4YO Kimochi brought the Yulong racing empire its seventh G1 for the spring and ended a frustrating run of top-level placings with a stirring breakthrough victory in Saturday’s Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes over 1400m at Caulfield.
The opportunity to “tick an item off the bucket list’’ saw Sydneysider Adam Carney bid to a sale-topping $205,000 to secure a 10% share in Melbourne Cup-bound Future History in today’s Inglis Digital October (Late) Online sale.
Two outstanding days of trade have resulted in new records for both gross and sale average for the weanling sessions of the Inglis Great Southern Sale.
IF it hadn’t been for the confident words of trainer Robert Smerdon, Politeness’ part-owner Phil Sly might not have made it to Flemington yesterday to see his super mare break her Group 1 maiden.
If there is a centre to the racing world surely Royal Ascot is it. In a sense it is the home of the sport of kings and Australia's best trainers are ready to annex it in the Diamond Jubilee on Saturday.
Trainer Chris Waller didn’t pull any punches when he described Delectation as a “frustrating horse”. But Waller also knows Delectation is loaded with latent sprinting ability and the three-year-old showed in his narrow win in the Group 2 $500,000 Arrowfield Sprint (1200m).
Inglis graduates enjoyed a range of successes on Day Two of The Chamionships, both at Royal Randwick and Flemington, headlined by Delectation which won the Group 2 ATC Arrowfield Sprint.
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.
In the twenty times that the Group Two Schillaci Stakes has been run as a part of the Caulfield Cup carnival, it has been won by some of racing’s true stars.
Seven-year-old galloper Zedi Knight delivered plenty of Christmas cheer to his trainer Brendan McCarthy today in Melbourne when winning the days feature at Caulfield, the Listed MRC Café Terroni Christmas Stakes (1200m).
Former Victorian trainer Cliff Brown has landed his first major success in Singapore after Clint posted a comfortable win in Sunday's Group I Emirates Singapore Derby (2000m) at Kranji.
Warwick Farm trainer Matthew Smith was the most relieved man at Randwick on Saturday after his stable star returned to form to win the Group II Yellowglen Sapphire Stakes (1200m).
Lightly-raced four-year-old Eclair Fastpass has been given a long and steady build-up for his return to racing. Trainer Desmond Koh sent the former Australian sprinter on another step towards that comeback with a pleasing second placing in a 1000m barrier trial on Tuesday.
Zipping joined an elite few to win a feature race four consecutive times when he dug deep to claim yet another Sandown Classic today, completing the Group 2 feature double for Inglis graduates.
Black Caviar shrugged off the only remaining anomaly on her scorecard when dominating the Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington today, continuing a great run for Inglis graduates in this year’s Global Sprint Challenge.