ON PAGE 109 of Friday's Herald Sun there was a full-page ad of the like rarely, if ever, conjured up by the racing industry and presented in the nation's biggest-selling daily newspaper.
Entries for the 2010 Inglis Australian Racehorse Sale close tomorrow and as the carnival comes to a close, a number of new entries have been lodged, including Darley entering a quality draft.
It was billed as a match race but turned out as one horse race as the imperious Black Caviar kept her unbeaten record intact with a 4-length romp in Saturday's $750,000 Group 1 Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) at Flemington.
The EW Barker Trophy lived up to its wide-open race billing with a thrilling finish that saw forgotten giant Any Humour sneak up on the rails to bag his second Group success in the smart time of 1min 22.04secs for the 1400m trip on the Short Course.
Black Caviar shrugged off the only remaining anomaly on her scorecard when dominating the Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington today, continuing a great run for Inglis graduates in this year’s Global Sprint Challenge.
The form out of the $250,000 Inglis Banner from Moonee Valley held up strongly in today’s Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate, with Arctic Command leading home an Inglis trifecta.
Although the rain was falling and the sky grey, Rick Worthington’s smile said it all after his five-year-old gelding Whitefriars delivered a tough knock out blow to his rivals in the Group 2 Seppelt Salinger Stakes at Flemington on Derby day.
Flemington trainer Danny O’Brien says exciting colt Star Witness could be an international straight-track specialist after the three-year-old’s outstanding win in the Group I Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m).