Chris Waller will be hoping two of his well-performed stable servants Junoob (GB) and Pythagorean (GB) can leave his care in winning form. The imported pair are listed to go to auction in Melbourne on December 11 but not before they contest feature races this weekend in NSW and Victoria.
Although spring racing is all but over, there are a multitude of chances for trainers and connections to share in the $5 million Inglis Race Series this summer, with $1.6 million on offer across five outstanding events to be held between now and the start of the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale in February.
The Melbourne Cup Carnival was named the winner of the Major Festivals and Events category for the third consecutive year at Monday's Victorian Tourism Awards.
Tony McEvoy is hoping to get a Christmas bonus for the connections of Jackson after the gelding made a winning debut, much to the chagrin of punters in the listed Merson Cooper Stakes (1000m) at Sandown.
Chautauqua joined Lankan Rupee as the equal-highest rated Australian galloper after the latest release of the Longines World's Best Racehorse Rankings.
Two outstanding youngsters flew the flag for Inglis-sold two-year-olds across two countries today, taking out both juvenile stakes races in Australia and New Zealand.
140 Lots have been catalogued for the 2015 Inglis December Thoroughbred Sale, to be held on Friday 11 December at the Inglis Oaklands Complex in Melbourne. The first Lot will walk through the ring at 11.00am beginning with broodmares and followed by yearlings, unbroken stock and racing stock.
Promising unbeaten colt Top Score will give trainer John Sargent a guide to his future prospects when he takes on a strong form race at Rosehill on Saturday.
Trainer John McArdle has confirmed that impressive Flemington winner Power Trip (Hard Spun-Rada, by Royal Academy) will be aimed at the $1.5 million Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on 27 February.
Inglis graduates made their mark on the final day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington, with thrilling quinellas in both the Group 1 VRC Darley Classic and the Group 3 VRC Maribyrnong Plate.
Jim Cassidy has ridden the racing rollercoaster so many times that he takes missing out on his final Group 1 mount in his stride.The champion jockey will retire without adding to his 104 Group 1 wins after the scratching of his VRC Oaks mount Dawnie Perfect.
Despite yesterday's torrential downpour in Melbourne on Oaks Day, and the likelihood that the track will still play soft for tomorrow's Emirates Stakes Day with expected showers today, bookmakers are still pricing Chautauqua as the good thing he looks on paper for the Gr1 Darley Classic (1200m).
Thunderstorms earlier in the day could not dampen the hopes for Jameka in the VRC Oaks (2500m) at Flemington and the favourite duly saluted, becoming the eighth Inglis graduate to win the Group 1 fillies Classic in the last 12 years.