Outstanding filly She’s Extreme became the equal second-most expensive horse ever sold at an Inglis Chairman’s Sale when realising $3.4m to the bid of Coolmore at Riverside this evening.
The final field for Saturday’s $2m Inglis Millennium at Randwick has been declared, with 16 runners plus four emergencies ensuring a full field of acceptances.
As the Brisbane and Adelaide carnivals heated up today, Inglis graduates again stepped up to assert their authority with the promise of more feature-race success in weeks and months ahead.
Never before has the Classic Yearling Sale seen a day like today.
A record individual days gross, a record individual price and a record sale average has seen the first of Inglis’ select yearling sales for the 2022 season start on a high as vendors enjoyed the bloodstock boom and buyers reaped the rewards of some outstanding stock.
He may be best known for his Real Estate background but John McGrath today celebrated his first G1 winner as an owner/breeder in 25 years of trying when Dreamforce won the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill.
Jim Cassidy has ridden the racing rollercoaster so many times that he takes missing out on his final Group 1 mount in his stride.The champion jockey will retire without adding to his 104 Group 1 wins after the scratching of his VRC Oaks mount Dawnie Perfect.
THE extraordinary run of luck just keeps rolling along for Vasko Ognenovski.
The 55-year-old former driver spent $1.30 to buy the Herald Sun last year and put in one entry in the Herald Sun/Inglis Win A Share In A Racehorse competiton.
Inglis bloodstock consultant James Price will be pulling on the gloves in October to raise money for Bowel Cancer Australia, Sydney Children’s Hospital, McGrath Foundation and Network Kokoda.
Grahame Begg said Cabernet was "definitely a black type horse” after the mare produced a cracking turn of foot to upstage her rivals in the Blackwoods New Catalogue 2012 Handicap (1400m) at Rosehill on Saturday.
Yarraman Park based Magic Albert has been running hot this season, his success capped when his high class son Ilovethiscity held off all challengers to win the Group I ATC Randwick Guineas at Warwick Farm in a thrilling finish.
With the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale fast approaching, Graeme Kelly from Stallions, spoke to the sales company’s Victorian director Peter Heagney about the offering at Oaklands and other matters.
The Australasian Bloodstock industry’s Oldest and Largest auctioneers, William Inglis and Son, today announced the appointment of 39-year-old business executive Mark Webster to the position of Managing Director.
South African trainer Charles Laird made history at Newmarket tonight paying $3million for Yarraman Park’s Redoute’s Choice colt from Deja Slew (USA), bettering the previous Australian record of $2.