Like his father Bart always used to, Anthony Cummings still gets a thrill when a Princes Farm graduate wins a Group 1 – even if he’s not the winning trainer.
Nearly 40% of the 2015 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book is made up of progeny by first and second season sires, a huge positive for buyers given Classic’s phenomenal record of unearthing Group 1 winners by young unproven stallions.
The David Hayes and Tom Dabernig-trained Firehouse Rock appreciated the step up in journey, winning The Inglis Ready2Race Sale Bonus (1700m) at Caulfield, earning connections the $100,000 Inglis Race Series Bonus.
Yearlings to be offered at the 2014 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book are set to start arriving at Newmarket from next Tuesday, 14 January.
The International Federation of Horseracing Authorities released their latest World’s Best Racehorse Rankings for 2013 overnight, with Australian bred and Inglis sold champion Black Caviar right at the top.
The final day’s racing of the Sydney Carnival on Saturday resulted in All Too Hard being promoted to clearly head the Timeform ratings for three-year-olds.
Inglis graduate Fiveandahalfstar continued the dominance of Australian-bred three-year-olds in the nation’s weight-for-age feature events this year when holding off all challengers to take out today’s $2.25 million Group 1 ATC BMW Stakes over 2400m at Rosehill Gardens.
It wouldn’t be a Melbourne Spring Carnival at Flemington without the Cummings name coming to the fore and at this year’s opening day it was Anthony who took the limelight with Fiveandahalfstar winning the day’s $1.5million feature, the Group 1 VRC Victoria Derby (2500m).
The winning momentum of Inglis graduates in stakes races continued at Newcastle today, with Lovemelikearock and Absolutelyfabulous taking out the Group 3 features.