The additional prizemoney won as part of the Inglis Xtra Bonus Maiden Series today hit $500,000 when Lofty Arch (Snitzel) scored on debut at Cranbourne.

Group 1-placed mare Gypsy Diamond topped tonight’s Chairman’s Sale Breeding Prospects at Riverside Stables at $1,350,000.

A $75,000 Inglis Premier purchase from the draft of Torryburn Stud, talented six year-old Rock of Gibraltar (IRE) mare Jessy Belle has taken her own good time to win her first Black Type event, but did it in style at Flemington on Saturday with a sweet victory in the Group II VRC Matriarch Stakes.

say ‘patience is a virtue’ and well known breeder Ian Smith of Edinburgh Park Stud at Taree had his well and truly rewarded at Randwick on Saturday.

Some fantastic winners and races have occurred since the VRC swapped the Danehill Stks over and ran the Ascot Vale on Derby day.

Following several months of turmoil and uncertainty, the equine influenza (horse flu) outbreak in Australia is under control and on track for early eradication, and will therefore have no impact on the conduct or quality of Australian yearling sales in March and April this year.