Golden Slipper winner Polar Success featured at Randwick on Wednesday with a smart winner when the John O’Shea trained Polarmore saluted at his second start.
Trainer Michael Freedman continued his successful run in feature races in 2013 by capturing the Group 3 $200,000 Saas Fee Stakes over 1400m on Sunday with Holy Empire.
Emerging star Holy Empire capped off a big weekend for Inglis graduates when winning the Group 3 Saas Fee Stakes at Kranji on Sunday, joining Fawkner and Diamond Earth as the winners of the weekend’s feature races in Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney respectively.
Australian bred, sold, trained and owned galloper Fawkner claimed the world’s richest 2400m handicap race on Saturday, the $2.5 million Group 1 MRC Caulfield Cup.
The winning margin was only a nose in the City Tattersalls Inglis Bonus at Randwick, but it was enough for Best Case to secure a $100,000 Inglis Race Series Bonus.
In the twenty times that the Group Two Schillaci Stakes has been run as a part of the Caulfield Cup carnival, it has been won by some of racing’s true stars.
New South Wales artist Sonja Bowden has been crowned the 2013 Inglis Equine Art Prize People’s Choice winner for her colour pencil artwork ‘Grand Sire’.
An emerging force in global bloodstock, Qatar Racing enjoyed success at Wangaratta on Monday when the Peter Moody trained Northern Meteor filly Shooting Sally won with the proverbial 'leg in the air'.
Lightly raced Stratum gelding Unpretentious has been off the scene for 47 weeks, but was turned out in top order at Caulfield on Saturday to win the Group II MRC Schillaci Stakes.