Racing Victoria (RV) has today announced changes to the racing program for the 2015 Spring Racing Carnival to provide a better flow of feature races for sprinters and weight-for-age horses.
It's always nice to break the ice with a Black Type win and that's what happened for two year-old More Than Ready (USA) colt Ready to Attack, who was successful in the Group III Langerman Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday.
The all-the-way win of Majestic Duke at Flemington has helped ease the pain of co-trainers Terry and Katrina O'Sullivan losing one of their best horses to injury.
Which sires are more likely to succeed than others? It's a question broodmare owners ask themselves at this time of year as they seek to shorten the odds in their quest to find a first season sire that might one day be a champion sire.
ll-fated Beneteau posted his tenth Australian winner of the season on Thursday when 2014 Inglis The Star Ready 2 Race Sale graduate Tatoosh resumed from a spell to win at Wyong, so if you backed Beneteau to be leading first season sire by winners you'd be starting think about a collect.
A bumper four-day 2015 Inglis Great Southern Sale rounded off an astronomical season of Inglis’ sales in 2015, where 3500 thoroughbreds were sold at an outstanding overall clearance of 84%.
The Broodmare Session concluded on the third day of the 2015 Inglis Great Southern Sale, grossing $2,290,900 on 196 Lots sold. Following the trend set by the Weanling Sessions, strong increases were recorded across key metrics.
Day Two of the 2015 Inglis Great Southern Sale saw a continuation of impressive results through to the completion of the Weanling Sessions, and a promising start to the Broodmare Session. A further 42 Platinum weanlings were sold today, taking the average for that session to $24,368 across a total of 192 Lots. 78 General weanlings were sold grossing $539,950, taking the average price for weanlings across both sessions to a record $19,329.
The 2015 Inglis Great Southern Sale concluded Day One having sold 141 weanlings at an outstanding average of $23,550, a 59% increase on the 2014 figure. Gross rose 50% to $3,320,500, and median nearly doubled from $6,000 to $11,000.
Smart two-year-old Northkape proved today that racing is a game that everyone can enjoy, when she lead the whole way to take out the $100,000 Inglis VOBIS Gold Plate at Cranbourne over 1000m on debut, earning $60,000 plus bonuses for her connections.
Reigning’s win at Rosehill on Saturday recalls his stakes-winning half-sister Averau who was one of the first pin hooks sold by fledgling farm Burnewang North in 2010. This week they look forward to presenting the second-largest draft of weanlings (23) at the Melbourne Great Southern Sale commencing Sunday 21 June.
If there is a centre to the racing world surely Royal Ascot is it. In a sense it is the home of the sport of kings and Australia's best trainers are ready to annex it in the Diamond Jubilee on Saturday.
Pat Hyland has his sights set on some big spring targets for his talented youngster Gredington, but couldn’t resist starting his campaign early to chase some lucrative prizemoney on offer at his home track this weekend. The Magnus colt headlines a capacity field of 12 two-year-olds for Sunday’s $100,000 Inglis VOBIS Gold Plate (1000 metres) at Cranbourne, which also carries $30,000 in Super VOBIS bonuses.