HEATHERLY is tipped to improve sharply on her classy but narrow first-up win at Moonee Valley on Saturday — and she’ll have to because life is about to become pretty tough.
Last start Caulfield placegetter Palace Tycoon has topped the 2016 Inglis August Thoroughbred Sale in Melbourne today selling for $90,000 from the draft of David Moodie’s Contract Racing.
The 2016 Inglis August Thoroughbred Sale will begin at 10:00am this Friday, with supplementary entries taking the total number of lots to be offered to 258.
70 supplementary entries, including Group 2 winner Vilanova, have been added to the catalogue for the Inglis March Thoroughbred Sale that will start at 11:00am this Friday 18 March 2016 at Oaklands, Melbourne.
Trainer Chris Waller didn’t pull any punches when he described Delectation as a “frustrating horse”. But Waller also knows Delectation is loaded with latent sprinting ability and the three-year-old showed in his narrow win in the Group 2 $500,000 Arrowfield Sprint (1200m).
With arguably some of the best Weight-For-Age form in the Group 2 MVRC Australia Stakes field, Inglis Classic graduate Mourinho surprisingly started one of the outsiders of the field, but was simply too good, securing his fourth black type victory.
Synonymous as a sale with value for trainers and syndicators alike, the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale added its latest Group 1 winner to the mantelpiece, when three-year-old colt Brazen Beau claimed the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes over 1200m in emphatic fashion.
Inglis graduates Nostradamus, Sabatini and Get The Nod claimed the three Group 3 races of three-year-olds in Australia on Saturday; the ATC San Domenico Stakes, MRC Quezette Stakes and MRC Vain Stakes respectively.
Secret Admirer and The Verminator notched up a Group 1 winning double for Inglis graduates on super Saturday at Randwick today, taking out the Epsom Hcp (1600m) and Metropolitan Hcp (2400m) respectively.
The Grahame Begg-trained Secret Admirer has given apprentice Brenton Avdulla his first Group I win when they stormed home to claim the Coolmore Flight Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.
The Hudson family of Lustre Lodge were celebrating an Inglis Race Series windfall today when their filly Liesele scored a most impressive win in the Southern Cross Ten Inglis Bonus Plate (1200m) at Grafton.
Starspangledbanner’s runaway win in the Golden Jubilee Stakes (Gr 1) at Royal Ascot has propelled him to second top sprinter on the latest list of World Rankings as released by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities.