Expatriate Australian Brett Prebble and South African superstar Douglas Whyte have probably lost count of the number of tight finishes they have fought out in Hong Kong, where they have both been at the top of the tree for more than a decade.
If today’s results are anything to go by it is no surprise that Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse is a stalwart of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. Under the guidance of Gai, Easter graduates today too out a Group 1 at Flemington, and both a Group 1 and Listed race at Royal Randwick.
Leading South Coast trainer Bede Murray had a lot of fun with a horse called Sure and Fast back in the seventies and is having just as much fun with the modern day version who won the $100,000 Provincial Championships Qualifer at Wyong on Thursday.
The success realised in the first Session of the 2015 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale has continued into Session II today, resulting in new record average, gross and clearance rate recorded in Melbourne.
For the sixth consecutive year the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale has risen to new heights continuing the momentum from a record Classic Sale last month.
The 2015 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale keep up its record setting pace into Day Two with spirited bidding leading to an increased average price of $99,356 for the 285 lots sold on the first two days of the Melbourne sale.
Inglis graduates Shamal Wind and Under The Louvre went one-two in the Group 1 MRC Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday, making a quinella for Robert Smerdon and Aquanita Racing-purchased yearlings.
Results in stakes races from Warwick Farm and Caulfield on Saturday showed just how much we will miss two outstanding shuttle stallions High Chaparral (IRE) and Street Cry (IRE).
Five years ago Newgate was a boarding and selling operation. Stallions were a distant dream - Newgate's foundation sire Foxwedge was just a two-year-old making his way in the world on the way to the Golden Slipper.
With the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale starting on Sunday, Testa Rossa's record at the sale ensures that he will again be a popular sire with trainers, owners and syndicators.
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.
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