SYDNEY Turf Club is set to trial at least two Friday night race meetings at Canterbury over summer as a precursor to a permanent switch from Thursday nights.
Azeri, the American Horse of the Year, three times champion race mare and record female money earner has a close relation in the Inglis Summer Sale on Friday December 4.
The Inglis Classic Sale was in the limelight at Turffontein in South Africa at the weekend, with a new Group winning graduate and an important G2 winning update for January’s 2010 sale.
Mossman gelding Travaldo gave his big team of owners a huge thrill when he staved off several challengers to land a $50,000 Inglis Race Series Bonus at Canberra today.
Star Ripper made it three wins on end when scoring a strong win over 2400m on the Kensington track and he will now be given the chance to emulate his illustrious dam Dane Ripper in stakes company.
Australian bred three year-old dominated at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday filling the quinella in both the Group Two Vodacom Dingaans and the Group Three Gomma Gomma Fillies Mile.
The next bonus in the $2.6M Inglis Race Series for 2008 graduates goes on the line at Caulfield next Saturday, December 5, with nominations closing Monday morning.
SOME of the country's biggest thoroughbred studs are leading a protest against a coal-mining company that wants to operate in the breeding heartland of the Hunter Valley.
The Inglis Sydney Classic Sale, source of no less than 21 individual Australian stakes winners last season, will be held at Newmarket on January 24 and 25, 2010, with the 522-strong catalogue now online.
The Cathay Pacific International Sprint Trial HK Gr 2 at Sha Tin on Sunday provided a great lead-up to the main event in December, with the Australian bred up and comer Happy Zero proving too good for established sprint star Sacred Kingdom.