The start of the 96th annual Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is only a month away and if statistics are anything to go by anyone serious about racing at the highest level cannot afford to miss it.
The main catalogue is out and supplementary entries are closing for the 2012 Inglis Melbourne March Thoroughbred Sale, which will be held at Oaklands on Friday March 16.
One of the thoroughbred industry's most prestigious awards is the Luxbet/Inglis Best Presented Draft, acknowledged annually at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.
Might And Power’s relation Mosheen may have been the headline act, but other Inglis graduates purchased for as low as $1,250 also recorded valuable stakes wins around Australia today.
Mighty three-year-old filly Mosheen has defied the extreme outside barrier and a deteriorating track at Flemington to win the Group One VRC Australian Guineas (1600m) in impressive style.
Champion two-year-old Anabandana is the latest Group One winner to be entered for the 2012 edition of the Southern Hemisphere’s leading breeding stock sale, the Inglis Australian Easter Broodmare Sale.
The four day 2012 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale came to an end at Oaklands this afternoon, with Session Two’s offering adding another $2.8million to the sales overall gross of $34.8million.
Session One of the 2012 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale came to a close at Oaklands today, with the increases in the overall average and gross recorded for the fourth consecutive year.
The positive bidding experienced early at the 2012 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale continued into Day Two, with a colt by Fastnet Rock stealing the show late in the day when selling to Demi O’Byrne and James Bester for $500,000.