The Unreserved Reduction of broodmares and race fillies from Think Big Stud to be offered at the Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale next Monday offers a rare opportunity to tap into the bloodlines that have made Dato Tan Chin Nam’s famed colours some of the most well-known and successful in the country.
Two year-old racing in Australia might still be a few more weeks away, but they are up and running in New Zealand and Australian bred I Am Invincible gelding Vinnie Eagle opened his account with a debut win at Ruakaka on Saturday.
Australian bred Galileo (IRE) filly Igugu beat older mares to win the Group Three Joburg Spring Filly and Mare Challenge at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday.
Top class Australian bred sprinter Inspiration returned to peak form to lead home an Aussie bred and John Moore trained quinella in the Sha Tin Premier Bowl HK Gr 3 in Hong Kong on Sunday.
THE 600-strong catalogue compiled by William Inglis and Son for the 2009 Australian Easter Yearling Sale from April 5-7 must rank as the best ever compiled by this historic company.
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.
ARAPAHO MISS ($22,500 2006 Melbourne Premier, 3 f Danehill Dancer (Ire) - Happy Heart (FR) outstayed the best three-year-old fillies in the country to win the 2007 VRC Crown Oaks Gr1 and in the process gave high profile racehorse owner Tony Santic another dimension in the thoroughbred business - as a successful breeder and seller of top class racehorses.
Victorian stud Paringa Park outlaid a sale topping $245,000 to secure Chicago Wonder (Lot 727), a Bluebird (USA) half-sister to Hong Kong Group One winner Jeune King Prawn and dual Listed winner Creative Plan during the final session of The William Inglis & Son Great Southern Broodmare.
Off the back of a sensational day's selling yesterday, another large crowd was in attendance at Oaklands for the second and final session of the William Inglis & Son Great Southern Weanling Sale.
As the 2007 William Inglis & Son Great Southern Sale is the one of the last opportunity buyers have to purchase quality bloodstock for the season, the lucrative section of over 400 well-bred mares in foal to leading commercial stallions, are sure to be highly sought after.
The 2007 William Inglis & Son Great Southern Sale is set to play a major part in maintaining the upward spiral of Australia’s leading thoroughbred auctioneering company.
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.
Australia's richest country race meeting, the 2007 Scone Cup Day will offer the racing enthusiast a precursor to what many are saying is the best catalogue ever assembled for this year's HTBA Scone Yearling Sale to be held at White Park on Sunday May 20, commencing at 10:30am.
Quality continued to find good homes on Day Three of the 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Select Broodmare Sale with 227 lots selling for $6,291,850 at an average of $44,309.
The 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Select Broodmare Sale proved, yet again, that cream rises to the surface, resulting in another brisk day of trade with 202 lots sold for $10,315,850 at an average of $75,298.
The record price for a thoroughbred sold at public auction in Australian was shattered today when dual Group One winning Anabaa (USA) mare, Virage de Fortune was purchased by Darley Australia for an astonishing $3.