A yearling from Highgrove Stud’s star mare Fragmentation will once again be a highlight of this year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, as the family attained more feature race success with Shrapnel’s fleet-footed win in the Group 2 Yallambee Classic at Morphettville today.
Two year's ago on Derby Day Highgrove Stud's Ron Gilbert, the breeder of Wanted eagerly tuned into the oncourse monitors at Flemington to watch the colt win his debut at Rosehill impressively.
Fastnet Rock colt Wanted capped an Inglis domination of the Flemington card today when he scored a much deserved win in the Group 1 $1Million Newmarket Handicap.
Fairytale filly Chance Bye highlighted a close relation at next week’s Premier Sale as fellow Inglis graduates Not A Pretender and Shrapnel also scored feature two-year-old successes today.
Widden Stud have announced the acquisition of high class three year-old colt Wanted, who finished fourth beaten less than a length, in the Group One MRC Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday afternoon.
Despite the scratching of hot favourite Black Caviar, the Melbourne Premier Sale still shone brightly in today’s William Reid Stakes, with ultra-consistent Turffontein landing his second Group 1 prize.
Acquiring a share in a commercial stallion these days is an expensive business, and most often out of reach of many breeders and owners with most commercial stallion prospects either owned by or the subject of, massive offers from the major farms upon Group success on the track.
Led by unbeaten filly Black Caviar, Inglis graduates dominated at today's feature Makybe Diva Stakes meeting at Flemington, winning five of the first six races, including three at stakes level.
Next month’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale was highlighted by the Group wins of Wanted and Portillo, who headed another successful day of stakes success for Inglis graduates yesterday.
ROSTOVA ($80,000 2008 Premier, 2f Testa Rossa-Space Talk) continued a dominant start to the new season for Inglis two-year-old graduates when she made an exciting debut to claim the Listed Schiavello Stakes at Flemington yesterday.
The William Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is on target to break all previous records after a stunning opening session of the 2008 sale at Newmarket today.
Set to be held this Friday, August 24, the inaugural 2007 William Inglis & Son Scone Broodmare Sale is sure to command plenty of interest from the hundreds of breeders sure to be in the Hunter Valley for the Annual Stallion Parades held over the weekend.