The Inglis Guineas, Inglis Challenge and Inglis HTBA Yearling Sale will feature brightly among the Scone Horse Festival that peaks this weekend with the Scone Cup Carnival.
ONE of the best younger sires in Australia at this time is Nicconi, a handsome former leading sprinter by the Danzig sire Bianconi (USA) who stands at the Widden Stud.
Bjorn Baker’s clever targeting of Inglis Race Series events continued to pay dividends today when his athletic filly Rosaleisha (Testa Rossa x Galeisha) took out the Albury Guineas over 1400m, securing along with it a $50,000 Inglis Bonus, more than doubling the total prizemoney for the race.
“Be not afraid of greatness” when searching through the catalogue of the [Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale](http://inglis.com.au/sales/info/2016+Australian+Easter+Yearling+Sale), for outstanding results with Easter graduates continue to be achieved across a range of budgets by trainers, syndicators, owners, agents and pinhookers.
ALBURY mare Loved Up enjoyed her final racetrack accolade when she was named Southern District Racing Association (SDRA) Horse of the Year on Friday night.
The four-year-old Firehouse Rock showed progressive ability today flying down the outside of the field to win the inaugural $250,000 Inglis Cup for Lindsay Park racing and in the process secured the $50,000 Inglis Race Series Trainers' Bonus for David Hayes and Tom Dabernig.
The inaugural Inglis Cup worth $250,000 has been scheduled to be run over 2000m at Caulfield on Saturday 26 September 2015 during the Spring Racing Carnival in Melbourne.
Snitzel has been churning out the juvenile winners this season adding an 18th to the tally when well bred filly Parmalove scored a tenacious debut win at Seymour on Wednesday.
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.
Nicconi filly Loved Up dominated the 16-strong field to win the $400,000 RL Scone Inglis Guineas over 1400m on the Scone Race Club’s stand-alone meeting. Trained by Brett Cavanough, Loved Up (Nicconi x Love’s Here) failed to meet her $50,000 reserve at the 2013 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale when offered from the draft of Lustre Lodge, and has now taken her earnings past $460,000 across 13 starts for 6 wins.
Uniquely, the Widden Stud in the Widden Valley, a spur off the south western end of the Hunter Valley, has two young sires in its historic stallion yards shaping up very good winner-getters who were not only brilliant Group 1 winning Australian racehorses, but also performers who turned in good efforts in one of England’s most prestigious sprints, the King’s Stand at Royal Ascot.
Owners of Nicconi filly Loved Up would today be especially glad she didn’t meet her reserve of $50,000 at the 2013 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, when she won the Three-Year-Old Albury Guineas along with the $50,000 Inglis Race Series bonus at her home track.
Brett Cavanough said he couldn’t wait to arrive on the big stage on day one of The Championships at Royal Randwick after his filly Loved Up earned a spot in the Country Series final thanks to an explosive finish to win Wagga Wagga’s $100,000 qualifying race on Sunday, March 15.