A capacity crowd in the auditorium at Oaklands provided an exceptional atmosphere on the first day of the 2016 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, where strong competition led to records being set in the Blue Riband Session and a new top price for a filly in Melbourne.
The first edition of the Korea Racing Authority Trophy open to Korean horses was a hotly-contested affair which eventually went to the home team with Super Winner sprinting away to a handsome victory on Sunday.
Smart two-year-old Northkape proved today that racing is a game that everyone can enjoy, when she lead the whole way to take out the $100,000 Inglis VOBIS Gold Plate at Cranbourne over 1000m on debut, earning $60,000 plus bonuses for her connections.
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.
The extended four day format of the Inglis Great Southern Sale has encouraged an influx of supplementary entries, taking the total number of Lots to 825, which will begin selling at 10.30am this Sunday 21 June at Inglis' Oaklands Complex.
The final major breeding stock sale for 2015, the Inglis Great Southern Sale will be held in just a little over two weeks, across four days on 21, 22, 23 and 24 June at Inglis’ Oaklands Complex in Melbourne. The 724-strong catalogue is full of opportunities to secure stock form some of Australia’s richest Thoroughbred families, with over 50 weanlings offered out of stakes-performing dams, and no less than 37 broodmares on offer being stakes-performers themselves.
The start of Inglis’ Select Yearling Sales Season for 2015 is only a few days away, but for graduates of last year’s sales Saturday promises to be a great stepping stone in their racetrack careers with $500,000 in Inglis Race Series prizemoney on the line.
Five sires, all Australian products who have captured the annual Champion Australian Sire title on earnings, will be among the mouthwatering collection of at least 70 which will be shown to invited disciples of breeding and racing when Hunter Valley studs conduct their pre season Stallion Parades in the period August 21-25.
Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse won a Golden Slipper with a Corumbene Stud bred son of More Than Ready (USA) in Sebring and she may well win a Blue Diamond with a Corumbene Stud bred filly by the same sire in Nayeli.
The first group of breeze ups for the inaugural Inglis Sydney Ready 2 Race Sale were completed on the quality grass training track at Cranbourne in Victoria on Monday, setting an excellent benchmark for the remaining breeze ups at Canterbury and Avondale in the coming days.
Swettenham graduate Black Caviar is off the scene until the New Year and her return will be the perfect launching pad for the stud’s consignment at the 2012 Inglis Melbourne Premier yearling sale.
Rich Hill's much talked about Zabeel filly lived up to the hype when Victoria's Lakeview Resources went to $1.3million to secure her at Newmarket this afternoon.
Outstanding racemare BURGEIS is the latest stakeswinning mare to be entered in the supplementary section for next weeks 2 day Inglis Melbourne August Thoroughbred Sale which begins on Thursday August 13.
Vendors have until close of business Thursday July 9, to lodge entries into the main catalogue for the two day Inglis August Thoroughbred Sale to be held in Melbourne.