The start of the famous two-day Scone Racing Carnival is just over a fortnight away and the catalogues of the Inglis Sales that border the race days are now available.
The first session of the VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale finished with an excellent clearance of 83% and a top price exceeding the highest price achieved in the inaugural sale last year.
Two-year-old Hunters Grace collected 12 times its yearling sale purchase price in prizemoney at Bendigo today when saluting in the $100,000 Inglis VOBIS Gold Plate over 1000m.
The 2012 Inglis Easter sale-topper when selling for $2,600,000, Black Caviar and All Too Hard’s little sister Belle Couture opened her account with a stylish win at Caulfield on Monday.
Inglis graduate Diamond Drille came with a well-timed run to nab the $1 million Group 1 ATC Queen of the Turf Stakes at Royal Randwick on Saturday. The win ensured Inglis’ position as the leading sales source of Group 1 winners during The Championships in Sydney.
BRENT Stanley posted his biggest success of his fledgling training career when Veuvelicious registered a soft win in today’s Fernhill Handicap at Randwick.
Twilight Royale, in line for one of the biggest pay days in Australian racing history at Scone next month, has come through her first lead up race perfectly according to her Warwick Farm based trainer Bjorn Baker.
A year ago Gerald Ryan went to the yearling sales determined to buy a large batch of juveniles, fearing his team was lacking, and now he’s the leading trainer of two-year-olds in the country.
An additional 25 yearlings have been supplemented into the upcoming Inglis Melbourne VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale, taking the total number of lots in the auction to 414.
Some of the Mornington Peninsula’s favourite racing names are expected to converge on one of Victoria’s favourite hospitality venues for the penultimate leg of the Inglis VOBIS Gold Regional Road Show.
The time has come to scour the catalogue of the 2014 Inglis HTBA Scone Yearling Sale in search of your next stable acquisition. 210 lots have been catalogued to be offered at White Park in Scone on Sunday 18 May.