Young trainer Cameron Crockett recorded the most significant victory of his career to date when Barbass took out the $100,000 Inglis Challenge over 1100m at Scone Race Club.

The Inglis Guineas, Inglis Challenge and Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale will feature brightly among the Scone Horse Festival that peaks this weekend with the Scone Cup Carnival.

ONE of the best younger sires in Australia at this time is Nicconi, a handsome former leading sprinter by the Danzig sire Bianconi (USA) who stands at the Widden Stud.

Having proved himself over 1400 metres in the Hawkesbury Guineas, Spill The Beans gets a crack at another rich race over the distance at Scone.

Like anyone watching Abbey Marie’s commanding performance in Saturday’s Schweppes Australasian Oaks at Morphettville, Peter Anastasiou was mightily impressed.

For the second consecutive year the Inglis Great Southern Sale at Oaklands, Melbourne has been extended to include a fourth day.

In a rare feat, Abbey Marie rewarded her trainer Mick Kent’s confidence in a superb performance, going one better than her sister Absolutely to claim the $400,000 Group 1 SAJC Oaks over 2000m. The third start for the filly highlighted a great day for Inglis graduates around the country.

89% clearance and a 48% jump in gross was achieved by Book Two of the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on another glorious Autumn day at Newmarket. Trainers and syndicators from across the Eastern Seaboard competed for more than 80 yearlings, with the top price of $42,000 being reached by Lot 65, a son of Australian Derby winner Roman Emperor out of Group 1-placed Miss Meliss. The colt was offered by Princes Farm, the sale’s leading vendor by average and one of 16 vendors to achieve 100% clearance through the ring.

Inglis graduates stepped out today claiming victories at both the Wagga Cup Carnival in New South Wales and the Warrnambool May Racing Carnival in Victoria.

A sensational four straight days of trade across weanlings, race fillies and broodmares has finished on a high in Sydney, with total turnover for the 2016 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale in excess of $33.8m, the best result in six years, with the overall clearance 86%.

Buyer competition continued strongly on the third day of selling at the 2016 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale at Newmarket, building the clearance rate to an impressive 88% with local, interstate and overseas investors all adding to a diverse buying bench.

102 yearlings, 11 broodmares and over 30 racing stock will be offered this Friday 6 May across the Classic Yearling Sale Book Two and Autumn Thoroughbred Sales in Sydney.

The much talked about 2016 Inglis Broodmare catalogue brought out a red hot buying bench with 90% of lots sold on Day Two of the Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale, headlined by the unreserved dispersals of Bell View Park Stud and Bell River Thoroughbreds.

The Australian national anthem was played across Sha Tin this afternoon following the stunning last to first victory of Chautauqua in the Group 1 HKJC Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) ahead of fellow Inglis graduates Lucky Bubbles and Strathmore.