The March Thoroughbred Sale in Melbourne today achieved an outstanding clearance rate of 93 per cent, up on last year’s already impressive rate of 90 per cent.
Bjorn Baker’s clever targeting of Inglis Race Series events continued to pay dividends today when his athletic filly Rosaleisha (Testa Rossa x Galeisha) took out the Albury Guineas over 1400m, securing along with it a $50,000 Inglis Bonus, more than doubling the total prizemoney for the race.
A flood of entries in the last fortnight has further established the 2016 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale in the first week of May as the perfect opportunity for vendors. Farms wishing to offer their premium broodmares and weanlings alongside the quality reductions and dispersals confirmed for the Sydney sale must submit their entries before 5pm this Thursday 17 March.
A capacity field of 16 is set to line up in the world’s richest juvenile race at Rosehill Gardens this Saturday and from Sheikhs to syndicates everyone has had the opportunity to buy into a runner in the $3.5 million ATC Golden Slipper Stakes.
70 supplementary entries, including Group 2 winner Vilanova, have been added to the catalogue for the Inglis March Thoroughbred Sale that will start at 11:00am this Friday 18 March 2016 at Oaklands, Melbourne.
In a brilliant day of racing across the country, Inglis graduates were responsible for charging to victory in stakes races at every level, winning a Group 1, a Group 3 and a Listed race at Flemington, and a Group 2 race at Rosehill, with several providing valuable updates to their siblings' pedigrees ahead of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.
“Be not afraid of greatness” when searching through the catalogue of the [Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale](http://inglis.com.au/sales/info/2016+Australian+Easter+Yearling+Sale), for outstanding results with Easter graduates continue to be achieved across a range of budgets by trainers, syndicators, owners, agents and pinhookers.
Missing the start may have proved a blessing in disguise for promising Choisir colt Defcon, who cast off maiden status with a last to first win in the Group III Canberra Black Opal Stakes on Sunday.
Hong Kong held home turf as Dashing Fellow (124lb) made all the running and earned his first win in pattern company, taking the HKG3 Hong Kong Macau Trophy (Handicap) this afternoon, Sunday, 6 March, at Sha Tin Racecourse.
With three weeks until yearlings arrive at Newmarket, stakes wins on both sides of the Tasman Sea today highlighted the outstanding opportunities available for all buyers at the upcoming Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, to be held on 5, 6 and April.
The dam of Blue Diamond Stakes winner Extreme Choice, carrying a full relation to Mick Price’s Group 1 winning two-year-old, has been confirmed among the Bell River Thoroughbred’s unreserved dispersal of mares at the 2016 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale in Sydney.
The 2016 Inglis VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale, to be held at Inglis Oaklands Complex on 17 and 18 April, features 286 yearlings, with most lots eligible for more than $20 million of prize money and bonuses across Victoria’s world-class incentive schemes – Super VOBIS and VOBIS Gold.