'He wouldn't be a factory horse," Pat Webster said when asked about the troubled career of Thankgodyou'rehere, which runs in Saturday's Prime Minister's Cup at the Gold Coast.
The Russell Cameron-trained Delegance has claimed a huge pay day, picking up $50,000 on top of the first prize and other bonuses for winning the Inglis Bonus 1200 at Warrnambool.
Next week's inaugural 2-day 2011 Scone Race Carnival has more than racing up its sleeve; the HTBA Scone Yearling Sale also offering 2 days of horse sales for those on the lookout for the next Hot Danish.
Snippetson featured with a quinella in the juvenile maiden at Kembla on Tuesday, the winner a full brother-in-blood to brilliant Group I winner Absolut Glam.
The highly successful Inglis Australian Weanling and Bloodstock Sale, which has quickly established itself as one of the most important sales of its type in the southern hemisphere, will be held next month.
At Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday, Australian bred filly Igugu (3f Galileo x Zarinia, by Intikhab) made a once act affair of the Group II SA Oaks over 2450 metres, claiming the third leg of the Triple Tiara by a dominant five and three-quarter lengths.
Hawkesbury trainer Joan Pracey gave gun apprentice Josh Adams his start in racing and he repaid her yesterday by riding Upstacker to her biggest win in racing.