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.
Inglis Yearling Sale graduates took the spoils in four stakes races at Flemington on Super Saturday, a day that featured Group 1 wins by the progeny of sires that are well represented in the upcoming 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
The connections of Twilight Royale are in with a huge chance to take home the Inglis Triple Crown Bonus after the Bjorn Baker trained filly scored a tough win in the Group 2 VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes over 1400m at Flemington.
Brisbane trainer Kelly Schweida has been around long enough not to be seduced into thinking his lightly raced sprinter Better Than Ready will win Saturday's $1 million Newmarket Handicap.