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Nettoyer wins another G1 as Inglis grads star nation wide

17th Apr 2021

Popular mare Nettoyer (Sebring) again defied her $20,000 Easter Sale price tag when victorious in the G1 Queen of the Turf Stakes at Randwick today.

Her win came as Inglis graduates won five Stakes race in three States as the autumn carnival continued.

Famous for her quirky diet of pizza and champagne, today’s win took Nettoyer’s career earnings to $2.4m – quite extraordinary given John Crowley purchased her for just $20,000 at the 2015 Easter Yearling Sale, before offering her again at the Inglis Ready2Race Sale later that year.

Nettoyer is one of 60 individual G1 winners offered through an Inglis sale since 2018.

Today’s G1 success follows on from Nettoyer’s last-to-first win in last year’s G1 Doncaster Mile.

Nettoyer is set to be sold at next month’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale at Riverside on the evening of Friday May 7.

She is catalogued as lot 41 in the Middlebrook Valley Lodge draft.

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Breeders Greg and Jodie White offered Nettoyer (pictured) through the Riversdale draft at the 2015 Easter Sale.

Meanwhile the lure of The Everest is set to ensure outstanding Easter colt Wild Ruler (Snitzel) races on for at least one more season – and on the strength of his Arrowfield Sprint win today, it’s easy to see why his connections want more.

Trapped three-deep on a hot speed in the $1m feature for 3YOs, Wild Ruler proved himself a G1 horse in a G2 event – by name only – holding off a surge of rivals to prove victorious.

A $525,000 Easter buy from breeders Kia Ora Stud for Newgate Farm, China Horse Club and WinStar, Wild Ruler is raced by some of the industry’s most prominent powerbrokers, with the purchasers teaming up with the likes of Sir Owen Glenn’s Go Bloodstock Australia, Gary Diamond’s G1g Racing & Breeding, Nick Vass, Glenlogan Park, Wilf Mula’s Aston Bloodstock and Steve Grant among others.

Today’s win continued a strong campaign for the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Wild Ruler, which began with an effortless win in the Listed Fireball before a luckless run in the G1 The Galaxy.

“That was a Group 2 race in name today but a Group 1 race in stature and quality of contestants,’’ an overjoyed Henry Field from Newgate said.

“The Snowden’s have pegged him as a genuine Group 1 horse for a long time and they were devastated when things didn’t pan out our way in The Galaxy and even today he was forced to do all the work, sitting three deep on the speed – even James McDonald hopped off and said he couldn’t believe he won – so he’s a proper racehorse, he’s so tough and so talented.

“He was phenomenal (when finishing 3rd) in the Coolmore and it’s nice to win the Arrowfield.’’

When asked about the horse’s future, Field continued: “He’s a racehorse, that’s what he is and he’s a bloody good one so while we will obviously discuss it with the broader ownership group, at this stage he will race on for another season at least and see where we can end up with him.

“A race like The Everest would be ideal for him, a tough 1200m here at Randwick, he’s absolutely an Everest horse so the focus will head that way now.’’

Wild Ruler firmed into $17 with TAB for the $15m The Everest – to be run at Randwick on October 16 - off the back of today’s success.

And Fasika (So You Think) proved she was back to her best with a tough on-speed win in the G2 Sapphire Stakes.

A lightly-raced 5YO mare, it was the Joe Pride-trained Fasika’s fifth career win at just start No.13 and took her earnings to $730,000.

Her owners Tricolours Racing and Syndications purchased Fasika for $120,000 at the 2017 Easter Yearling Sale, where she was offered by Middlebrook Valley Lodge.

Fasika was bred by AKC Thoroughbreds’ Andros and Kerry and Chrysiliou.

In Brisbane, the regally-bred mare Zaniah (Zoustar) secured a valuable first Stakes success with victory in the Listed Ascot Handicap at Eagle Farm.

It was a fourth career win for the Kris Lees-trained 5YO, whose I Am Invincible half sister (ex Listen Here) sold to Vic Bates for $1,050,000 at last week’s Easter Yearling Sale out of the Cressfield draft.

Bruce Perry purchased Zaniah – bred by Bob Oatley’s Balmoral Operations - for $1m at the 2017 Easter Sale, where she was offered by Edinglassie.

And in Adelaide, Tyche Goddess (Teofilo) put her Australasian Oaks credentials in the frame with victory in today’s traditional lead-up, the G3 Auraria Stakes at Morphettville.

The 3YO filly proved herself a genuine contender in the spring, running third in the Wakeful Stakes at Flemington on Derby Day.

And while she was unable to win the Oaks at Flemington five days later, the Premier Yearling Sale graduate of Blue Gum Farm is now firmly in contention to make amends at Morphettville in a fortnight.