Injury may have robbed Chautauqua of the opportunity to conquer Hong Kong last December but Team Hawkes hasn’t given up on the idea of the superstar sprinter making it on the world stage.
Meanwhile, highly regarded Goulburn colt colt Hellbent (I Am Invincible-Volkaspray, by Volksraad) will bid to get his career back on track when he lines up in the Inglis Dash (1100m) at Flemington on Saturday.
A quality field of 15 three-year-olds, including five last-start winners, line up for the inaugural $250,000 Inglis Dash to be run over 1100m down the straight at Flemington this Saturday.
Trainer Robert Smerdon has confirmed that smart mare Politeness (Street Sense-Berengaria, by Commands) will open her autumn campaign in the Gr1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield on 27 February.
Pride Of Dubai has not raced since he notched his second Group I win in the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes in April last year after bone bruising kept the colt out of the spring.
The lure of another lucrative sales-restricted race has persuaded trainer Henry Dwyer to keep last-start Moonee Valley winner Rocky Boomboa in work for the Inglis Dash.
Exciting young Newgate Farm stallion Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock-Forest Native, by Forest Wildcat) has sired his first winner with 2YO filly Kentucky Miss posting a brilliant debut win at Warwick Farm on Thursday.
Type is a key focus at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale and with three individual two-year-old stakes winners already this season the sale’s outstanding racetrack record is continuing to deliver for buyers.
Retired Randwick trainer Grahame Begg featured at Canterbury on Wednesday as a winning co-owner when three year-old Mossman filly Mossin’ Around scored a shock debut win at long odds over a field featuring a bevy of expensive royally bred fillies.
The inaugural $250,000 Inglis Sprint at Royal Randwick was won by Inglis Classic graduate Lady Sniper (Snippetson x Lady Titus) under the guidance of Jason Collett, taking her earnings to more than ten times her purchase price in fewer than ten starts.
Mick Price’s decision to debut two-year-old Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt x Extremely) in the $500,000 RL Inglis Nursery paid off with the Inglis Classic graduate powering to the line in a race record-breaking win in 56.85 for a large group of owners.
The ultimate Inglis sale in 2015, the December Thoroughbred Sale, concluded an exceptional year of auctions in Inglis sale rings. The sale, held at the Inglis Oaklands Complex in Melbourne, delivered a healthy clearance rate of 90%.