

Casino Prince’s 2011 foal crop numbered 107, just one less than his first crop which was so dynamic that it propelled him to Champion First Season Sire honours over another Vinery resident Husson.

That same crop are now 5YOs and include eight individual stakes winners including G1 winners All Too Hard and Escado as well as Group 2 winners Star Rolling and Longport.

Casino Prince's first crop boasts a phenomenally high 73% winners to runners ratio with an overall (career) strike-rate of 60%.

Casino Prince's second crop (2010 foals) is led by Hooked, a G2 and G3 winner and G1 placed in the Australian Derby and Epsom Handicap.

Hooked, like champion All Too Hard, classic winner Escado, WFA campaigner Star Rolling, Vinery Stud Stakes placegetter Longport and others illustrate Casino Prince's capacity to sire high class horses in the 1600-2500m range.

Casino Prince's ability to sire such horses is in keeping with his own race record and pedigree.

The Anthony Cummings-trained galloper won the G1Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) and the G2 Alister Clark Stakes over 2040m at Moonee Valley.

He was also the hard luck story of the 2008 Doncaster Handicap, was beaten a nose in the G1 Australian Guineas as a 3YO and was also placed in the G1 Australian Cup and started favourite in the Golden Slipper.

His champion son All Too Hard, now standing at Vinery, is a half-brother to 3-time Horse of the Year Black Caviar and was Australia's Champion 3YO in Australia in 2012-13 when he won the G1 CF Orr Stakes, G1 Futurity and G1 Caulfield Guineas beating Pierro.

He was also second in the G1 WS Cox Plate, beaten narrowly by Ocean Park.

All Too Hard returned at four to defeat Fiorente and More Joyous in a star studded G1 All Aged Stakes at Randwick in what was to be his swansong before retiring to Vinery.