The extraordinary success of Inglis Digital continued this afternoon when outstanding filly Miss Roseiano (Exceed And Excel) became the most expensive horse sold on the platform this year, realising $1,275,000 to Tom Magnier.
Tuvalu – just the second horse Merricks Station’s Ben Cooper ever offered for sale – today became the Victorian farm’s first G1 winner when saluting in the Toorak Handicap at Caulfield.
Funstar will join half sister Youngstar at Northern Farm in Japan after tonight selling to Katsumi Yoshida for a Digital Sale world record price of $2.7m in the Inglis Digital July (Early) Online Auction.
Members Joy (Hussones) has become the most expensive pregnant mare sold online in the Southern Hemisphere, fetching an incredible $800,000 in the Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale, which concluded with three mares realising $300,000 or more and $5.25 million in turnover this evening.
An emotional Verna Metcalfe of Middlebrook Valley Lodge celebrated “an awesome result’’ as an Exceed And Excel colt she offered for long-time client Kate Gadsby topped Day 1 of the Australian Weanling Sale at Riverside.
While show horses are still hibernating in warm winter rugs, it’s time for judges to brush up their skills. Equestrian Victoria’s annual show horse judges seminar will be held at the Inglis Sales Complex at Oaklands on Saturday, catering for senior judges and those hoping to progress to that level.
Inglis graduates Shamal Wind and Under The Louvre went one-two in the Group 1 MRC Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday, making a quinella for Robert Smerdon and Aquanita Racing-purchased yearlings.
The Robert Smerdon-trained Fontiton looks destined to follow other fillies Earthquake, Miracles Of Life and Samaready and take home the $1 million Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes.
Victorian galloper Sonntag delivered his up-and-coming young trainer Henry Dwyer his first Group 1 victory on Saturday when winning the BRC Queensland Derby over 2400m at Eagle Farm.
Champion mare Better Life did not disappoint her legion of fans when recording a smashing victory in Sunday’s $1.15 million Group 1 Emirates Singapore Derby (2000m).
Stuart Webb fancies Yosei as a genuine lightweight Epsom Handicap chance even if he isn't quite sure if she will carry her correct weight in the group 1 mile at Randwick.
A rainy Melbourne day failed to dampen buyers demand for quality yearlings on Day One of the 2012 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, with over $10million traded out at Oaklands.
When a mare throws two Group winners at the same meeting it’s always worth investigating - especially when this mare is 21 and these are her 11th and 12th foals.
Champion Australian sires Encosta de Lago and Redoute’s Choice were both represented on the winners list at Sha Tin on Sunday by a pair of Widden Stud sold graduates.
The next bonus in the $2.6M Inglis Race Series for 2008 graduates goes on the line at Caulfield next Saturday, December 5, with nominations closing Monday morning.
Stakes winners to runners figures are widely used as a measuring tool for stallion performance, but with stakes races varying so drastically in quality, results can often be skewed.
The GII Hobartville Stakes at Rosehill on February 28 looms at the back-up plan for classy three-year-old Whobegotyou if trainer Mark Kavanagh doesn’t deem him fit enough to pursue the GI Cadbury Guineas (1600m).
Figures released by Michael Ford, Keeper of the Australian Stud Book, show that Thoroughbred coverings for 2008 will be around 26,100 mares with Fastnet Rock (pictured) the busiest of all stallions last spring covering 248 mares at Coolmore in the Hunter Valley.