Gilgai Farm’s Rick Jamieson and Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria share their thoughts on what the latest world thoroughbred rankings mean for Victorian breeders
Black Caviar being crowned the world’s best racehorse.
Black Caviar’s sibling stole the show on Day One of the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale where $38.9 million was traded on 127 of the region’s best bred and conformed young thoroughbreds.
matings don't come much more exciting than the mating of 3-time Melbourne Cup winner and champion racemare Makybe Diva with Australian and European champion sprinter Starspangledbanner.
The revered status of Sacred Kingdom in Hong Kong has been further enhanced with the son of Encosta De Lago being named Champion Sprinter for the fourth time.
Leon Corstens and the Newmarc/Spicer Bloodstock team combined to win the very first bonus in the rich Inglis Race Series two seasons back with a Choisir colt and history repeated at Sandown today.
Starspangledbanner continued his elevation to being one of the world’s great sprinters when he showed spades of courage in an Inglis dominated Group 1 July Cup at Newmarket overnight.
Starspangledbanner became the second Australian-bred winner of the Group 1 Golden Jubilee Stakes when emulating his sire and fellow Inglis graduate Choisir at the famous Royal Ascot carnival overnight.
The 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale will be held at Newmarket from April 6-8. Following is a list of stakes updates to the catalogue from today’s racing.
At the 2008 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale a Choisir colt from Gold Anthem was purchased for $120,000 – now a dual Group One winner of more than $1,3 million in prizemoney, sold for a reported $10 million as a sire prospect.
Coolmore Stud had plenty of reason to celebrate another excllent investment following an exciting victory by new acquisition Starspangledbanner in the Group One Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday.
Outstanding colt Starspangledbanner once again hoisted the flag for the Melbourne Premier Sale in taking the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield today.
Although the crowd stood and sung their appreciation when Starspangledbanner stirred from the front at Caulfield races on Saturday, it was the Australian National anthem that they should have been rendering after the running of the historic Caulfield Guineas.
Whobegotyou kicked off an Inglis Group 1 double at Caulfield when he proved too good in today's Yalumba Stakes, assuring himself of favouritism for this month's Cox Plate.
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.
Kicked off by in-form Choisir colt Starspangledbanner, Inglis graduates enjoyed a stakes treble in Melbourne and Sydney today as the build up to the forthcoming spring carnival gathered momentum.
Starspangledbanner, who belongs to the same family as Elvstroem and Haradasun, has won first up today at Caulfield in the $70,000 Victorian Owners And Breeders Awards Handicap (1000m).
Less than a month out from the Southern Hemisphere’s best yearling sale, Easter graduates totally dominated feature racing today, with Group 1 Randwick Guineas winner Metal Bender leading a tally of seven stakes winners for the sale at Randwick and Flemington.
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.