The Caulfield Cup prize money purse will be raised to $3 million and a second $1 million three-year-old race installed within October’s Caulfield Cup Carnival as part of a raft of developments announced by the Melbourne Racing Club today.
Australia’s leading first season sire I Am Invincible added another new impressive winner to his tally when the Chris Waller trained colt Brazen Beau blazed to a dominant debut win at Canterbury on Wednesday.
From two-year-old brilliance in Melbourne to a tenacious middle-distance performance in Singapore, Inglis graduates got off to an auspicious start to the Year of The Horse with three stakes wins on Saturday.
Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse won a Golden Slipper with a Corumbene Stud bred son of More Than Ready (USA) in Sebring and she may well win a Blue Diamond with a Corumbene Stud bred filly by the same sire in Nayeli.
The juvenile fillies event at Moonee Valley on Friday night went the way of promising Choisir filly Japhils, a $105,000 Inglis Premier purchase from the draft of Three Bridges Thoroughbreds.
Australian bred and Inglis sold speedster Amber Sky had a successful Australia Day on Sunday. The four-year-old bolted away with the Hong Kong Group 1 Kent & Curwen Centenary Cup over 1000m at Sha Tin.
The 2014 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book concluded on Monday with excellent results across the board pointing to strengthening support for the new format.
Powerful Australian bred and Inglis sold galloper Able Friend turned on the afterburners at Sha Tin on Sunday evening, steaming away with the Group 1 Hong Kong Classic Mile in race record time.
A rising average price and a 84% clearance rate underpinned strong trade on the opening day of the 2014 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book at Newmarket.
$46,000 Summer Book purchase Peggy Jean made it a triple treat at Randwick on Saturday when the filly finished hard to take out the Restricted Listed $250,000 Inglis Classic race for two-year-olds.
Inspections are well underway at Inglis’ Newmarket Sales complex in Sydney ahead of the 480 lot Classic Summer Book which kicks off at 10am this Sunday 19 January.