Vinery champion More Than Ready brought up a three year-old treble in three days when War won the G3 Up And Coming Stakes at Warwick Farm on Saturday.

War (3c More Than Ready – Deedra by Zabeel) was runner-up to stablemate Whittington in the G3 Breeders’ Plate last October but disappointed first-up after a 10 month spell at the Canterbury midweek meeting on August 7.

“He’s a very good horse in the making,” trainer Gai Waterhouse said.  “I’ve got him to relax since Canterbury and he’s come on in leaps and bounds.

“He was allowed to dictate today.  Tommy (Berry) stacked them up and I liked the way he came away in the straight.”

WAR is a three-quarter brother to Gai’s champion mare More Joyous and was a $500,000 buy at the 2012 Inglis Easter Sale.  He is raced by a syndicate headed by Coolmore Stud’s Susan Magnier.

“Gai and Nash (Rawiller) have always had a big opinion of this horse,” Berry claimed.  “He’s still learning but travelled well today and the key is not to fight him.”

MORE THAN AMEIRA began the More Than Ready treble in a Sale maiden on Thursday.  She is trained by Pat Carey and cost $100,000 at the 2012 Inglis Easter Sale.

More Than Ameira (3f More Than Ready – Afraah by Danehill) came from the clouds to win by a nose over 1728m.  She can keep progressing towards the Thousand Guineas and Victorian Oaks.

Carey is a past-master a developing stayers on the beach at Mornington.  His Sale winner is from Afraah who won 6 races up to 2000m including the G3 Frank Packer Plate at Randwick.

OCEANUS claimed the middle leg of the blueblood treble at Geelong on Friday.  He started a short-priced favourite on debut but looked a long-shot turning for home.

Oceanus (3c More Than Ready – Oceanfast by Monde Bleu) was under the pump and going nowhere until Danny Moor switched him back to the fence.  There were no world-beaters among the leading division but he picked them up like a horse who has inherited plenty of the family’s ability.

The Anthony Freedman trained colt is a half-brother to champion filly Alinghi who was trained Freedman’s brother Lee.  “He still very raw,” Moor said.  “There’s plenty of upside to him and I was very pleased with the win.”

Freedman educated Oceanus after a leg injury forced his withdrawal from the 2012 Inglis Easter Sale.  The colt showed enough for Freedman to syndicate him among stable clients including Australian Bloodstock’s Luke Murrell and breeder Arthur Mitchell of Yarraman Park.

More Than Ready will stand for a $99,000 (inc gst) service fee at Vinery this year.

– Karl Patterson