Boxing Day is always a big day for sport and in Melbourne today it was the Aussies on top at both the Melbourne Cricket Ground and at Caulfield Racecourse.
Well-travelled galloper Hour Of Peril made it a pleasing day in Brisbane for Patinack Farm on Saturday, when the four-year-old saluted in the Listed Tattersal’s Mile (1600m) at Eagle Farm.
Inglis three-year-olds Manawanui and Big Time were all the talk at Rosehill today, while the victory of Amaethon at Caulfield proved a small consolation for connections who sadly lost the galloper’s half-sister Crystal Lily yesterday.
Beautifully bred Encosta de Lago filly Kneeling claimed the scalp of proven stakes performer Hallowell Belle to win the Listed MVRC Crockett Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Easter graduates in Melbourne. Classic stars in Sydney. That was the story from Warwick Farm as Manawanui and Pane In The Glass – purchased for a pittance at a combined $77,000 - made superb returns to racing at Warwick Farm today.
Anacheeva launched from this meeting to spring superstardom 12 months ago and fellow Easter graduates Amah Rock and Kneeling may do exactly the same after ultra impressive stakes wins at Moonee Valley today.