Which sires are more likely to succeed than others? It's a question broodmare owners ask themselves at this time of year as they seek to shorten the odds in their quest to find a first season sire that might one day be a champion sire.
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.
Impressive two-year-old Look To The Stars has taken her career earnings past $220,000 today with a powerful win in the $250,000 Group 2 BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Doomben defeating Blueberry Hill and Cylinder Beach.
The Gerald Ryan trained Time For War continued the prosperous Australian season for Inglis graduates in two-year-old Group level races with an all the way victory in the Group 2 BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes on Saturday.
The Team Williams reduction sale draft of 27 entries at the Inglis Melbourne Select Racehorse Sale on Friday, May 23, is racing’s version of long-awaited Boxing Day sales bargains.
She’s got a long way to go to emulate the achievements of her three-quarter sister Makybe Diva, but the future is looking bright for four year-old mare La Amistad, who scored an impressive win at Bendigo on Wednesday.