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.
The leading local vendor at last week's inaugural Inglis Ready 2 Race sale, and second overall on aggregate while achieving a 100% clearance rate, was Muskoka Farm, the beautifully appointed pre-training and spelling establishment on the banks of the Hawkesbury River.
Gutsy filly Se Sauver defied a slugging finish, a quick-fire but unsuccessful protest and fears from her trainer and jockey that she had been beaten on the post to win the Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes.
One of the more spectacular performances on a champagne day of racing at Flemington came when Molto Bene stormed home from last to claim the Listed Headquarters Tavern Stakes (1410m).