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Triple stakes success for Inglis three-year-olds at Flemington

2nd Oct 2011

Mosheen, Collar and Isopach continued Inglis graduate’s great run in three-year-old stakes races this Australian racing season, when all three collected valuable wins in style at Flemington today.

MOSHEEN ($250,000 2010 Easter, 3f Fastnet Rock-Sumehra) was back to her talented best taking out the Group 2 VRC Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m) in great fashion.

Runner-up in the Golden Slipper in April, Mosheen had been performing well without much luck this campaign and the addition of the blinkers for trainer Robert Smerdon clearly did the trick as she scored by two and a half lengths over Bliss Street and Celebrity Girl.

Mosheen will now head to the Group 1 MRC One Thousand Guineas, a race won by Inglis Easter graduate Irish Lights, who is also by Fastnet Rock.

“Definitely the Thousand Guineas is a main aim and we’re hoping with her pedigree that she’ll stretch out and even be here on Oaks day,” said Robert Smerdon.

From the family of Champion galloper Might And Power, the daughter of Fastnet Rock was offered from Bylong Park Stud’s draft at 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and was snapped up for $250,000 by Troy Corsten’s Newmarc Bloodstock.

Mosheen became Inglis’ 15th individual three-year-old stakes winner this season, following the Listed win of Collar earlier on the Flemington card.

COLLAR ($160,000 2010 Easter, 3g O’Reilly-Laebeel) marked himself down as a very exciting young galloper with a dominant display leading home an Inglis trifecta in the Listed Doncaster Stakes (1400m) in Melbourne.

The son of O’Reilly produced an impressive on-pace performance for prominent owner Lloyd Williams, who will be hoping the youngster can bring him as much success as fellow Easter graduate Zipping did.

“He is a very promising horse this bloke,” Macedon Lodge’s Nick Williams said.

“He is a big, raw sort of horse with a great staying future ahead of him.

“We certainly won’t bottom him. We will see where he takes us,” Williams added.

Sold from the draft of Little Avondale Stud at the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Collar had over a length to spare on the line today over First Course ($90,000 Premier) and Hell’s Kitchen ($235,000 Premier).

ISOPACH (P$45,000 2010 Classic, 3g Magic Albert-Curvaceous) finished off the day at Flemington for Inglis three-year-old graduates when scoring in the last race, the Listed UCI Stakes (1800m), for Patinack Farm.

Out of a Zabeel mare and from the family of Melbourne Cup winner Subzero, Patinack Farm will be hoping Isopach can keep improving towards the $1.5million VRC Derby at the end of the month.

“That [the Derby] has been the plan this whole time in,” stable representative Glen Thompson said.

“He’ll go to the Norman Robinson and then into the Derby

“It was a very strong win”.

Isopach was offered by Patinack Farm at the 2010 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale, but fell short of his $50,000 reserve.

Today’s victory took the son of Magic Albert’s earnings past $160,000 from nine starts, with the Patinack Farm galloper becoming the 16th Inglis three-year-old to win at stakes level this season in Australia.