Kia Ora Stud have been on a roll of late with a stream of winners emerging from the Hunter Valley based farm, the latest to salute being two year-old filly Roczinta, who scored at Durbanvill ein South Africa on Wednesday.
Exceed And Excel confirmed his lead at the top of the table for siring individual 2YO winners in Australia this season with his 20th juvinle winner on Wednesday.
At the start of August last year, few punters would have been prepared to back Lonhro to win the Australian General Sires Championship, but with just over a month of the season to go the former Horse of the Year has it in the bag.
CHRIS WALLER entered exalted company yesterday when first-starter Velrosso won the opening race at Rosehill to give the trainer his 100th metropolitan winner for the season.
Fairytale filly Yosei ended the season on a high for Inglis graduates when upsetting odds-on favourite Beaded in the Group 1 Tatt’s Tiara at Eagle Farm today.
Multiple city winning and stakes placed mare Mont Fleuri was the star turn as the 2011 Inglis Weanling and Bloodstock Sale came to a close at Newmarket today.
An Encosta De Lago half-brother to former pin-up mare Hot Danish was the headline act at the opening session of today’s Inglis Australian Weanling and Breeding Stock Sale.