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.
The lucrative $5 million Inglis Race Series for 2015 Inglis yearling sale graduates kicked off today with a tough win by Inglis Premier graduate Dalradian in the $250,000 RL Inglis Banner for two-year-olds over 1000m at Moonee Valley.
Inglis Easter graduate Chautauqua cemented his place in history overnight delivering an absolutely phenomenal victory in the $1 million Group 1 MVRC Manikato Stakes over at Moonee Valley over1200m ahead of Srikandi and Rebel Dane.
For most of Saturday, the nation’s racing public will be Cox Plate-centric, but for a group of Sydney-based owners the pressure will be on for the first race, as John Sargent’s maiden colt Credible Witness lines up for the $250,000 RL Inglis Banner Race at Moonee Valley.
Randwick trainer John Sargent and Broadmeadow-based Kris Lees have succumbed to the dangling $250,000 carrot in sending their juveniles to Moonee Valley on Saturday for the Inglis Banner (1000m).
The $125,000 Listed Rosemont Stud Stakes at Geelong on Wednesday was won in a thrilling finish by lightly raced Nicconi mare Exclusive Lass, a $75,000 Inglis Premier purchase for Sheamus Mills Bloodstock from the Three Bridges Thoroughbreds draft.
The Inglis Banner at Moonee Valley on Cox Plate Day for the two-year-olds has some exciting Victorian bred juveniles lining up for a crack at a big prize.
Blue-blooded High Chaparral (IRE) filly Sacred Eye was a Breednet 'One to Watch’ when winning on debut at Geelong last month and after beating the colts to win the $500,000 Group III MRC Caulfield Classic on Saturday is now favourite for the Group I VRC Oaks.
Reigning Champion Australian First Season Sire Hinchinbrook featured at Randwick on Saturday with a highly impressive juvenile winner in Miss Amajardan, who broke subsequent Group I winner Sweet Idea’s class record.
Caulfield Cup Day, the first of the Melbourne Spring Carnival majors saw brilliant performances from Inglis graduates at both Caulfield and Royal Randwick, headlined by Mongolian Khan’s brilliant performance in the Group 1 feature.
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