PETER Moody's brilliant filly Black Caviar resumes at Moonee Valley on Saturday as the trainer prepares to split his outstanding team of three-year-olds between Melbourne and Sydney for the spring.
Kicked off by in-form Choisir colt Starspangledbanner, Inglis graduates enjoyed a stakes treble in Melbourne and Sydney today as the build up to the forthcoming spring carnival gathered momentum.
Highlighted by a 94% clearance and a big crowd in attendance at the Oaklands complex, the Melbourne August Thoroughbred Sale drew to a close this evening, with almost $3million traded across the two days.
Stakes winning Catbird mare Burgeis highlighted the opening day of the Melbourne August Thoroughbred Sale, when selling to James Bester Bloodstock for $310,000.
Caulfield trainer Peter Moody is in an enviable position. Discussing his spring prospects on Sport 927 it was hard to imagine that he was not wearing a broad grin, such is the embarrassment of riches he appears to enjoy.
Inglis Classic winner Fear No Other will make a last-ditch bid to qualify for the $1 million Golden Rose when he returns to Sydney for The Run To The Rose at Rosehill on Saturday.
AUSTRALIAN-BRED horses featured prominently at the 2009 Mercedes Thoroughbred Racing Awards on Friday night reflecting their dominance at New Zealand’s top level of racing last season.
THERE'S nothing like thoroughbred horsepower to set the heart racing. Off-track dramas continue with bitter battles on several fronts. Racing's financial income streams, club mergers and such are creating chasms, but not to worry. The good horses are on the way back.
The easy win of four year-old Chilled at Eagle Farm on Saturday again highlighted the potential of blending the blood of our two champion sires as he is by Redoute’s Choice from a daughter of Encosta de Lago, the same cross that produced recent South African Group One winner Musir.
Victorian invader Midnight Mustang gave the locals a galloping lesson when he powered home under Brad Rawiller to capture the Group 3 Spring Gully Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday.
Outstanding racemare BURGEIS is the latest stakeswinning mare to be entered in the supplementary section for next weeks 2 day Inglis Melbourne August Thoroughbred Sale which begins on Thursday August 13.
Stakes winner, HUISKES, is one of a number of quality supplementary entries for the upcoming Inglis Melbourne August Thoroughbred Sale, for which entries close this Thursday August 6.