A pair of explosive 2YO fillies, a young sprinter with untapped ability and another Inglis Digital success story announced their presence in the big league on the eve of the autumn carnival with impressive black type victories.
A timely black-type performance in a Tasmanian 2YO feature on Sunday has helped propel broodmare Miss Cooper (Medaglia d’Oro) to top lot honours in the Inglis Digital January (Late) Online Sale.
A Caulfield Cup, a Cox Plate, an Everest and an Inglis Millennium.
These are the tantalising goals of the four Inglis-sold Stakes winners from today’s big afternoon of racing in Australia and New Zealand.
The Classic Yearling Sale’s reputation has soared in recent years and yesterday’s G3 Blue Diamond Preview winner Dosh is doing her bit to ensure that continues this autumn.
The opportunity to “buy Wednesday and go around in a Stakes race six days later’’ proved too much for Esker Lodge’s Darren Dance to ignore, tonight purchasing a 49% share in Never Again on the Inglis Digital platform.
The first Inglis Digital Online Auction of 2021 has become the third consecutive sale to gross more than $2.3 million and another excellent clearance rate of 84%.
With inspections for Inglis’ first yearling sale of the year – the Classic Sale – only a week away, Inglis graduates again came to the fore over the Australia Day long weekend winning six Stakes races in three countries.
Trainer John Sadler well remembers his first success in the Group 1 William Reid Stakes — 1994 was a very good year. Sadler saluted with Lady Jakeo in what was then known as the Australia Day Stakes (run in January) and in December his apprentice jockey son, Tom, was not born.
When Vasko Ognenovski entered the Inglis and Herald Sun Win A Share In A Racehorse competition in 2014 he could never have imagined that less than a year later he would own a share in the Blue Diamond favourite. Ognenovski won a 10 per cent share in exciting two-year-old filly Fontiton, along with two years of training and insurance after she was sold at the 2014 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.
Australian bred racehorses put on a parade at home and aboard on the Australia Day long weekend with Inglis graduates notching up stakes victories in Melbourne, Sydney, South Africa and Hong Kong.
Australian bred and Inglis sold speedster Amber Sky had a successful Australia Day on Sunday. The four-year-old bolted away with the Hong Kong Group 1 Kent & Curwen Centenary Cup over 1000m at Sha Tin.
Golden Slipper winner Sebring posted his third winner when exciting filly Australia Day blitzed her rivals to win as she pleased on debut at Morphettville on Saturday.
Racing Victoria (RV) has today unveiled the VOBIS Gold Carat, the fifth lucrative feature to be run during the inaugural VOBIS Gold premier race series.
Some 64 two-year-olds remain in the running for the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield on February 25 after today's deadline for third declarations.
THERE are four races on Black Caviar's agenda, starting with tonight's Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley and hopefully ending with her meeting the Queen after the Golden Jubilee at Royal Ascot in June, but everything else is up in the air.
Caulfield trainer Mick Price has his eyes on Group One glory in the coming months with Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale purchases Malasun and Instiniction after the pair completed a race-to-race stakes double on Australia Day in Melbourne.
Norman Waymouth is shooting for the top shelf with Mister Milton, who broke his maiden status with a decisive win in the John Moule Handicap at Caulifled.
Four-time Golden Slipper winning trainer Clarry Conners rates the fillies as the benchmark heading towards April's $3.5 million race. Two-year-old stakes racing swings into gear in Sydney this weekend with Conners to start his main Golden Slipper hope, Satin Shoes, in the Listed Widden Stakes (1100m) for fillies at Randwick.
It seems champion Melbourne trainer Peter Moody’s biggest problem is how to keep is plethora of high-class horses apart in races during the upcoming Autumn
Carnival, writes Brad Waters.