One of the world's most popular racehorses, Hong Kong-owned Red Cadeaux has undergone successful surgery on the career-ending fetlock injury sustained during Tuesday's Melbourne Cup and will retire to Living Legends park.
Ciaron Maher will try to equal the deeds of Australian Hall Of Fame trainer John Hawkes with his classy filly Jameka in the $1 million Crown Oaks at Flemington on Thursday.
With a bevy of bluebloods and a last start stakes-winner engaged in the Group III VRC Emirates Airline Plate for two year-old fillies at Flemington on Cup Day, modest Nicconi filly Concealer got under the guard of punters to score a powerful win.
American Pharoah ended his racing career with a spectacular five length victory in the Breeder' Cup Classic, becoming the the first Triple Crown winner to win the prestigious championship race.
IF it hadn’t been for the confident words of trainer Robert Smerdon, Politeness’ part-owner Phil Sly might not have made it to Flemington yesterday to see his super mare break her Group 1 maiden.
Politeness added plenty of sunshine to part-owner Phil Sly's day at Flemington with an exceptional victory in the Group 1 VRC Myer Classic over 1600m ahead of fellow Inglis Easter graduate Fenway.
Inglis is calling for entries for the Summer Thoroughbred Sale in Sydney and the December Thoroughbred Sale in Melbourne, the last two breeding and racing stock sales for the year. The sales are held a week apart, with the Summer Sale in Sydney on Friday 7 December 2015 followed by the Melbourne auction on Friday 11 December 2015.
Warrnambool factory worker Steve Priestley will be missing from work on Thursday week - instead he'll be trackside at Flemington watching Jameka, a horse he part-owns, run in the $1 million VRC Oaks
Seven stakes races across Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong were won on the weekend by Inglis graduates, highlighted by the barnstorming win of Hong Kong Horse of the Year Able Friend first up over 1200m at Sha Tin.
Hawkesbury trainer Joan Pracey claimed her second the $100,000 Inglis Trophy (1400m) at the Sale Turf Club in Victoria on Sunday. Asked To Leave won the lucrative event yesterday in very much the same manner as Upstacker in 2011, both having travelled 1,000 kms from Pracey’s home base.
The next outing for Inglis graduates Jameka and Lake Geneva will be to contest Group 1 races over the Melbourne Cup Carnival, after stakes wins at Moonee Valley today.