The Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale swung into Day Three on Tuesday where studmasters and part-owners of freshmen sires competed against new bloodstock investors and the year’s leading yearling sale vendors.
Master Victorian trainer Darren Weir has already turned water into wine with Trust In A Gust, who has gone from a bargain buy to a $2 million stallion. But a third Group 1 triumph for Trust In A Gust, in Saturday’s BTC Cup (1200m) at Doomben, would give Weir an extra slice of personal satisfaction.
The catalogue for this Friday’s Inglis May Thoroughbred Sale is now online. 17 Lots will go under the hammer following the conclusion of the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Autumn Book, in which 96 Lots are catalogued to be auctioned from 11.00am at Inglis’ Newmarket Complex in Sydney.
The 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale got off to a confident start with 194 weanlings traded among a broad local and international buying bench at Newmarket on Sunday.
Able Friend recorded his sixth straight stakes victory when taking out the Group 1 Hong Kong Champions Mile this afternoon, flowing on from the international success of fellow Inglis graduate The Conglomerate at Group 2 level in South Africa on Saturday.
On the eve of the 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale, it is fitting that the dam of today’s Group 1 SAJC Australasian Oaks winner Delicacy (Al Maher x Simply Wicked) was one of the quality Lots purchased at last year’s sale.
The Group II Korea Racing Authority Guineas at Greyville in South Africa on Saturday saw two Aussie bred three year-olds fight out the finish with blue-blooded Lonhro colt The Conglomerate prevailing over Mac de Lag, a son of Encosta de Lago.
Gai Waterhouse saddled the favourite Nostariel to take out the Cottontail Wines Inglis Bonus 2YO Handicap today on the first day of the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup Racing Carnival.
A half-brother to smart mare Dublin Lass, promising Manhattan Rain three year-old Mr Manhattan (pictured as a yearling) made it two wins from three starts when scoring at Canterbury on Wednesday giving the team at Luskin Park reason to celebrate.
Vendors are arriving and many have begun parading in anticipation of the 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale, to be held on 3, 4, 5 and 6 May at Inglis Newmarket Complex in Sydney.
The upcoming Inglis Classic Autumn Book and the Inglis HTBA Scone Yearling Sale are the last two opportunities in 2015 to secure a yearling that is eligible to be nominated for the lucrative $5 million Inglis Race Series.
In conjunction with the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale, Inglis will be conducting a Breeding Seminar to be hosted by Caroline Searcy in the restaurant upstairs at the Newmarket sale complex from 5.00pm this Friday, 1 May.
Inglis managing director Mark Webster today announced a number of important changes to its bloodstock team, in particular a new management team for its Victorian operations. The changes are a culmination of deliberate succession planning undertaken at Inglis.