Trainers from all parts of Australia descended on the Hunter Valley over the weekend and many will return to their stables with a new addition as 84% of lots offered at the 2014 Inglis HTBA Scone Yearling Sale were sold on Sunday.
Shortly after the Denman gelding Pinch River scored in the Listed Dalrello Stakes at Doomben, Denman struck again with the promising Les Bridge-trained filly Shigeru Sendan in the Listed Pryde's Easifeed Woodlands Stakes (1100m) at Scone.
Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse provided the trifecta in the $400,000 RL Inglis Guineas (1400m) at Scone on Saturday with Cosmic Endeavour defeating stable mates Liberty’s Choice and Ryker in the feature event.
Local trainer Rod Northam won his third $100,000 Inglis 2YO Challenge in five years thanks to a strong performance by I Am Invincible juvenile Voodoo Lad today at the Scone Race Club.
$2.4 million Inglis Triple Crown Bonus aspirations go on the line this Saturday at the Scone Race Club with Twilight Royale set for the biggest winner’s cheque in New South Wales racing history if she can salute in the Inglis Guineas.
The Team Williams reduction sale draft of 27 entries at the Inglis Melbourne Select Racehorse Sale on Friday, May 23, is racing’s version of long-awaited Boxing Day sales bargains.
The four days of sales and races in Scone NSW are imminent with festivities kicking off this Thursday 15 May with the Inglis Scone Thoroughbred Sale at White Park.
Victory for an Australian sired horse in the Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm on June 7 would give Australian sired runners the rare feat of taking out every Derby conducted in 2013-14. They have already succeeded in these classics in the racing year in Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Perth and Adelaide.
Chris Waller made a clean sweep Queensland’s two-year-old triple crown in 2010 with Inglis graduate Pressday and he’ll try to do it again this year with another in Brazen Beau.
The all-conquering Chris Waller stable kicked off the Brisbane Winter Carnival with Brazen Beau taking out the Group 2 $175,000 Bollinger Champagne Classic (1200m) at Doomben today.
Arrowfield Stud’s Manhattan Rain sired his first stakes-winner on Saturday when the Mick Price-trained debutante Moonovermanhattan led every step of the way in the Group III Darley National Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville.
The David Kok trained Castor threw himself into the mix for next week’s Group 2 Aushorse Golden Horseshoe in Singapore with an impressive display at Kranji last night in the Inglis Sydney Better Life Stakes.