Champion racehorse and sire Lonhro wowed the crowds at the annual Darley stallion parade on Saturday and also provided us with two impressive debut winners at Cranbourne on Sunday with spring goals on their agenda.
IF THERE is currently a halo over the gateway to Stuart Ramsey’s Turangga Stud at the northern end to the Se genhoe Valley, Scone, it is well deserved for one of its products has become the first performer raised in the Hunter Valley since Fairy King Prawn at the turn of the century to capture the prestigious title of Hong Kong Horse of the Year.
Hot on the hooves of Dead Or Alive’s dynamic stakes victory in the Oaklands Plate on Saturday, Wanted has fired another shot with first starter Dangerous Breeding scampering away with the VOBIS Gold Strike (1000m) at Warrnambool today.
Fairway Thoroughbreds were in the news last weekend for breeding and selling Group I SAJC Australasian Oaks winner Invest and were back in the winner's circle at the Gold Coast on Saturday with royally bred filly Florentina, who they elected to retain.
Exciting young sire Domesday has been a breakout success story in the second season sires division and with few of his progeny to be offered at sales in 2011 there will be tremendous interest in those that are available including a strapping colt from a terrific family that had a good pedigree update on Tuesday.
When a mare throws two Group winners at the same meeting it’s always worth investigating - especially when this mare is 21 and these are her 11th and 12th foals.
Azeri, the American Horse of the Year, three times champion race mare and record female money earner has a close relation in the Inglis Summer Sale on Friday December 4.
Black Caviar lived up to the long odds-on price tag when easily adding to her imposing record, before impressive Elvstroem colt Carrara made it a stakes double for 2008 Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale graduates at Moonee Valley today.
Tony Santic's Makybe has entered a draft of outstanding fillies and mares as part of its annual reduction for June's Inglis Australian Weanling and Breeding Stock Sale, for which entries close today.
An Encosta De Lago colt which syndicator Dean Watt says has been purchased on behalf of an overseas client, has become the highest priced lot at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
The 2009 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale has been further boosted by the announcement that Mr Yaseen, owner of perhaps Australia's most valuable broodmare, Shantha’s Choice, has decided to enter the mare's Encosta De Lago colt for next year's sale.
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.
After graduates filled five of the six placings in the Sydney juvenile features last week, Inglis graduates kept up the good work when running the trifecta in the Group 2 Todman Stakes at Canterbury.
Sarthemare continued the great weekend of results for Inglis Sale graduates when she led home an Inglis 1,2,3 in Sunday’s $206,500 AAMI Black Opal Stakes in fine style at Canberra.