Bart Cummings notched up an amazing 260th Group One win when Dariana put aside her dramas from last week to outdistance her rivals in the Queensland Derby at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Inglis graduates shone in each of the three Group 1 races at Eagle Farm today, with Black Piranha providing a timely pointer for this month’s Australian Weanling and Breeding Stock Sale.
Figures released today by Racing NSW show that since the BOBS Double-Up option was introduced in January 2006, $10million has been pumped directly into horse ownership.
Darley based Dubawi (IRE) is currently the leading second season sire in the UK and Ireland this year and posted his second Australian winner when the Patinack Farm owned colt Inadequate scored at Canterbury on Wednesday.
Winner of the Group One AJC Doncaster Handicap in 2008, Triple Honour bounced back to top form to capture the Group Two QTC Eagle Farm Cup in Brisbane on Saturday continuing an outstanding recent run of success for horses sold by Widden Stud.
First season sire Domesday has come up with a real rising star during the Brisbane Winter Carnival with the Chris Waller trained colt Pressday claiming a powerful win in the Group Two QTC Sires’ Produce Stakes over 1400 metres at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Another Chris Waller Group race double and a return to form by Peter Moody’s top filly Set For Fame again had Inglis graduates shining in Queensland today.
Blue Diamond winner Reward for Effort has been a forgotten horse this year and while his peers have been snapped up for stud duties left right and centre by various farms, he has been battling injury with some light now seen at the end of the tunnel.
As a dual Group One winner of more than $1,6 million in prizemoney, star mare Zarita has been a great favourite with many punters and racegoers, her owners this week deciding to draw the curtains on a wonderful racing career with her next engagement a trip to Coolmore Stud.
Caulfield trainer Mick Price has refused to get carried away after Our Baby Bonus took his winning streak to four after scoring in the Adapt Australia Handicap (1000m) at Moonee Valley.