The start of the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is less than two weeks away and many offerings have received recent pedigree updates, which is very timely with entire drafts available for inspection at Newmarket from next Tuesday.
The second leg of the 2013 Aushorse Golden Horseshoe Series, the S$90,000 Inglis Australian Easter Sale Stakes, was conducted over 1000m at Kranji in Singapore on Sunday, with only a short head separating Tashi and Rikioh on the line.
The opportunity to aim higher awaits the connections of High Esteem after the three-year-old put on an impressive performance over 1700m at Caulfield on Saturday to claim a $100,000 Inglis Race Series Bonus.
Racehorses were in good demand at the 2013 Inglis Melbourne March Thoroughbred Sale today, just as a graduate of the Oaklands sale ring claimed the $170,000 Albury Gold Cup in the same afternoon.
Twelve months ago Gai Waterhouse travelled Fat Al 550kms to claim the Myer Albury Guineas. Today the 1400m three-year-old event and lucrative Inglis Race Series Bonus that goes with it was won by the aptly named Road Trippin trained by Stephen Theodore.
The Queen of world racing, Black Caviar, equalled Kingston Town’s Australian record of 14 Group 1 victories when she dashed to an effortless win in the MVRC William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
84 supplementary entries have been added to this Friday’s bumper Melbourne March Thoroughbred Sale, which gets underway at the earlier time of 10:30am at Oaklands.
GLAMOUR filly Snitzerland is one step away from a breakthrough Group 1 success, while improving two-year-old All The Talk booked himself a start in the Golden Slipper as Inglis graduates landed a stakes treble at Warwick Farm today.
The catalogue is now available online for the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Broodmare Sale which will be conducted at Newmarket in Sydney on April 16, 17 and 18.
The highest priced Southern Hemisphere bred yearling from the first crop of English Derby winner New Approach (IRE) was a stunning colt from Lute (NZ) that made a winning debut in Japan last weekend.
She is stepping up into open company for the first time but Mick Price is confident that Loveyamadly will acquit herself well in the Listed Abell Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night.