Set to retire to Aquis Farm in Queensland this spring, brilliant Snitzel colt Spill the Beans added further lustre to his resume when taking out the Group II QTC Cup over 1300 metres at Eagle Farm on Saturday in his final raceday appearance.
Young trainer Cameron Crockett recorded the most significant victory of his career to date when Barbass took out the $100,000 Inglis Challenge over 1100m at Scone Race Club.
After having been able to hand pick the best of Darley's two-year-old arsenal for years, Kerrin McEvoy's wide-ranging pursuit of another autumn major may come a little closer to home.
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.
The upcoming Inglis Classic Autumn Book and the Inglis HTBA Scone Yearling Sale are the last two opportunities in 2015 to secure a yearling that is eligible to be nominated for the lucrative $5 million Inglis Race Series.
Uniquely, the Widden Stud in the Widden Valley, a spur off the south western end of the Hunter Valley, has two young sires in its historic stallion yards shaping up very good winner-getters who were not only brilliant Group 1 winning Australian racehorses, but also performers who turned in good efforts in one of England’s most prestigious sprints, the King’s Stand at Royal Ascot.
The catalogues for the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Autumn Book and the Inglis HTBA Scone Select Yearling Sale are now available, both of which can be viewed online at inglis.com.au and on the updated Inglis Sales iPad App.
Five sires, all Australian products who have captured the annual Champion Australian Sire title on earnings, will be among the mouthwatering collection of at least 70 which will be shown to invited disciples of breeding and racing when Hunter Valley studs conduct their pre season Stallion Parades in the period August 21-25.
The 2010-11 ANZ Classifications have been released reflecting the best individual performances by horses during the recently concluded racing year in Australia and New Zealand.
The release of ANZ form’s juvenile ratings for 2010-11 reveals that Inglis was the only sales company in the southern hemisphere to sell a Top 10 rated youngster last season.
JENNY GRAHAM might not have the oil-fuelled backing of Sheikh Mohammed's Darley Stud operation but the trainer is doing a fine job on the two-year-old front.
HOT Snitzel landed a plunge, while those supporting the Darley juggernaut were left licking their wounds after a dramatic BRC Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) yesterday.