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Santa delivers the goods at Caulfield

2nd Oct 2017

Santa Ana Lane surged into the Group 1 club on Sunday, leading home a trifecta of Inglis graduates in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.

The Anthony Freedman-trained Santa Ana Lane (Lope De Vega x Fast Fleet) gave his stallion his second Australian Group 1 when he charged home over the top of his stablemate Mr Sneaky (High Chaparral).

So Si Bon (So You Think) finished third.

Santa Ana Lane, an $80,000 buy for Flemington Bloodstock from Rosemont Stud’s 2014 Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale draft, has now won over $600,000 for his connections.

Sunday’s win came in a class, track and race record time of 1:22.28 for the 1400m feature.

Also on Sunday’s Caulfield program a pair of Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale graduates made a clean sweep of the Guineas’ Preludes.

Perast (Snitzel x Thousand Veils), a $100,000 Premier yearling from the Maluka Thoroughbreds draft of 2016, edged out fellow Inglis graduate Summer Passage (Snitzel x Subsequent) in the Group 3 Caulfield Guineas audition, giving the Arrowfield Stud stallion a race quinella.

Booker (Written Tycoon x Noondie) proved too strong in the Group 2 Thousand Guineas Prelude, taking her overall record to two wins and three placings from five starts.

Booker was a $100,000 buy for Barrie Griffiths, also at the 2016 Premier Sale, from the Mill Park Stud draft.

It was the first Stakes victory for both 3YOs.

Meanwhile all is in readiness for Wednesday’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale at Oaklands Junction, Melbourne, for which 158 juveniles have been catalogued.

The final breeze ups were held at Cranbourne today, with Wingara Thoroughbreds’ Lot 45 (Foxwedge x World Map) recording the fastest 200m breeze time of the morning at 10.97secs.

The track was rated a Good 4.

Footage of today’s breezes will be on the Inglis website and iPad app later today, alongside the vision of the previous breeze days from Canterbury and Cranbourne.

To view the Ready2Race Sale catalogue, CLICK HERE.

Inspections began yesterday and will continue today and tomorrow, before Wednesday’s sale which starts at midday.

To view the parade schedule, CLICK HERE.