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Pinker Pinker salutes in Australia’s weight-for-age championship

22nd Oct 2011

Pinker Pinker salutes in Australia’s weight-for-age championship

The tremendous run of Group 1 victories for graduates of Inglis’ Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale continued at Moonee Valley today, as Pinker Pinker strode away with Australia’s weight-for-age championship, the $3million G1 MVRC Tatts WS Cox Plate.

Top jockey Craig Williams knows what it takes to win a WS Cox Plate, having guided fellow Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale graduate Fields Of Omagh to victory in 2006, and the leading hoop gave PINKER PINKER ($120,000 2009 Premier, 4m Reset-Miss Marion) a gem of a ride to outgun Jimmy Choux and Redkindled Interest in the run to the line over the 2040m contest.

“We’ve seen some champion’s horses here today, we saw top three-year-old Manawanui, last year’s Melbourne Cup winner Americain as well as Black Caviar, but today Pinker Pinker deserves to win this race, she was just great,” Williams said.

“When I asked her to be really tough between horses she was great and game, and when she came out to make her run I thought oh great we’re going to have to chase down Jimmy Choux, but after I gave her a little reminder and asked her to extend she was never going to be in any doubt.

“She just won with ease, she gave me a beautiful ride and was she was awesome today,” Williams added.

Trainer Greg Eurell, who selected the mare from Milford Thoroughbreds draft at Oaklands, had tasted Group 1 success with other gallopers in the past, but today’s victory was hard to comprehend for the great conditioner.

“It’s hard to absorb at the moment. It’s really got to me. A great experience,” Eurell said.

“We spoke to Craig yesterday afternoon and typical as Craig is he had it worked out to the minute what we’d like to do, went through the whole race and he was very confident.

“She just had nothing go wrong this preparation, she led into this absolutely perfect”.

Pinker Pinker (pictured) joins a long list of horses that have gone through Inglis’ yearling sale rings onto winning the time honoured WS Cox Plate, such as Maldivian, Fields Of Omagh and the great Might And Power.

“It was funny how things work out, we were at the Inglis sales and I ran into David and Carol [Kirby] and they had a couple of horses there that they had picked out and wanted me to look at,” Eurell added

“We had a look at her and she was the one we wanted and fortunately we got her and it just went on from there.”

The daughter of Reset is now the winner of six races from 16 starts and over $2.4million in prizemomey, more than her owners could ever imagine.

“Unbelievable, can’t describe it, still shaking,” said part-owner Julie Gazdowicz.

“I don’t think you ever image it, it’s something you only dream of.

“She is totally family owned, I’ve grown up with my family breeding horses since I can remember and this is a dream come true”.

Pinker Pinker joins Australian Horse of the Year Black Caviar and South African Horse of the Year Igugu as mares purchased at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale to win at Group 1 level in 2011.

The 2012 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale will be held at Oaklands from February 27 to March 1 next year.