The decision by Hawkesbury trainer Joan Pracey to chase the great prizemoney on offer in the Inglis Race Series paid big dividends 1,000 kms away today, with Upstacker winning the $100,000 Inglis Trophy (1400m) at Sale in Victoria.
The tremendous run of Group 1 victories for graduates of Inglis’ Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale continued at Moonee Valley today, as Pinker Pinker strode away with Australia’s weight-for-age championship, the $3million G1 MVRC Tatts WS Cox Plate.
Another top juvenile by Inglis graduate Choisir was unearthed in the two-year-old event at Moonee Valley early on Cox Plate Day, with the Anthony Cummings trained Diamond Earth holding off all challenges in the $250,000 Microflite Helicopters Inglis Banner (1000m).
Derby favourite Manawanui and Australia’s darling Black Caviar made it all look so easy at Group 2 level at Moonee Valley today, scoring a race-to-race double for Inglis graduates in Mitchelton Wines Vase (2040m) and Schweppes Stakes (1200m).
The lucrative Inglis Race Series ventures to the picturesque Sale Turf Club this Sunday for the running of the $100,000 Turnbull Toyota Inglis Trophy, which will be preceded by the auctioning of an unbroken two-year-old colt by Swettenham Stud stallion Host.
Cox Plate Day at Moonee Valley this Saturday will kick off with the fourth running of the $250,000 Microflite Helicopters Inglis Banner (1000m), which has drawn an excellent field of 14 runners.
Mike Moroney has a great opportunity to add to his dual Victoria Derby wins following the strong win by Inglis Easter graduate Sabrage at Caulfield today.
Jack has been in this nursing home for some years after suffering a stroke will at work at Newmarket. Jack will be greatly missed by family, friends, staff at William Inglis and clients of the firm.
This Friday will be the last opportunity to submit entries for the 2011 Inglis Australian Racehorse Sale, to be held on Tuesday October 25 at Oaklands, Melbourne.
Heavyweight jockey John Powell saw his hard work to shave off the extra kilos to ride debutant The Hustler at 53kg pay off on Friday night in Singapore.
BLACK Caviar, the marauding mare Australians have developed an insatiable craving for, returns to racing's main menu tomorrow, striving to equal the record 14-win streak of legendary Phar Lap.
TAKING on monumental racetrack assignments has never bothered Caulfield horseman Rick Hore-Lacy. Not the way for a man with 80 per cent of a law degree to dodge headline-makers Helmet, Smart Missile and Manawanui in a cracking Caulfield Guineas tomorrow.