389 yearlings have been catalogued for the second Inglis Melbourne VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale, a 12% increase on last year’s inaugural offering. The 2014 auction will be held on 27 & 28 April at Oaklands.
There is a new date and format to headline Australia's thoroughbred breeding stock sales, with the modern streamlined Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale to be conducted in Sydney on 4, 5, 6 and 7 May 2014.
The $502,000 Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning (1000m) has lost none of its lustre after nominations closed today despite the race’s namesake being absent for the first time in three years.
An event not to be missed, the Inglis Sales grounds in Sydney and Melbourne will open its doors to the general public – equine lovers, long time owners, new into the game and those looking for a fun day out, as syndication companies’ parade acquired yearlings with shares available for sale.
The 2014 racing year started to sizzle on Saturday and yearlings catalogued for the upcoming Inglis Melbourne Premier and Australian Easter Yearling Sales were huge beneficiaries through the deeds of their stakes winning siblings and exceptional sires.
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.