A “natural 2YO from a fast family’’ topped today’s HTBA Yearling Sale at Riverside in a result that was “far and away more’’ than the vendor was expecting.
It was a day of staggering drama, global records and the most incredible bidding and theatre ever witnessed in a thoroughbred sales ring as the much anticipated daughter of Pierro and Winx set a world record price for a yearling filly at Riverside.
Mighty mares Pride Of Jenni and Zougotcha confirmed their place among the very finest of recent Inglis graduates by storming to victories in the two biggest races in Australasia this afternoon - Caulfield’s All Star Mile and Rosehill’s G1 Coolmore Classic.
“Last year we won The Everest, this year we win The Kosciuszko. Throw a Melbourne Cup in between and it’s been a pretty handy 12 months for the Kitchwin Hills team.’’
All videos from horses that have breezed ahead of the Inglis Ready2Race Sale are now available online following another successful day of action at Taupo in New Zealand on Monday.
Swear will look to become the third Inglis graduate in the past five years to win the Group 1 Victoria Derby following his impressive first-up victory at Randwick on Saturday.
Yarraman Park's star sire I Am Invincible kick started the new season with a stakes double at Caulfield as I Am a Star returned from a break to take the Group 3 MRC Quezette Stakes and Voodoo Lad scored a career best win in the Listed MRC Regal Roller Stakes.
The Inglis Ready2 Race Sale took centre stage in Singapore on Sunday, only a day after graduates of the sale saluted at Randwick and Flemington back in Australia.
The great joys of racehorse ownership were clear to see at Cranbourne Turf Club tonight as the Henry Dwyer trained If Not Now When flew late to win the $100,000 Inglis VOBIS Gold Plate.
With three weeks until yearlings arrive at Newmarket, stakes wins on both sides of the Tasman Sea today highlighted the outstanding opportunities available for all buyers at the upcoming Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, to be held on 5, 6 and April.
A bountiful day of racing across the country saw four graduates of Inglis sales, and the siblings of seven which will walk through the ring in the coming months, adorn their pedigrees with a multitude of black type.
Two outstanding youngsters flew the flag for Inglis-sold two-year-olds across two countries today, taking out both juvenile stakes races in Australia and New Zealand.
With a bevy of bluebloods and a last start stakes-winner engaged in the Group III VRC Emirates Airline Plate for two year-old fillies at Flemington on Cup Day, modest Nicconi filly Concealer got under the guard of punters to score a powerful win.
Scone trainer Rod Northam had a Muswellbrook double on Monday and will send out a handful at Gunnedah on Saturday, but he will be with Odyssey Moon in Melbourne in an attempt to lift the Caulfield Guineas trophy.
An $840,000 Inglis Easter purchase for US agent John Moynihan from the Turangga Farm draft, Lonhro filly Kangarilla Joy is the most expensive filly by her sire ever sold and she’s also now a winner after saluting on debut at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
The all-the-way win of Majestic Duke at Flemington has helped ease the pain of co-trainers Terry and Katrina O'Sullivan losing one of their best horses to injury.
From two-year-old brilliance in Melbourne to a tenacious middle-distance performance in Singapore, Inglis graduates got off to an auspicious start to the Year of The Horse with three stakes wins on Saturday.