4YO Kimochi brought the Yulong racing empire its seventh G1 for the spring and ended a frustrating run of top-level placings with a stirring breakthrough victory in Saturday’s Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes over 1400m at Caulfield.
Syndicator Scott Darby hopes he has found his next stable star after purchasing three of the top six lots in today’s Inglis Digital September (Late) Online Sale.
A share in Champion sire Zoustar has today become the most expensive stallion share ever sold at public auction in Australia, realising a sale-high $1.3m in the Inglis Digital June (Early) Online Sale.
Inglis graduate Think About It confirmed his status as Australia’s newest sprinting superstar by sealing back-to-back Group 1s with another imperious victory in today’s $3m Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm.
Arguably the strongest breeze up catalogue ever collated in Australia will see a who’s who of stallions and the best Antipodean horse people represented for the Inglis Ready2Race Sale on October 12.
Breeders will be presented with another world-class rare gem when the G1-performing mare Fasika (So You Think) is offered in the Inglis Digital August (Late) Online Auction.
In total, 803 yearlings have been catalogued - 620 in the Main Book and 183 in the Highway Session - for the sale at Riverside Stables on February 7-9 which will be preceded by the running of the $2m Inglis Millennium for 2YOs at Randwick on February 6th.
Adam Cook, the man responsible for selling Inglis Nursery winner and Group 1 Sires’ runner-up Odyssey Moon at last year’s Ready2Race Sale, has ‘one better’ going to next month’s auction.
Reigning’s win at Rosehill on Saturday recalls his stakes-winning half-sister Averau who was one of the first pin hooks sold by fledgling farm Burnewang North in 2010. This week they look forward to presenting the second-largest draft of weanlings (23) at the Melbourne Great Southern Sale commencing Sunday 21 June.
In 2009, Widden Stud took a gamble that few studs would attempt in launching two of Australia's brightest sire prospects in the same year and until last night, it had been a fairytale ride for all involved.
The first Australian two year-old race of the season was run and won on Saturday and while the winner was long odds, she was the best bred horse in the race.
Australia’s leading thoroughbred auctioneer Inglis has launched the Inglis Race Series program for nominated yearlings sold exclusively through Inglis Select Yearling Sales in 2011.
An enhanced Global Sprint Challenge now taking in elite sprint races across five nations will commence in spectacular style this Saturday at Flemington with the Group 1 $750,000 Coolmore Lightning Stakes (1000m).