The flying Fawkner claimed his third career Group 1 triumph with a tenacious victory in the Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) in Melbourne today, while fellow Inglis graduate Petits Filous extended her unbeaten record to four down the famous Flemington straight.
Seasoned stayer Tanby hadn’t won a race since the Group II MRC Zipping Classic in 2012, but the eight year-old son of Galileo (IRE) was the Tanby of old at Morphettville on Monday, surging late to snatch victory in the Group II SAJC Adelaide Cup.
With five stakes victories going the way of Inglis graduates, it was an amazing period during the middle of the day when three consecutive Group 1 victories formed part of that five.
The Team Williams reduction sale draft of 27 entries at the Inglis Melbourne Select Racehorse Sale on Friday, May 23, is racing’s version of long-awaited Boxing Day sales bargains.
Australian bred, sold, trained and owned galloper Fawkner claimed the world’s richest 2400m handicap race on Saturday, the $2.5 million Group 1 MRC Caulfield Cup.
Tanby's strong finishing victory in the Group 2 Zipping Classic over 2400m at Sandown two weeks ago, was further confirmation that big time Victorian owner Lloyd Williams is a modern king of Australia’s owners of stayers.
Team Williams galloper Fawkner heads towards next week’s $1million Group 1 VRC Emirates Stakes in devastating form after getting within a whisker of Flemington’s twenty-year-old 1400m track record when winning the Group 3 VRC tab.com.au Stakes today.
Group 3 winning mare Dane Belltar recorded an amazing feat in Australia on Saturday, with three of her foals winning on metropolitan tracks; Tanby and Fawkner at Flemington and Viking Star at Morphettville.
The powerful Lloyd Williams team struck early at Flemington on Saturday when lightly raced Reset five year-old Fawkner returned from a spell to post a resounding win in the Listed VRC Sofitel Stakes.
Progressive Reset gelding Fawkner provided the powerful Lloyd Williams team with their first winner at the Flemington carnival when he cruised clear for an easy victory in the first event on Oaks Day.
Lightly raced stayer Tanby looks a horse on the up following an impressive two length win at Sandown on Wednesday providing a timely update for his half-brother by Red Ransom (USA), who will be offered by Mill Park Stud at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale next week.
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.