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.
Coolmore Stud and Goodwood Farm have finished at the top of Inglis’ Group 1 Vendors List for the 2011/12 Australian racing season, having sold two individual Group 1 winners each.
The 2012 edition of the southern hemisphere’s premier breeding stock sale, the 2012 Inglis Australian Easter Broodmare Sale, came to a close in Sydney on Thursday, with positive results and feedback received for the new format implemented by Inglis.
Talented, yet unlucky galloper Metal Bender almost brought champion trainer Chris Waller to tears at Rosehill on Saturday, after the six-year-old took his earnings to $1.9million with victory in the Group One ATC George Ryder Stakes over 1500m.
Two horses dominated the last season and in many ways they are completely different. Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) dominated the sprinters, So You Think (High Chaparral) was the dominant middle-distance runner.
The loudest cheer came from Western Australia as Metal Bender led home a 1-2-3 for trainer Chris Waller in Saturday's Group 2 Warwick Stakes (1400m) at Warwick Farm.
Multiple Group 1 winner Metal Bender returned to racing with a bang when leading home a Chris Waller trained trifecta in today’s Group 2 Warwick Stakes in Sydney.
Metal Bender and Road To Rock are poised to renew their rivalry in the Doomben Cup after running 1-2 in today’s Group 2 Hollindale Stakes on the Gold Coast.
PRETTY USEFUL , a Youthful Legs gelding who lived up to his name when he won the Starmaker, an annual feature event for juveniles, at the Muswellbrook Singleton Cup meeting in the Hunter Valley on Sunday, has good prospects of taking out the $100,000 Inglis Challenge at the big race day at neighbouring Scone on Friday week, May 15.
Metal Bender and Sousa became the latest Easter graduates to quinella a Group 1 race in today’s Rosehill Guineas, in the process once again underlining how Easter brings together the very best yearlings the Southern Hemisphere has to offer.
Less than a month out from the Southern Hemisphere’s best yearling sale, Easter graduates totally dominated feature racing today, with Group 1 Randwick Guineas winner Metal Bender leading a tally of seven stakes winners for the sale at Randwick and Flemington.
A colt by Redoute's Choice from Alinghi's sister Slice Of Paradise topped today's Inglis Spring Thoroughbred Sale when knocked down to International Equities Holdings, USA, for $75,000.
The William Inglis Group 1 juggernaut rolled on in Western Australia yesterday, with GRAND JOURNEY (2006 Autumn Yearling Sale $6500, Good Journey-Grand Prospect) taking out the W.
Set to be held this Friday, August 24, the inaugural 2007 William Inglis & Son Scone Broodmare Sale is sure to command plenty of interest from the hundreds of breeders sure to be in the Hunter Valley for the Annual Stallion Parades held over the weekend.
Saturday’s success in the Listed Angst Quality (1400m) of the David Payne trained MORE THAN LUCKY (2005 Ready To Run, $72,500) further enhanced the reputation of the Inglis Breeze Up Sale.