The grand finale to a massive Scone Horse Festival will begin with Australia’s richest country carnival – the $2 million Scone Cup Carnival – being held across Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May, and will conclude with the Inglis Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Scone Yearling Sale on Sunday 17 May.
A record 439 runners have been nominated across the 16 races at Australia’s richest country racing carnival at Scone this weekend with nearly $2 million in prizemoney at stake.
An 85% clearance rate was achieved at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Autumn Book, as familiar faces returned to the sales source of their stable’s current two-year-old stars.
Triple Crown Syndications’owners cheered Rock Mylady (Road To Rock ex Myladys) (pictured as a yearling) home in the 1300m Handicap at Warwick Farm yesterday, where he displayed an explosive turn of foot in the final 100m to run down the clear leader, Mana, on the Heavy track and land his second win from only four starts.
Due to overwhelming support from vendors the Inglis Great Southern Sale has been extended to four days, and will run on 21, 22, 23 and 24 June 2015 at Inglis’ Oaklands Complex in Melbourne.
The four day 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale ended on Wednesday finishing with total sales exceeding $24 million on over 600 lots at a clearance rate of 80%.
Hot on the hooves of Dead Or Alive’s dynamic stakes victory in the Oaklands Plate on Saturday, Wanted has fired another shot with first starter Dangerous Breeding scampering away with the VOBIS Gold Strike (1000m) at Warrnambool today.
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.