After three wins at Listed level last season, the ultimate professional Golden Archer notched his first Group success in Saturday's HDF McNeil Stakes (G3) over 1200 metres at Caulfield.
Being a son of Bel Esprit, Bel Sprinter naturally draws comparisons to champion Black Caviar and he looked worthy of that accolade with a scintillating display of speed to land Saturday's Listed 60th Anniversary of National Service Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.
GAIL Lancaster has started a new life and is being inspired by a filly she hopes will bring her a sorely needed change of luck. Mrs Lancaster secured a 10 per cent share in yearling Miss Camalagh when she won the Sunday Herald Sun/Inglis Win A Share in a Racehorse competition two years ago.
Lindsay Park, the spectacular source of winners now restructuring, is presenting buyers with the opportunity at next week's Inglis Melbourne mixed sale to secure one of the most awesomely bred yearlings of 2009.
Astute breeders looking to invest in young fillies with high grade residual value could do well to consider those in the Shipton Lodge Dispersal at the inaugural Inglis Australian Racehorse Sale.
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.
IT MAY be easy for one's ego to get out of control after breeding a Melbourne Cup winner but for small NSW breeder Ian Johnson, any thoughts of self importance are well under control as his star graduate Viewed heads towards a possible second Cup victory this spring.
Group 2 winning stallion Written Tycoon will return to Eliza Park this breeding season after being knocked down for $625,000 at today's third session of the Melbourne Great Southern Sale.
More than $1million was traded on the opening day of the Melbourne Great Southern Weanling Sale today, with the depth of the buying bench underlined by the excellent clearance rate of 93%.
Ealing Park had the top selling yearling at last year's Inglis Melbourne Autumn Sale and the Euroa based farm is hoping for an even better result this year.
The Inglis Melbourne Autumn Yearling Sale, source of some of Australia’s best value Group 1 winners in recent years, begins next Sunday, April 26 and runs over two days at Oaklands.
This Friday's Melbourne December Thoroughbred Sale, to be held at Oaklands from 11am, has a catalogue of 212 horses, including 45 supplementary entries. As is always the case with this sale, it will feature a number of mares being offered with foals at foot.
The outstanding strike rate of Inglis Classic graduates in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas was enhanced further today when Whobegotyou led home an all-Inglis trifecta in the $1million Melbourne Racing Club feature.
The brilliant run of sales success being enjoyed by Coolmore’s Fastnet Rock continued at Oaklands today when a colt made $225,000 at the opening weanling session of the Inglis Great Southern Sale.