Inglis Digital will celebrate the New Year with a huge January online catalogue, consisting of more than double the amount of entries compared to January 2018.
It’s been 12 months since the launch of the Inglis Digital Monthly Online Auctions and with 164 entries, the May 2018 catalogue is the second-largest offering since the inaugural online sale.
Inglis graduates’ domination of the big races at Flemington in Melbourne Cup week continued today when Malaguerra won the Group 1 Darley Classic (1200m) and Jessy Belle claimed the Group 2 Matriarch Stakes (2000m).
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.
Extreme Choice’s favouritism for the Blue Diamond firmed while fellow Inglis Classic graduates Spill The Beans and Puritan also scored at Group 3 level today, underlining the strength of the Sydney sale that kicks off this evening.
Newcastle trainer Kris Lees captured his second Inglis Classic race victory today when his filly Twist Tops scored in the $250,000 black type event at Randwick.
Inglis Classic graduate Hellbent (I Am Invincible x Volkaspray) rewarded the confidence of both the public and his young trainer Kurt Goldman today, when he showed an exceptional turn of foot to dominate the 15-strong field in the inaugural $250,000 Inglis Dash at Flemington over 1100m.
Randwick trainer John Sargent and Broadmeadow-based Kris Lees have succumbed to the dangling $250,000 carrot in sending their juveniles to Moonee Valley on Saturday for the Inglis Banner (1000m).
Some of the exceptional two and three-year-olds to be sold at The Star Ready2Race Sale have begun arriving at Inglis’ Newmarket Complex in Sydney. Official inspections will begin Sunday 4 October.
THE barrier draw will determine which side of $2 Choisir colt DEFCON will start in tomorrow week’s time-honoured Breeders’ Plate at Randwick after a brilliant trial win at the official 2YO Heats at Randwick on Monday morning.
A Newcastle-trained pair of fillies have given notice that Beneteau's second and final crop is set to match the impact made by his first runners last season.
Following successful breeze up days at both Canterbury in New South Wales and Cranbourne in Victoria, and a further four three-year-olds completing their official barrier trials, video footage of each lot to be offered at The Star Ready2Race Sale is now available for viewing online and on the Inglis Sales iPad App.
Tatoosh wasn't the sort of horse Paul Perry thought would get to a race like Saturday's Rosebud. "He was always nice and a horse that was going to win his races," Perry offered. "But to get to a black-type race at Randwick, I wouldn't have thought that."
Which sires are more likely to succeed than others? It's a question broodmare owners ask themselves at this time of year as they seek to shorten the odds in their quest to find a first season sire that might one day be a champion sire.
ll-fated Beneteau posted his tenth Australian winner of the season on Thursday when 2014 Inglis The Star Ready 2 Race Sale graduate Tatoosh resumed from a spell to win at Wyong, so if you backed Beneteau to be leading first season sire by winners you'd be starting think about a collect.
The grand finale to a massive Scone Horse Festival will begin with Australia’s richest country carnival – the $2 million Scone Cup Carnival – being held across Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May, and will conclude with the Inglis Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Scone Yearling Sale on Sunday 17 May.
An 85% clearance rate was achieved at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Autumn Book, as familiar faces returned to the sales source of their stable’s current two-year-old stars.