The opening race at Randwick on Wednesday was won by nicely bred Shamardal (USA) filly Kind Heart, a $160,000 Inglis Easter purchase for Astute Bloodstock from the draft of Torryburn Stud.
The catalogue for the 2015 Inglis Autumn Thoroughbred Sale is now online with 20 broodmares, 33 racehorses, ten yearlings and weanlings and two stallions to be offered for sale at Inglis’ Newmarket complex this Friday 13th March from 11:00am.
She was the most expensive filly from the first crop of ill-fated Northern Meteor and she won her first stakes race at Morphettville on Monday making her big team of owners including Vinery Stud and associated partners very happy.
Sure And Fast, trained at Kembla Grange by Bede Murray, qualified for the $300,000 Provincial Championship Final (1400m) when he won the first heat over 1350 metres at Wyong on March 5 beating the Kris Lees-trained Selectify.
Seasoned stayer Tanby hadn’t won a race since the Group II MRC Zipping Classic in 2012, but the eight year-old son of Galileo (IRE) was the Tanby of old at Morphettville on Monday, surging late to snatch victory in the Group II SAJC Adelaide Cup.
Entries close this Friday 13 March for Australia’s first major breeding stock sale of 2015, the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale in Sydney.
Vinery Stud's champion sire More Than Ready (USA) has had a recent flurry of juvenile stakes-winners – Always Allison, Haybah, Ready for Victory – and now in South Africa a debut success for Entisaar in the Listed Ruffian Stakes at Turffontein.
Madam Gangster was feeling the heat after plundering three consecutive races. So she went into hiding for a brief spell before emerging at Flemington to snatch the biggest haul of her life.
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.