A mare with one of the hottest current pedigrees in the Australian Stud Book – in foal to sire sensation Proisir – headlines a quality catalogue for the Inglis Digital July (Early) Online Sale.
Royal Ascot glory – and a chance to defend his Everest crown – lay ahead for champion sprinter Nature Strip (Nicconi) following a record-equalling third consecutive win in today’s G1 TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick.
Trainer David Hayes harbours Group I ambitions for Forgive And Forget following an impressive debut win in Saturday’s Carbine Club 2YO Plate (1000m) at Flemington.
$2.4 million Inglis Triple Crown Bonus aspirations go on the line this Saturday at the Scone Race Club with Twilight Royale set for the biggest winner’s cheque in New South Wales racing history if she can salute in the Inglis Guineas.
Australia’s top rated three-year-old colt All Too Hard collected another Group 1 victory at Caulfield on Saturday, adding the weight-for-age C.F. Orr Stakes over 1400m to his Caulfield Guineas win earlier this season.
The positive signs from earlier in the year continued into the 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale at Newmarket, with the opening session of the sale returning $31,860,000 in gross receipts with the $248,906 average up 13 per cent on last year’s overall figures.
Graduates from the top end of Easter have flagged their spring carnival ambitions, with today’s highly impressive Moonee Valley winner Time Thief becoming the fifth Inglis $2million yearling to win since the start of the new racing season.
If one was to sit down and write a Press Release on the current updates to the 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Easter Yearling Sale, it could easily turn into a thesis.