A $10,000 Inglis Digital broodmare sent to a first season stallion on a $10,000 service fee produced a $47,500 Australian Weanling Sale graduate who today won the G1 $2m Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield.
Marvellous mare Montefilia (Kermadec) continued her progression towards the G1 Melbourne Cup with a dominant win in today’s $2m G2 Hill Stakes at Rosehill.
Aquis Farm’s decision to buy into Domesday colt Extra Brut earlier this week paid immediate dividends when the 3YO won today’s Group 1 Victoria Derby at Flemington.
OMEI Sword stormed into Golden Rose contention with an arrogant win at Royal Randwick on Saturday but whether she lines up in the Group 1 feature remains to be seen.
Talented O’Reilly mare Dublin Lass (pictured as a yearling) has threatened to win a stakes race for some time and got the job done at Doomben on Saturday when she unleashed her trademark burst of acceleration to power clear and win the Listed BRC Bright Shadow Quality.
Trainer Brett Cavanough landed the biggest pay day of his successful career after his brilliant filly Loved Up scored an impressive victory in the $403,300 Inglis 3YO Scone Guineas, (1400 metres) on Saturday.
The Robert Smerdon-trained Fontiton looks destined to follow other fillies Earthquake, Miracles Of Life and Samaready and take home the $1 million Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes.
Impeccable colt Zululand stamped himself as a serious Group 1 player for The Championships in Sydney with a barnstorming victory in the time-honoured Gr.2 VRC Sires' Produce Stakes over 1400m at Flemington on Saturday.
Upbeat three-year-olds Not Listenin’tome and Jazz Song created plenty of noise over the weekend with strong victories at Group 3 level moving into the Autumn Carnival.
Talented High Chaparral (IRE) three year-old Photon Willie resumed from a spell at Randwick on Wednesday to score an impressive victory, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing for the expensive colt.
Bargain yearling sale purchase Koonoomoo took her earnings to $340,000 with a breakthrough Group 3 victory in the VRC Herald Sun Stakes (1400m) at Flemington today.
It wouldn’t be a Melbourne Spring Carnival at Flemington without the Cummings name coming to the fore and at this year’s opening day it was Anthony who took the limelight with Fiveandahalfstar winning the day’s $1.5million feature, the Group 1 VRC Victoria Derby (2500m).
Snitzerland confirmed her position as the top three-year-old sprinting filly in Australia with a gutsy victory against the males in the Group 2 VRC Danehill Stakes at Flemington.
On a drying track at Glorious Goodwood in England the Australian bred sprinter Ortensia was able to unleash her electrifying turn-of-foot to defeat a big field in the Group 2 King George Stakes (1000m), adding another international Group win to her resume.
Globe-trotting Aussie sprinter Ortensia finally got conditions to suit overnight at Glorious Goodwood in the UK where she powered clear to win the Group II Gordon's King George Stakes.
Stratum filly Proper Madam put in an impressive last-to-first performance in the Inglis Bonus Handicap over 1200m at Caulfield on Saturday, netting a lucrative $100,000 Inglis Race Series Bonus for her connections.
Top sprinting three-year-old colt Foxwedge was made to earn his maiden Group One against a world class field at Moonee Valley tonight, using his electrifying turn-of-foot to sweep past his rivals to victory in the MVRC William Reid Stakes (1200m).