Mighty mare Bella Nipotina today became the second-highest prizemoney earner in Australian racing history with an emphatic victory in the $3m Russell Balding Stakes at Rosehill.
Tenacious stayer Red Aces (Dundeel) firmed into a $7 second favourite with Ladbrokes for next Saturday’s G1 Victoria Derby following his tough victory in today’s traditional lead up, the G2 Vase at Moonee Valley.
Disappointment gave way to unbridled joy for Hermitage Thoroughbreds and Arrowfield Stud when Inglis Easter graduate Lady Shenandoah secured G1 glory in today’s Darley Flight Stakes over 1600m at Randwick.
The additional prizemoney won as part of the Inglis Xtra Bonus Maiden Series today hit $500,000 when Lofty Arch (Snitzel) scored on debut at Cranbourne.
The sole progeny of Frankel in this year’s Great Southern Sale topped today’s Day 1 action at Oaklands, selling to New Zealander Gary Harding for $525,000.
The G2-winning 2YO Lazzago (Capitalist) headlines a host of appealing race fillies and mares already confirmed for next week’s Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale.
G1-winning jockey-turned-trainer Peter Robl enjoyed one of the biggest wins of his training career today, when Overfull powered home in the $200,000 Inglis 2YO Challenge at Scone.
A rollercoaster week of emotions for Gus Wigley and the Inglewood Stud team ended on a high tonight when Parmalove realised a sale-high $730,000 in the Inglis Digital May (Early) Online Sale.
Outstanding filly She’s Extreme became the equal second-most expensive horse ever sold at an Inglis Chairman’s Sale when realising $3.4m to the bid of Coolmore at Riverside this evening.
Brae Sokolski secured the top lot in tonight’s ‘full’ Inglis Digital April (Late) Sale, buying proven broodmare Molto Allegro - in foal to Too Darn Hot – from the Oakland Park reduction for $300,000.
Outstanding sprinter Overpass – the new King of the West – kept his unbeaten record in feature WA races intact today with another scintillating performance to win the $5m The Quokka at Ascot.
Widden Stud’s exceptional stallion Zoustar was the star on Day 1 of the Easter Yearling Sale, providing the top two lots and four of the top six on a day where blue chip fillies rose to the fore.
A Doncaster Mile winner who could “win an Everest and a Cox Plate’’, by a stallion “capable of producing an absolutely exceptional horse’’ and whose half brother being offered at the upcoming Easter Yearling Sale is “athletic and sleek’’.
A sister to G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes placegetter and former sale-topping Inglis Premier graduate Bruckner today realised a sale-high $925,000 at Oaklands.