Zoutori won a deserved G1 in the Newmarket Handicap as the Easter Yearling Sale again showed why it’s globally considered the best auction in the southern hemisphere, producing four Stakes winners on a hallmark day for Inglis graduates.
ONE of the best younger sires in Australia at this time is Nicconi, a handsome former leading sprinter by the Danzig sire Bianconi (USA) who stands at the Widden Stud.
A sensational four straight days of trade across weanlings, race fillies and broodmares has finished on a high in Sydney, with total turnover for the 2016 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale in excess of $33.8m, the best result in six years, with the overall clearance 86%.
A world class collection of the finest yearlings has been unveiled, with the pedigrees of 580 royally-bred and conformed athletes catalogued for the 2016 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on 5, 6 and 7 April.
THE huge books of mares that fashionable sires serve this century, astronomical in size compared to those looked after by champion sires of the past such as Star Kingdom, Better Boy, Wilkes and Showdown, means that their goodness can be enjoyed by far more in racing and breeding.
Connections willing to travel gallopers for the chance of Inglis Race Series riches were rewarded again on Friday, with Caulfield trained two-year-old **Under The Leaner** taking home a $50,000 Inglis Race Series Bonus for victory in the Elvstroem Classic (1300m) at Swan Hill.
Caulfield based trainer Tony Vasil had the Group I VRC Oaks runner-up, Valdemoro, nice and sharp for her second run this campaign at Moonee Valley on Friday night and she duly saluted.
After 40 years of success, Bob & Wendy Lapointe have decided to sell their preeminent spelling and training complex, Muskoka Farm. Jamie Inglis, Director of Inglis’ Livestock and Rural Property division will oversee the sale.
Coolmore Stud had plenty of reason to celebrate another excllent investment following an exciting victory by new acquisition Starspangledbanner in the Group One Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday.
Although the crowd stood and sung their appreciation when Starspangledbanner stirred from the front at Caulfield races on Saturday, it was the Australian National anthem that they should have been rendering after the running of the historic Caulfield Guineas.
Starspangledbanner has claimed his third win from as many starts this preparation with victory in the Group 3 $125,000 McNeil Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on Saturday.
Starspangledbanner, who belongs to the same family as Elvstroem and Haradasun, has won first up today at Caulfield in the $70,000 Victorian Owners And Breeders Awards Handicap (1000m).
Tony Santic's Makybe has entered a draft of outstanding fillies and mares as part of its annual reduction for June's Inglis Australian Weanling and Breeding Stock Sale, for which entries close today.
The annual Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders Awards Dinner was held last night as a precursor to what is expected to be a bumper days racing at the Scone Cup meeting tomorrow.
Popular Tony Vasil trained four year old ELVSTROEM (2002 Easter $330,000) became the first Australian horse to win at the prestigious Dubai World Cup meeting, when he took out the Dubai Duty Free Gr 1 at the Nad Al Sheba track on Saturday night (our time).