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.
The Victoria Derby winning trainer-jockey partnership will be reunited in the Inglis Classic when Hugh Bowman rides the Robbie Laing-trained Boomwaa in the $250,000 race.
Yearlings to be offered at the 2014 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book are set to start arriving at Newmarket from next Tuesday, 14 January.
Inglis will be offering repossessed two-year-olds by proven sires Savabeel, Charge Forward and Shamardal after Day One of the 2014 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book.
Champion trainer Mike de Kock is no stranger to success with Aussie bred horses and produced Flying Spur gelding Mushreq to win the Listed Singspiel Stakes at Meydan in Dubai overnight.
Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse won a Golden Slipper with a Corumbene Stud bred son of More Than Ready (USA) in Sebring and now she’d like to win a Blue Diamond with a Corumbene Stud bred filly by the same sire.