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Tried horses excel again in February (Early) Sale

8th Feb 2023

The Inglis Digital tried horse market continued its surge today when talented gallopers Operative ($230,000) and Bend The Knee ($165,000) – as well as a 5% share in G2 winner Old Flame - sold strongly in the February (Early) Sale.

Nominations for the 2022 Stud and Stable Staff Awards are now open

10th Jan 2022

Imagine waking up at 3am for work or working 12 days on, two days off. Imagine working Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, New Year’s Eve, or any public holiday. Sounds tough, right?

Trope realises $245,000 as Digital grosses $1.45 million

25th Mar 2020

Racing and stud prospect Trope has topped the March (Late) Online Sale, selling for $245,000 to Paul Lofitis of The Lofty Thoroughbred Group.

Woodside Park Reduction and Alan Bell’s Trope highlight online catalogue

19th Mar 2020

An unreserved reduction sale comprising 18 broodmares and one weanling from Woodside Park – plus the Stakes-performed colt Trope – headline a boom Inglis Digital March (Late) Online catalogue.

Premier off to a solid start

26th Feb 2017

Little Hung, an emerging force in the thoroughbred world, is starting to form a serious affiliation with quality Snitzel colts at the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.

Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards

1st Sep 2015

Thoroughbred Breeders Australia (TBA) and Racing Australia have launched the Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards which acknowledges the dedication and hard work of stud and stable staff.

Shorten the Odds

26th Jun 2015

Which sires are more likely to succeed than others? It's a question broodmare owners ask themselves at this time of year as they seek to shorten the odds in their quest to find a first season sire that might one day be a champion sire.

Succession Planning For Victoria

27th Apr 2015

Inglis managing director Mark Webster today announced a number of important changes to its bloodstock team, in particular a new management team for its Victorian operations. The changes are a culmination of deliberate succession planning undertaken at Inglis.

Bowman to ride Boomwaa in Classic

14th Jan 2014

The Victoria Derby winning trainer-jockey partnership will be reunited in the Inglis Classic when Hugh Bowman rides the Robbie Laing-trained Boomwaa in the $250,000 race.

Loveya looks Abell

13th Mar 2013

She is stepping up into open company for the first time but Mick Price is confident that Loveyamadly will acquit herself well in the Listed Abell Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night.

First Win for Blue-Blood Colt De Shamekh

14th Jan 2012

When you're by champion sire Encosta de Lago from a triple Group I winner in Shamekha, there is a high degree of expectation that you will be able to run.

Hore-Lacy takes two-pronged attack at rich Caulfield spoils

7th Oct 2011

TAKING on monumental racetrack assignments has never bothered Caulfield horseman Rick Hore-Lacy. Not the way for a man with 80 per cent of a law degree to dodge headline-makers Helmet, Smart Missile and Manawanui in a cracking Caulfield Guineas tomorrow.

Black Caviar the standout

5th Aug 2011

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.

Holdontoyahorses makes it two

10th Jan 2011

A stiff north wind, and thirty degrees, did not stop Holdontoyahorses making it back-to-back wins in the Thomas North Plate at Caulfield on Saturday.

Bart should be back trackside for Cup

29th Oct 2010

Bart Cummings is expected to be back where he belongs next Tuesday, at Flemington for the Melbourne Cup

Birchley chases rich bonus payday

26th Jul 2010

LIAM Birchley will head south in search of another big bonus with promising filly Liesele he regards as a potential Golden Rose candidate.

Double Danehill - The First

8th Feb 2010

When talented filly Psychologist powered away to score a scintillating win in the Group Three MRC Blue Diamond Prelude on Saturday she wrote her name into the history books as the very first stakes-winner to carry a double cross of champion sire Danehill.

Should There Be A Tax On Stallion Fees?

4th Feb 2010

There have been suggestions that an Australia-wide industry tax of five per cent be placed on stallion fees. Graeme Kelly sourced industry opinion on this subject.

What Cheeses Me Off!

13th Jan 2010

People of a certain vintage will have fond memories of a segment on the old Hey Hey It’s Saturday show hosted by Darryl Sommers entitled What Cheeses Me Off! And we’ve decided to give it a run this week in reference to auction house websites.

Cox Plate Quinella for the ‘Old Biddies’

26th Oct 2009

Despite the sale ring stigma attached to the progeny of older mares in this part of the world, the Cox Plate quinella of So You Think and Manhattan Rain has given further impetus to the cause.