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Inglis Graduates Kick-Off Spring In Style

3rd Sep 2011

Headed by quality trio Pinker Pinker, Littorio and Sincero, Inglis graduates marked the start of spring racing in style with Group success at both Flemington and Warwick Farm today.

PINKER PINKER ($120,000 2009 Premier, 4m Reset-Miss Marion) was aided by a positive Glen Boss ride to notch up her second career success at Group 2 level with victory in the VRC Let’s Elope Stakes.

Selected by trainer Greg Eurell from Milford Thoroughbreds draft at Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, the daughter of Reset is now the winner of five races with earnings of $485,000.

LITTORIO ($15,000 2006 Premier, 7g Bellotto-Our Centasea) made it a Group 2 running double for Melbourne graduates at Flemington, overcoming a 17 month absence from the track due to suspensory troubles to record an incredible win in the Group 2 VRC Makybe Diva Stakes.

The dual Group 1 winner was greeted with emotional scenes upon his return to scale, with the gelding being raced by the family of his breeder Mark Barrett who sadly lost a long battle with cancer last year.

His patient trainer Nigel Blackiston will wait to see how the $2.5million earner pulls up before making a decision on the galloper's next start.

Stradbroke winner SINCERO ($8,000 2009 Classic, 4g Umatilla-Yours As Always) then defeated another top class field in the final race on the transferred Warwick Farm meeting, the Group 3 Tattersall’s Club Tramway Handicap.

Other Inglis stakes winners today included:

CELEBRITY GIRL ($500,000 2010 Easter, 3f Starcraft-Dashing Granada) will be aimed at the Group 1 MRC Thousand Guineas after maintaining her unbeaten record with an impressive performance to claim the Listed VRC Cap d’Antibes Stakes for trainer Mark Kavanagh at Flemington.

SPECTER ($80,000 2010 Easter, 3c Nadeem-Woman In White) then gave Anthony Freedman his first stakes winner with victory in the Listed VRC Henry Bucks Best Dressed Stakes, in the process turning the table on second placegetter Chase The Rainbow whom took out a $50,000 Inglis Race Series Bonus event at Geelong last month over today’s winner.