ALBURY trainer Brett Cavanough is so enthusiastic about the chances of his boom two-year-old Bossdon City winning next month's Blue Diamond Stakes that he has valued the youngster at $600,000.
Think Big Stud were closely watching the Listed Hobart Guineas in Tasmania on Sunday with the result of keen interest to Lot 367, a Danewin filly they will offer at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on Monday afternoon.
The 2011 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale began on a buoyant note today, with the first session average up by more than 5 per cent on figures from 12 months ago.
Chris Waller left it until late in the day but Sikka did the job to stretch the trainer's remarkable run of winners at his home track to 21 consecutive Rosehill Saturday meetings.
Bookmakers believe Testa Rossa filly Pane In The Glass can go one better than her sire and win this year’s Blue Diamond after she made a one-act affair of today’s $250,000 Inglis Classic.
TAB Sportsbet has assessed Saturday’s Inglis 2YO Classic (1200m) as a race in two with Pane In The Glass and Pure Force cornering more than 85 percent of the opening market.
Third time has proved lucky for Zenyatta as the brilliant mare was voted USA 2010 Horse of the Year on Monday eveing at the Fontainebluea Hotel in Miami Beach.
Yearlings have arrived for next week’s Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale, with a number of important updates continuing to roll in since the catalogue went to press.
Easter purchase Viva Ocho maintained his unbeaten status on the all weather surface with a dominant win over 1500 metres at Taipa on Saturday, and will now be set for $1 million Dollar Group 1 Macau Guineas, the first leg of the Triple Crown to be run on February 13.
To the astonishment of nobody, Sacred Kingdom repeated his 2010 victory in the HKG1 Kent and Curwen Centenary Sprint Cup, first leg of the Hong Kong Speed Series, and in doing so reasserted his Hong Kong sprinting supremacy at Sha Tin today.