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.
Entries are now being accepted for the 2015 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale, Australia’s first major breeding stock sale which will run over three days from 3 May.
The record books were rewritten in Sydney this week with the 2015 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book setting new benchmarks. The year on year average has risen 20 per cent, the median up 15 per cent and sale gross up an impressive 47 per cent.
I Am Invincible added a new chapter to his Inglis Classic story with his progeny helping drive the sale to new heights on Day Two of the 2015 Summer Book in Sydney.
It was a hot start in and out of the sale ring on the opening day of the 2015 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book on Sunday 8 February as the average and median roared up 30% to new benchmarks.
Australian bred and Inglis sold gallopers continued their Tri Nations ascendancy on Saturday recording Group level wins in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Tony McEvoy has his sights firmly on the $1million Group 1 MRC Blue Diamond Stakes later this month following his stable quinella of Stoker and Manhattan Blues in the $250,000 RL Inglis Premier at Sandown today.
The trophy for the $250,000 RL Inglis Classic race will head north with the Wyong trained filly Lady Jivago finishing best to take out the lucrative Inglis Race Series event at Rosehill on Saturday.
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