Five Inglis Graduates were named champions of the 2016-2017 Australian racing season at last night’s Australian Racehorse of the Year awards in Brisbane.
Mighty sprinter Chautauqua won his third consecutive TJ Smith Stakes and sixth career Group 1 while a big week of Inglis Sales received multiple significant pedigree updates.
Chautauqua will be looking to start the new season as he finished the last – as a Group 1 winner – when he resumes in tonight’s Moir Stakes at The Valley.
The Australian national anthem was played across Sha Tin this afternoon following the stunning last to first victory of Chautauqua in the Group 1 HKJC Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) ahead of fellow Inglis graduates Lucky Bubbles and Strathmore.
Superstar sprinter Chautauqua (Encosta de Lago-Lovely Jubly, by Lion Hunter), whose half-brother Radradra finished runner-up on debut at Hawkesbury yesterday, will fly out for Hong Kong on Monday night ahead of his next assignment in the Gr1 Chairman's Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin on 1 May.
Inglis Easter graduate Chautauqua confirmed his position as the best sprinter in the world today, completing back-to-back wins of the Group 1 ATC TJ Smith Stakes over 1200m at Royal Randwick.
The lightning bolt colours of prominent owner and great industry supporter Rupert Legh were first past the post in the VRC Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington today, carried to victory by Dwayne Dunn aboard Inglis graduate Chautauqua (Encosta de Lago x Lovely Jubly) in a thrilling finish to Australia's fastest Group 1 race.
Inglis graduates made their mark on the final day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington, with thrilling quinellas in both the Group 1 VRC Darley Classic and the Group 3 VRC Maribyrnong Plate.
Inglis Easter graduate Chautauqua cemented his place in history overnight delivering an absolutely phenomenal victory in the $1 million Group 1 MVRC Manikato Stakes over at Moonee Valley over1200m ahead of Srikandi and Rebel Dane.
Flemington’s first day of Melbourne’s Spring Carnival saw Inglis graduates sweep the first four races of the day, highlighted by Chautauqua’s gripping Group 2 Gilgai Stakes victory, cementing plans for a trip to Hong Kong at the end of the year.
World class sprinter Chautauqua was asked plenty of questions at his first ever start over 1000m and first look around Moonee Valley today, but the grey flash showed why people flock to racecourses to see him with a dazzling victory in the Group 2 MVRC Ian McEwen Stakes.
Chautauqua and Mongolian Khan headlined a glorious day for Inglis graduates on Day One of The Championships at Royal Randwick, claiming the Australia’s richest sprint and richest Derby respectively.
When Vasko Ognenovski entered the Inglis and Herald Sun Win A Share In A Racehorse competition in 2014 he could never have imagined that less than a year later he would own a share in the Blue Diamond favourite. Ognenovski won a 10 per cent share in exciting two-year-old filly Fontiton, along with two years of training and insurance after she was sold at the 2014 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.
Inglis graduates made an audacious run at spring riches snaring six black type races between Sydney and Melbourne on Saturday, following success in Hong Kong’s first stakes race of the new season on Wednesday. All the respective winners have eyes on Group 1 events in the coming months.
Breaths were held at Morphettville on Saturday afternoon as Inglis graduates Kushadasi and Scratchy Bottom hit the line in the 2500m Group 1 SAJC South Australian Derby.
The annual Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale Preview magazine, featuring industry articles and pedigrees of the 625 highly select yearlings entered for the world class sale, is now available online at www.inglis.com.au