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Another Classic Guineas Success

16th Nov 2008

The Inglis Sydney Classic Sale’s affinity with Group 1 Guineas success continued in New Zealand yesterday when Tell A Tale scored a fast finishing win in the G1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas (1600m) at Riccarton.

TELL A TALE ($40,000 2007 Classic, 3g Tale Of The Cat-Cheeky Veronika) was originally offered for sale as a yearling by Edinglassie Stud and knocked down to Dermot Farrington.

Edinglassie have a great association with recent Guineas winners, with Caulfield Guineas heroes Wonderful World and God’s Own also graduates of the farm, with the latter, a colt by Redoute’s Choice, being a $220,000 Inglis Classic purchase for Bart Cummings in 2004.

Tell A Tale joins not only God’s Own, but also In Top Swing and this season’s excitement machine Whobegotyou as Group 1 winning Guineas graduates from the Inglis Classic Sale.

The gelding is now the winner of four races in just seven starts for earnings of $700,000.

He becomes the 21 st individual Inglis graduate to win a Group 1 race this calendar year, with the total haul now standing at 29 G1 races.

The New Zealand success was ably supported back home in Australia, with an Inglis stakes winning treble at the Sandown Classic meeting.

The day’s $350,000 Group 2 feature was taken out by ZIPPING ($190,000 2003 Easter, 7g Danehill-Social Scene), who became the first horse in 77 years to win consecutive runnings of this race.

Zipping ran a brave second in an all-Inglis Cox Plate trifecta before having no luck in the Melbourne Cup at his next outing.

The Sandown Classic (2400m) win takes his overall record to 12 wins and eight minor placings for earnings of $2.26million.

It was a good day for graduates of that 2003 sale, with fellow veteran CAPTAIN BAX (P$70,000 2003 Easter, 7g Snippets-Snow Finch) having earlier won the Listed Kevin Heffernan Stakes (1200m).

The Kris Lees trained gelding’s earnings are now closing in on $600,000, with this being his 10 th career victory.

The Peter Snowden trained filly YESTERDAY ($275,000 2007 Easter, 3f Red Ransom-Donna Cara) kick-started proceedings when taking the Listed Le Pine Funeral Services Stakes (1400m).

It was the first leg of a stakes winning treble for the Kerrin McEvoy-Sheikh Mohammed combination at the Sandown meeting.

Yesterday is the fifth individual stakes winner to emerge from Woodlands Stud’s purchases at the 2007 Easter Sale, joining Fravashi, Golden Slipper placegetter Portillo, runaway G1 Spring Champion Stakes winner Sousa and last week’s highly promising Listed winner Drumbeats.

Also adding to the Inglis stakes winning theme yesterday was talented mare ALVERTA (P$20,000 2005 Easter, 5m Flying Spur-Grilse), who added another important black type victory to her record when winning the Listed Brisbane Handicap (1600m) at Eagle Farm.

The next Inglis Sale is the Sydney Christmas Thoroughbred Sale, which includes an impressive list of supplementary entries, to be held at Newmarket on Friday December 5. It will be followed one week later by the Melbourne December Thoroughbred Sale at Oaklands on December 12.