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Inglis Features At The Scone Horse Festival

11th May 2016

The Inglis Guineas, Inglis Challenge and Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale will feature brightly as part of the Scone Horse Festival that peaks this weekend with the Scone Cup Carnival.

The Scone Race Club will host two feature races of the Inglis Race Series where half a million dollars in prizemoney will be offered over two spectacular days of racing this Friday and Saturday, before the weekend is capped off by the HTBA Scone Yearling Sale on Sunday at White Park.

$100,000 Inglis Challenge – 1100m Race 3 – 1:35pm – Friday 13 May at Scone

The Inglis Challenge, open to two-year-olds that were offered at the Inglis HTBA Scone Yearling Sale and nominated to the Inglis Race Series, has attracted a field of 12 juveniles to Scone on Friday.

Headlining the field is Jenny Graham’s unbeaten prospect Miss Amajardan, which will line up against another two of Hinchinbrook’s progeny, Sweet Eagle and Lockout. Sweet Eagle’s trainer, David Vandyke was the inaugural winner of the Challenge in 2000, while Scone local Rod Northam is aiming for his fifth Inglis 2YO Challenge win in seven years with son of Moshe, Moshampagne.

The twelve starters were offered by twelve individual vendors, most of which are Hunter Valley-based operations represented by yearlings in the 2016 edition of the HTBA Scone Yearling Sale.

CLICK HERE to view the final fields for Scone Cup Day, Friday 13 May.

$400,000 Inglis Guineas (Restricted Listed) – 1400m Race 5 – 2:30pm – Saturday 14 May at Scone

Highlighting an exceptional day of racing on Saturday is the $400,000 RL Inglis Guineas, whose honour roll includes subsequent Group 1 victors Sincero and Cosmic Endeavour, while the 2015 winner Loved Up was sold for $300,000 at the recent Inglis Broodmare Sale.

The lucrative black-type race for three-year-olds has attracted some of Sydney’s leading trainers in Gai Waterhouse, Peter and Paul Snowden, and Anthony Cummings while Gerald Ryan’s Spill The Beans is hotly favoured being the highest-rated of the entries after a dominant win in last month’s Group 3 Hawkesbury Guineas. The colt will be hoping to go better than Chautauqua who could only manage fifth in the Inglis Guineas following his Hawkesbury triumph two years ago.

Serene Majesty enters the race following placings in the Hawkesbury Guineas and Listed ATC South Pacific Classic, while Kimberley Star will be out to collect her first stakes win following five previous placings at black-type level.

Going to bat for the locals are first and fourth in last year’s 2YO Inglis Challenge, Sargent Doakes and Professor Marx. The pair are trained on the track by Rod Northam, who leads the race for the $50,000 Trainer Bonus attached to the Inglis Race Series for 2015 sales graduates.

CLICK HERE to view the final fields for Scone Inglis Guineas Day, Saturday 14 May.

The winning trainer of each Inglis race at Scone will receive a pair of premium Swarovski Optiks valued at $3,000 as well as the winning jockey and winning managing owner of each Inglis Race receiving a luxury piece of Antler luggage with a total value of $544.

2016 Inglis HTBA Scone Yearling Sale Commencing 10:30am on Sunday 15 May at White Park, Scone

The 2016 HTBA Scone Yearling Sale catalogue features 206 Lots, highlighted by the siblings to two Blue Diamond Stakes winners.

The half-sister to this year’s winner Extreme Choice will be offered as Lot 83 from Bell River Thoroughbreds, while the half-brother to 2008 winner Reaan will be offered from the Arrowfield Stud draft as Lot 171.

Siblings to starters in the Inglis 2YO Challenge Our Girl Charlie and Hand it In will also be offered as Lot 22 and Lot 68 respectively.

Many leading stallions Exceed And Excel, Sebring, High Chaparral, I Am Invincible, Hinchinbrook, Medaglia d’Oro and Nicconi, are represented by yearlings offered by some of the most prolific thoroughbred nurseries.

Scone has been the happy hunting ground for many trainers, owners and syndicators in the past. Darby Racing’s stakes winners Look To The Stars and Time For War were both purchased from the sale, as was the Matt Dale trained Rom Baro before being sold to Hong Kong after his Canberra Guineas victory.

The complete 2016 catalogue is available online at inglis.com.au and on the Inglis Sales iPad App. Hard-copy catalogues are available at Scone Race Club over the carnival and at White Park.

The sale will be the final chance to secure a yearling in 2016 that is eligible for entry to the lucrative $5 million Inglis Race Series, for which nominations close on 31 July. CLICK HERE to download the nomination form.