Swettenham graduate Black Caviar is off the scene until the New Year and her return will be the perfect launching pad for the stud’s consignment at the 2012 Inglis Melbourne Premier yearling sale.
Promising gallopers So Swift and Under The Eiffel marked themselves down as horses to follow next autumn after making the step to Group level for their patient connections at Sandown this afternoon.
Black Caviar again stole the show on the final day of the Flemington Spring Carnival, where gallopers with siblings heading to Inglis yearling sales in 2012 recorded some impressive black type victories.
Progressive Reset gelding Fawkner provided the powerful Lloyd Williams team with their first winner at the Flemington carnival when he cruised clear for an easy victory in the first event on Oaks Day.
Scone trainer Paul Messara arrived at Flemington with his share of nerves but recent stable acquisition Ortensia proved his fears unfounded with a decisive success in Thursday's Listed G H Munn Stakes (1100m) at Flemington.
Talented three-year-old filly Mosheen broke through for her much deserved maiden Group 1 win today with a dominant display in the 151st running of the VRC Oaks (2500m).
For the second year in a row Australian bred horses starred at China’s Flat Racing Championships in Wuhan over the weekend, taking out four of the five thoroughbred races.
IT TAKES something special for a crowd estimated at 105,000 to collectively hush. But hush they did for as long as three minutes at Flemington yesterday as judge Bill Quin pored over the photo finish between Dunaden and Red Cadeaux following the 151st Melbourne Cup.
Max Hinton had success with his mare Sophie Princess at the 2002 Melbourne Cup Carnival, nearly a decade later he snagged a Group 3 race with her daughter Sophie's Spirit which won the Herald Sun Stakes.