Four time Golden Slipper winning trainer Clarry Conners said Georgette Silk is as good as any two-year-old he has trained after the filly cruised home to an easy win in the Listed Widden Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
Despite the scratching of hot favourite Black Caviar, the Melbourne Premier Sale still shone brightly in today’s William Reid Stakes, with ultra-consistent Turffontein landing his second Group 1 prize.
The catalogue for the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale has now been released, as updates continue to roll in for the southern hemisphere’s premier yearling auction.
Acquiring a share in a commercial stallion these days is an expensive business, and most often out of reach of many breeders and owners with most commercial stallion prospects either owned by or the subject of, massive offers from the major farms upon Group success on the track.
The ACT racing industry is mounting a public campaign in a bid to overturn the ACT Government's intention to deny clubs a share of revenue raised from race fields fees paid by wagering operators.
When talented filly Psychologist powered away to score a scintillating win in the Group Three MRC Blue Diamond Prelude on Saturday she wrote her name into the history books as the very first stakes-winner to carry a double cross of champion sire Danehill.
The parade of Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale Living Legend Fields of Omagh and his stable mates, Silent Witness & Might and Power, will be a highlight of the inaugural Melbourne Premier Open Day to be held at Inglis' Oakland's Complex on Sunday Feb 28.
We know it was a Sale juvenile maiden over 1200 metres run on a very slow track on a Sunday, but when the winner is by Encosta de Lago, is trained by David Hayes and scores by seven we figure it’s worth a story.
Craig Williams further cemented his relationship with Patinack Farm with a win on the highly promising No Evidence Needed in the Sandown Park (UK) Handicap.
Inglis graduates are set to extend their recent Blue Diamond dominance, following the ultra impressive wins by Easter babies Psychologist and Beneteau in the Group 3 Preludes at Caulfield today.
Australian bred colt Musir started his Dubai campaign on the right note when taking out the UAE Guineas Trial at Meydan on Thursday for leading trainer Mike de Kock.
There have been suggestions that an Australia-wide industry tax of five per cent be placed on stallion fees. Graeme Kelly sourced industry opinion on this subject.