Vintage Tipple is a bay mare with a small white star bred in Ireland by Edmund Loder at the family's Eyresfield Stud near the Curragh in County Kildare.
After being restrained at the rear of the field she made rapid progress in the straight, took the lead a furlong from the finish, and drew clear to win by three lengths from the Jim Bolger-trained Solas Mo Chroi.
[7] Vintage Tipple was ridden by Jamie Spencer when she began her second season in the Group 3 Athasi Stakes over seven furlongs at the Curragh.
The outsider L'Ancresse set the pace with Vintage Tipple, ridden by Frankie Dettori tracking the leaders and turning into the straight in fifth place.
She made steady progress in the last quarter mile, overtook L'Ancresse inside the final furlong and won by one and a half lengths with Casual Look a head away in third and Yesterday in fourth place.
[10] On 6 September Vintage Tipple was matched against male opposition in the Irish Champion Stakes over ten furlongs at Leopardstown.