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Memsie Restarts Group 1 Action After Brilliant Season For Inglis Graduates

25th Aug 2016

The Memsie Stakes starts the new Group 1 season in Australia this Saturday and Inglis graduates will be out to build on last season’s haul which made Inglis the market leader of Group 1 wins, Group 1 winners, 3YO Group 1 winners and 2YO Group 1 winners.

Sprinters, Milers, Two-Year-Olds, Oaks, Derby and Cup winners were among the 18 individual Inglis graduates that won 20 Group 1 races in Australia in 2015/16, offered for sale by 15 different vendors.

The full list of recent Inglis Group 1 Winners is updated at inglis.com.au

Widden Stud was the leading vendor having offered Yankee Rose (ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes), Prized Icon (ATC Champagne Stakes) and Vanbrugh (ATC Spring Champion Stakes). The trio all have big aims this spring including races such as the Caulfield Guineas and W.S. Cox Plate.

Arrowfield Stud offered Abbey Marie and Howard Be Thy Name within 45 minutes of each other at the 2014 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling and two years later they won the SAJC Australasian Oaks and South Australian Derby respectively.

Extreme Choice, bred and sold by Bell River Thoroughbreds, was the first of three Inglis graduates to win a two-year-old Group 1 last season when the Not A Single Doubt colt claimed the MRC Blue Diamond Stakes, a race won by past champions such as Redoute’s Choice, Alinghi and Manikato.

The MVRC Manikato Stakes, named after the great sprinter, was the first of three Group 1 races won by Champion Sprinter elect Chautauqua in Australia last season before he headed to Hong Kong and claimed a stunning victory in the HKJC Chairman’s Sprint Prize. The Berkley Park Stud graduate won the fastest Group 1, the VRC Lightning Stakes, and the nation’s richest sprint, the ATC TJ Smith Stakes, during an outstanding season.

Carnivals in Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne all featured Group 1 wins by Inglis graduates. In addition to those mentioned above the winners included Delectation (VRC Darley Classic), Eagle Way (BRC Queensland Derby), Fawkner(VRC Makybe Diva Stakes), Good Project (WATC Railway Stakes), Jameka (VRC Oaks), Malaguerra (BTC Cup), Mongolian Khan (MRC Caulfield Cup), Mourinho (MRC Underwood Stakes), Politeness (VRC Myer Classic), The Quarterback (VRC Newmarket Handicap) and Under The Louvre (BRC Stradbroke Handicap).

Overseas success wasn’t limited to Chautauqua with Contentment winning the HKJC Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup, while across the Indian Ocean was The Conglomerate winning South Africa’s premier race the Durban July and fellow Inglis graduate Mac de Lago saluting in the Greyville Gold Challenge.

“Inglis graduates continue to exemplify the skill of Australian breeders both locally and internationally, which is testament to the high standards of young stock they breed, raise and sell,” said Inglis’ Managing Director Mark Webster

"We congratulate the breeders and vendors of the Inglis Group 1 winners over the past twelve months and everyone who supported Inglis’ yearling sales in 2016. We wish all the best of luck in the upcoming breeding season and the 2016/17 racing season here and abroad,” Webster said.

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