Tenacious stayer Red Aces (Dundeel) firmed into a $7 second favourite with Ladbrokes for next Saturday’s G1 Victoria Derby following his tough victory in today’s traditional lead up, the G2 Vase at Moonee Valley.
An impressive draft of breeding stock to be offered by Godolphin – 37 broodmares and 4 race fillies – headlines what is shaping as another extremely strong catalogue for the Inglis Digital July (Early) Online Auction.
Missing the start may have proved a blessing in disguise for promising Choisir colt Defcon, who cast off maiden status with a last to first win in the Group III Canberra Black Opal Stakes on Sunday.
Nothing is sacred in Australian racing anymore. Not even the colonial name of the winner could disguise how much things have changed over the past two decades.
Victorian galloper Sonntag delivered his up-and-coming young trainer Henry Dwyer his first Group 1 victory on Saturday when winning the BRC Queensland Derby over 2400m at Eagle Farm.
Today’s Group 1 Rosehill Guineas win by Zabeel gelding Zabrasive was a timely reminder of the success New Zealand breeders have had with horses sold out of the Easter Sale.
The Tim Martin-trained The Mikado has unleashed a slashing turn of foot to thump his rivals in the Listed Strada Eskimo Prince Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
Starspangledbanner became the sixth Inglis-sold winner of the Caulfield Guineas in the past eight runnings with a sustained display of speed in the Melbourne Racing Club's 1600m feature today.
INGLIS sale graduates have cut a swathe through Melbourne Spring Carnival classics with brilliant filly SERENADE ROSE(Easter 2004, $400,000) completing a quartet of Group One winners of the nation’s most prestigious three-year-old prizes with her dominant Crown Oaks (2500m) victory at Flemington yesterday.