Dean Hawkins of Wentwood Grange couldn’t believe what he was witnessing when their Ghaiyyath colt sold for a sale-high $625,000 on the third and final day of the Classic Yearling Sale at Riverside this afternoon.
Unbeaten filly Well Written (Written Tycoon) produced one of the most explosive performances seen on a New Zealand racetrack in years when winning today’s $1.5m Karaka Million 3YO at Ellerslie.
It was a fairytale result in today’s $400,000 Listed Inglis Nursery at Randwick as the $1250 Inglis Digital bargain buy Where’s The Circus (Trapeze Artist) and his “battling trainer’’ Paul Murray defeated some of the industry’s biggest players on the biggest stage.
Today’s Inglis Digital sale-topper Post Impressionist will be targeted at next year’s Warrnambool Cup after selling to Victorian owner Shane Morrissy for $225,000.
Scott Darby believes today’s Inglis Digital sale-topper Amazing Eagle (Capitalist) can continue along the same successful mould as the likes of former online Darby acquisitions Robusto, Caballus and Imperial Force and progress on to become a future racetrack star.
Inglis Digital superstar Half Yours (St Jean) will look to become just the 13th horse in history to claim the Caulfield/Melbourne Cup double after comprehensively winning the first leg – the $5m G1 Caulfield Cup – today.
Progeny of the likes of Toronado, Exceed and Excel, Harry Angel, Zoustar and Ole Kirk were amongst the standout performers from breeze up sessions conducted this week in the lead up to the Inglis Ready2Race Sale on October 16, footage of which is now available online.
The G1-winning 2YO Velocious (Written Tycoon) tonight became the second most expensive filly ever sold on Inglis Digital, realising $1.625m to the bid of Yulong.
Entries for the 2026 Inglis Select Yearling Sales Series – which will be headlined by the presence of the highly anticipated Snitzel x Winx colt at the Easter Sale – are now open.
The impact of the recent success in Hong Kong of horses sourced on Inglis Digital was in evidence today, with the top lot and the third top lot bought by Hong Kong-based owners.
The most successful Inglis Breeding Stock Sales Series in history today concluded with a strong renewal of the Great Southern Weanling Sale at Oaklands.
Outstanding mare Joliestar (Zoustar) secured a third career G1 victory with a staggering come-from-behind victory in today’s Kingsford Smith Cup at Eagle Farm.
A new record price for the Australian Weanling Sale was set at Riverside today when a Stay Inside x Sheidel filly offered by Noorilim Park sold for $650,000.
Well-related 4YO Reasonable (Justify) topped today’s Inglis Digital March (Late) Online Sale, purchased to visit exciting young stallion-in-waiting and Inglis Easter Yearling Sale graduate Switzerland.
It was a day of fairytales for Inglis graduates at Caulfield today as a $14,000 Premier Sale buy won the $1m Showdown and wonder mare Pride of Jenni returned to racing with an emphatic victory in the Peter Young Stakes.
Outstanding mare Joliestar (Zoustar) scored an explosive win in today’s G1 Newmarket Hcp at Flemington on a day Inglis graduates won eight Stakes races on both sides of the Tasman.