OMEI Sword stormed into Golden Rose contention with an arrogant win at Royal Randwick on Saturday but whether she lines up in the Group 1 feature remains to be seen.
Omei Sword and Heatherly continued the great start to the new racing season of Inglis graduates winning the Group 2 ATC Silver Shadow Stakes and Listed MVRC Carlyon Stakes respectively in impressive fashion on Saturday.
Last start Caulfield placegetter Palace Tycoon has topped the 2016 Inglis August Thoroughbred Sale in Melbourne today selling for $90,000 from the draft of David Moodie’s Contract Racing.
The 2016 Inglis August Thoroughbred Sale will begin at 10:00am this Friday, with supplementary entries taking the total number of lots to be offered to 258.
Inglis, Australia’s most established thoroughbred auction house, will maintained its unbroken involvement in the China Equine Cultural Festival as a Gold Partner at the upcoming 2016 CECF Ordos.
Yarraman Park's star sire I Am Invincible kick started the new season with a stakes double at Caulfield as I Am a Star returned from a break to take the Group 3 MRC Quezette Stakes and Voodoo Lad scored a career best win in the Listed MRC Regal Roller Stakes.
The Snowdens continued their healthy affliation with the Group 3 Vain Stakes on Saturday, winning this year’s edition with unbeaten colt Russian Revolution, who led throughout.
The strongest catalogue of two-year-olds ever assembled in Australia is now online with 255 select juveniles to be showcased at the Inglis Ready2Race Sale in Sydney on Tuesday 4 October 2016.
As a brother to Group 1 Lightning Stakes heroine Snitzerland, much was expected of Sooboog, but the son of Snitzel has often been the bane of punters as well as owner Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum who shelled out $1.5 million to secure the chestnut as a yearling.
History was made at Randwick on Saturday when the new training partnership between Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott tasted their first success with exciting Snitzel colt Thronum carrying the Sun Stud colours to victory in the Listed ATC Rosebud.
The Hayes dynasty has its newest Flemington winner. Earlier this week Ben Hayes joined his father, Hall of Fame trainer David, and cousin Tom Dabernig in partnership and he hasn’t had to wait long for his first Melbourne winner.
Twin Hills, located 9km from Cootamundra and approximately 380km from Sydney and widely regarded as the finest thoroughbred stud in the region will be offered for sale this Spring by Inglis Rural Property.
185 lots have been received into the main catalogue for the 2016 Inglis August Thoroughbred Sale to be held on Friday 19 August in Melbourne. Supplementary entries will be accepted until Friday 12 August.