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.
Success in thoroughbred breeding requires planning for the future, and producing that envisaged champion was executed perfectly by the breeders of Black Caviar and So You Think who had purchased their respective dams at an Inglis Broodmare Sale.
This blue-blooded Fastnet Rock colt carried the Vinery Stud colours to an impressive victory at Geelong on Wednesday making him an obvious choice for our One to Watch.
The Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale is the first opportunity for pinhookers to get their hands on weanlings to take through to the 2016 select yearling sales in Australasia.
Classy sprinter Zac Spirit will be presented in tip-top shape in the $500,000 Group 1 Lion City Cup (1200m) this Sunday, but will at the same time face one of his biggest tests thus far.
The overwhelming strength of the 2015 Inglis Select Yearling Sale series continued throughout the second day of the Inglis VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale which set a number of new records.
Pasadena Girl was the smallest horse in the field, but the filly proved that size doesn’t matter when she came out on top in the Group 1 $400,000 Champagne Stakes (1600m).
Trainer Leslie Khoo was a happy man when the horse he had spruiked from Day 1, Genius, proved him right by taking out the $90,000 Inglis Melbourne Juvenile Stakes (1200m), the third Leg of the Singapore Horseshoe Series on Friday night.
The reputation of Newgate Farm among the Australian breeding ranks continues to rise after it secured the rights to stand Royal Ascot-bound Wandjina at stud.
Speedy filly Mossfun was the dominant two year-old last season winning won four of her five starts for Team Hawkes highlighted by a brilliant Golden Slipper victory, but below par form this season has seen her retired to stud for owners Emirates Park.
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