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.
South Africa’s star sprinting three-year-old filly Alboran Sea netted her third Group 1 success on a busy weekend for Inglis graduates which won nine stakes races.
Uniquely, the Widden Stud in the Widden Valley, a spur off the south western end of the Hunter Valley, has two young sires in its historic stallion yards shaping up very good winner-getters who were not only brilliant Group 1 winning Australian racehorses, but also performers who turned in good efforts in one of England’s most prestigious sprints, the King’s Stand at Royal Ascot.
Champion mare Alinghi was in the news at the 2015 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale when her colt by Snitzel sold for $1.8 million and his older three-quarter sister by Redoute's Choice opened her winning account at Canterbury on Thursday.
The strength of the racing industry in the upper region of the Hunter Valley was showcased by the first three home in the inaugural running of the $300,000 Country Championship Final at Randwick on April 6, the opening day of the Australian Championships.