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.
The first foal of Champion racehorse Winx to be offered for public auction – a beautiful filly – will be the star attraction at next year’s Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.
Jamaea - a star race filly in Sydney over the last number of seasons - is the latest high profile lot earmarked for sale with Inglis Digital, having been confirmed for the July (Late) auction.
She was described as a Queen when she was purchased at last year’s Australian Easter Yearling Sale and today Estijaab proved the Queen of her generation.
A sensational four straight days of trade across weanlings, race fillies and broodmares has finished on a high in Sydney, with total turnover for the 2016 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale in excess of $33.8m, the best result in six years, with the overall clearance 86%.
Abandoning a lifelong strategy of purchasing 'fillies only' has delivered this highly successful and well known breeder with the thrill of a lifetime and a very real chance of winning the Group I MRC Blue Diamond Stakes on Saturday week.
The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) yesterday announced a new Flemington tradition - the Harry White Whip trophy - to be awarded to the winning jockey of the Melbourne Cup each year.
Inglis graduates kicked goals across the country today winning a swag of black type at Rosehill and Caulfield, headlined by a thrilling victory by Mourinho in the Group 1 MRC Underwood Stakes.
Steve Englebrecht set Reply Churlish a Saturday challenge and she stepped up again to win the $85,000 Australian Turf Club Handicap (1800m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Macau Derby winner Elderly Paradise treated his opponents with contempt to win the final leg of the Macau Triple Crown, the Macau Gold Cup with an easy five and a half length victory in the $1 million dollar Group 1 event on Saturday.
Australian-bred and Inglis sold gallopers have not just been the talking point at Royal Ascot in the last week, but also all across Asia, with Group 1 winners in Malaysia and Macau along with rising stars in Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea.
Connections willing to travel gallopers for the chance of Inglis Race Series riches were rewarded again on Friday, with Caulfield trained two-year-old **Under The Leaner** taking home a $50,000 Inglis Race Series Bonus for victory in the Elvstroem Classic (1300m) at Swan Hill.