The opportunity to “tick an item off the bucket list’’ saw Sydneysider Adam Carney bid to a sale-topping $205,000 to secure a 10% share in Melbourne Cup-bound Future History in today’s Inglis Digital October (Late) Online sale.
The thoroughbred breeding industry has never been short of an ‘opinion’, but if there is one thing that we can all agree upon with absolute certainty is that there are are no certainties.
The lightning bolt colours of prominent owner and great industry supporter Rupert Legh were first past the post in the VRC Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington today, carried to victory by Dwayne Dunn aboard Inglis graduate Chautauqua (Encosta de Lago x Lovely Jubly) in a thrilling finish to Australia's fastest Group 1 race.
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.
The hard-working Stepitup claimed his second Group win within a fortnight when he took out Sunday’s $300,000 Group 2 Chairman’s Trophy in his customary tradesman fashion to hand trainer Laurie Laxon his fifth success in that feature race over 1800m.
Vinery Stud's Champion Sire More Than Ready (USA) posted yet another juvenile Group I winner when exciting filly Entisaar captured the Group I Allan Robertson Championship at Scottsville in South Africa on Saturday.
The Inglis VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale, to be held this Sunday and Monday, 19 and 20 April is renowned for its outstanding value, not to mention the $19 million in prizemoney and bonuses available for Super VOBIS and VOBIS Gold nominated horses in Victoria. Recently, the sale has produced two particularly impressive stories of racetrack success.
Rom Baro, the impressive winner of the $120,000 Canberra Guineas (1400m) on Sunday, joins the long list of good performers acquired at modest prices through the Inglis conducted Hunter Valley Breeders Scone Yearling Sale, one which is held mid May each year.
Talented Choisir sprinter Big Money recaptured his best form with a vengeance at Doomben on Saturday cruising clear to win the Group III BRC George Moore Stakes.
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.
Champion sire Fastnet Rock is never short of a top class performer, his latest to emerge being Kiwi based rising star Atlante, who captured the Group I New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas at Riccarton on Saturday.
The male nude, albeit hindquarters only, was a ring-in for the Inglis Equine Art Prize. ''We diversified this year,'' Arthur Inglis, judge and prime mover of the award, said.
It’s been a breakout season for Darley Stud’s Exceed and Excel so it seems fitting that the champion stallion elect should put his stamp on another stakes race with his 3yo son Eximius landing Saturday’s Listed Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m).
Scone, an Upper Hunter town of less than 5000 people, but one recognised as where the racing and breeding industries meet, is poised to stage what challenges as the world's richest, biggest and most glamorous country Cup carnival.
Single may be the flagship galloper of Craig Carmody's stable but he will feel a different type of pressure if Everage gets a start in the Inglis Classic at Rosehill Gardens tomorrow.
Swettenham Stud is delighted to announce that it will be home to Americain for the champion stayer’s highly anticipated debut Australian breeding season.
Black Caviar’s sire Bel Esprit has proved once again that he is no ‘one horse wonder’ as a sire, posting his 15th stakes-winner when talented sprinter Audacious Spirit captured the listed Lough Neah Stakes at Doomben last Saturday.