Coolmore Stud and Goodwood Farm have finished at the top of Inglis’ Group 1 Vendors List for the 2011/12 Australian racing season, having sold two individual Group 1 winners each.
Talented, yet unlucky galloper Metal Bender almost brought champion trainer Chris Waller to tears at Rosehill on Saturday, after the six-year-old took his earnings to $1.9million with victory in the Group One ATC George Ryder Stakes over 1500m.
Two horses dominated the last season and in many ways they are completely different. Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) dominated the sprinters, So You Think (High Chaparral) was the dominant middle-distance runner.
The loudest cheer came from Western Australia as Metal Bender led home a 1-2-3 for trainer Chris Waller in Saturday's Group 2 Warwick Stakes (1400m) at Warwick Farm.
Multiple Group 1 winner Metal Bender returned to racing with a bang when leading home a Chris Waller trained trifecta in today’s Group 2 Warwick Stakes in Sydney.
Metal Bender and Road To Rock are poised to renew their rivalry in the Doomben Cup after running 1-2 in today’s Group 2 Hollindale Stakes on the Gold Coast.
Metal Bender and Sousa became the latest Easter graduates to quinella a Group 1 race in today’s Rosehill Guineas, in the process once again underlining how Easter brings together the very best yearlings the Southern Hemisphere has to offer.
Less than a month out from the Southern Hemisphere’s best yearling sale, Easter graduates totally dominated feature racing today, with Group 1 Randwick Guineas winner Metal Bender leading a tally of seven stakes winners for the sale at Randwick and Flemington.