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.
The 2014 Inglis Melbourne Select Racehorse Sale catalogue featuring 27 superb entries from Lloyd and Nick Williams is now available. The one day sale will be held at Oaklands on Friday 23 May.
151 lots have been catalogued for the 2014 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale Winter Book, which can be viewed online at inglis.com.au and on the updated Inglis Sales iPad App
The new dates and format of the Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale were due to turn heads and excellent results have clearly validated the auction’s position as Australia’s headline breeding stock sale.
It was a bright day at Newmarket in more ways than one on Monday as the first-class Tyreel Stud dispersal highlighted the progressive format and dates of the new Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale.
A Fastnet Rock colt topped a superb weanling session selling to Belmont Bloodstock for $450,000 on the opening day of the streamlined 2014 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale.
Sunday 4 May marks the start of the 2014 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale in Sydney, with 219 weanlings catalogued to be offered on the opening day tomorrow.
Mick Price unearths a potential Crown Oaks contender in Adelaide with bargain-buy Cailin Miss leading home an all-Victorian trifecta in the $80,000 Listed Oaklands Plate (1600m) at Morphettville.
Jack Hill continued his excellent association with Under the Louvre at Caulfield on Saturday, guiding the talented three-year-old colt to his fifth win from eight starts in the $80,000 Charter Keck Cramer Handicap (1200m).