Inspections are well underway at Inglis’ Oaklands complex of the 782 lots catalogued for the 2015 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale. Superhero achievements on the racetrack have created a scintillating buzz around this year’s sale, including that of Fontiton, the favourite for Saturday’s $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes.
THE extraordinary run of luck just keeps rolling along for Vasko Ognenovski.
The 55-year-old former driver spent $1.30 to buy the Herald Sun last year and put in one entry in the Herald Sun/Inglis Win A Share In A Racehorse competiton.
Arrowfield Stud is home to a great many outstanding broodmares, but few have produced four individual stakes-winners.
Halfway down the big Flemington straight in Saturday's $150,000 VRC C.S. Hayes S. 1400m G3 a brave placing seemed the most likely outcome for Dr Edmund & Belinda Bateman's 3YO Snitzel colt Wandjina.
Two two-year-old Inglis graduates, Pasadena Girl and Headwater, and three-year-old graduate Wandjina, saluted in fine form today at Flemington and Rosehill earning some well-deserved Black Type.
The catalogue for the third annual Inglis VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale is now available online. The two day sale will run on 19 and 20 April at Inglis’ Oaklands complex in Melbourne, and will once again be split into two sessions.
176 Lots of racing and breeding stock have been catalogued for the 2015 Inglis March Thoroughbred Sale at Inglis’ Oaklands complex in Melbourne on 20 March. Following from last year’s 95% clearance rate the sale is expected to once again produce impressive results. Selling will begin at 10:30am with 43 broodmares, six yearlings and unbroken stock and 127 racehorses.
Fontiton's very impressive victory in the Blue Diamond Prelude for fillies at Caulfield last Saturday was an object lesson for buyers at one of Australia’s forthcoming most elite yearling markets, the Inglis Premier Sale to be conducted at Oaklands, Melbourne on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday March 1, 2, 3 and 4.
With a legacy like that of the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, it is no wonder that with only ten days to go that the industry is positively buzzing. The 2015 edition of the sale that unearthed superheroes of the turf including Black Caviar, Fawkner, Snitzerland, Trust In A Gust, Sacred Kingdom and Blue Diamond favourite Foniton, will begin 12 noon on Sunday 1 March.
Opening her account with a dazzling four length win at Scottsville in South Africa on Wednesday was two year-old Bernardini (USA) filly Almashooqa, a $330,000 Inglis Easter Shadwell purchase from the draft of Torryburn Stud.
Seven juvenile trials were conducted at Rosehill on Tuesday morning with some interesting winners including a filly that has already achieved fame in the sale ring when becoming the most expensive yearling by Lonhro sold in Australia.
The Robert Smerdon-trained Fontiton looks destined to follow other fillies Earthquake, Miracles Of Life and Samaready and take home the $1 million Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes.
Chautauqua, one of the world's highest-ranked sprinters, galloped into favouritism for the $1 million Newmarket Handicap next month when he resumed with a narrow but impressive win in the group 2 Rubiton Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.
When Vasko Ognenovski entered the Inglis and Herald Sun Win A Share In A Racehorse competition in 2014 he could never have imagined that less than a year later he would own a share in the Blue Diamond favourite. Ognenovski won a 10 per cent share in exciting two-year-old filly Fontiton, along with two years of training and insurance after she was sold at the 2014 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.
Hard-working jockey Grant Buckley gets few opportunities in the city and has made the most of his ride on Lady Jivago in the Inglis Classic at Rosehill.