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Scone Yearlings Compete With The Best

2nd May 2006

Results are what count and with past graduates like last Saturday’s Group 1 Australasian Oaks runner-up Zenarta, the Inglis Scone Yearling Sale has a lot to shout about.

The Orpen filly cost connections just $6,000 at Scone in 2004 and was also in the money at the Sydney Autumn Carnival, with her gallant third-place run to Belmonte in the Listed AJC Carbine Club Stakes.

Legendary Man is another Scone graduate to fly high in recent weeks, running out an emphatic winner of the Listed QTC Members Handicap at Eagle Farm at the end of April.

Also costing $6,000, the Shovhog gelding won the 2004 Inglis Scone Challenge, a race subsequently contested by the colt Ready As, a $16,000 Scone 2004 purchase, who ran second in the 1300 metre contest the following year, before finishing runner-up in the Group 1 QTC The T.J Smith Stakes. While gracing the same catalogued was this year’s Group 1 Rosehill Guineas runner-up Oh Oklahoma.

The $200,000 race is the highlight of the Scone Cup day undercard and is open only to those eligible graduates of the previous year’s Inglis Scone Yearling Sale. The current order of entry is headed up by Throne Inn.

As well as the older performers two of last year’s catalogue made the line-up in this year’s Golden Slipper, namely One Time and Boom Time Savings.

The former, a runner-up in the Listed Black Opal Stakes, is missing from the 2006 Inglis Scone Challenge, but still boasts a Scone connection with his full-brother catalogued as lot 70 in the yearling sale.

Run in conjunction with the Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, the Inglis Scone Yearling Sale boasts a reputation as the continent’s most successful country thoroughbred auction and provides a fitting finale to the two-week Scone Horse Festival.

This year’s auction, the 62nd renewal, takes place at White Park on Sunday May 21 and features a 200-lot catalogue. A good proportion of Australia’s leading sires are represented, while many of the regions top thoroughbred nurseries send good drafts.

Numerous leading trainers attend the Scone Cup meeting and quite a few of them stay on to see what talent the yearling sale has to offer. Among those on the buyers sheet last year were Neville Begg, Kris Lees, Paul Perry and Barbara Joseph.

All yearlings sold at the 2006 Scone Yearling Sale will be eligible to compete in next year’s $200,000 Inglis Challenge Race.

The catalogue is out now. For more information click here or contact Inglis’s Sydney office: (02) 9399 7999.