A fantastic opening day of the Easter Yearling Sale saw a remarkable 14 lots realise $1m or more as buyers stepped up to defy global economic trends and ensure Easter remains in a league of its own.
The final breeze ups ahead of Tuesday’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale were this morning completed at Warwick Farm, with the final 31 juveniles put through their paces in difficult conditions.
A “running machine’’ and “the most straight forward horse ever’’ set the track alight with scintillating times during an exciting Ready2Race breeze up session at Cambridge.
The build-up to next month’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale continues to gather momentum, with times and video footage of last week’s breeze up sessions at Warwick Farm and Eagle Farm now available online.
The countdown is on to the sale that provided last year’s Golden Slipper quinella, with the final touches being put on Riverside Stables ahead of next month’s Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.
The 2018 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale will be the biggest in the company’s history with 800 horses catalogued for the first ever auction at Riverside Stables.
Graham and Steve Brown’s Hunter Valley based Kitchwin Hills will head to the 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Easter Yearling Sale with their largest ever Easter yearling draft, a draft that has Stud Manager Michael Malone and the rest of the Kitchwin Hills ‘champing at the bit’ about the prospects of their draft.