Fastnet Rock continued a great sales season as lot 97, a weanling colt offered by Rosemont Stud, topped the opening day of the 2018 Inglis Great Southern Sale at Oaklands Junction.

Mark Newnham has been crowned the inaugural winner of the Thoroughbred Excellence Award at the Australian Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards at Randwick on Tuesday.

Inglis are delighted to announce that Chris Russell will be joining the company as a bloodstock consultant and auctioneer based in its Sydney office.

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.