Inglis Classic graduate Veight (Grunt) was hailed by his trainer as a “bloody exciting” colt after stepping up to weight-for-age and scoring a courageous win in today’s G2 Australia Stakes over 1200m at Moonee Valley.
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.
G2-winning, dual G1 placed mare Moonlight Maid headlines a typically strong Inglis Digital August (Early) Sale, which also features some intriguing lots from the continued dispersal of Shadwell’s Australian stock.
A Dundeel half sister to dual G1-winning filly Montefilia is among 311 lots catalogued in the Inglis Digital May (Early) Online Auction, which opens for bidding at 3pm today.
Powerful Easter colt Wild Ruler – a juvenile which Newgate Farm’s Henry Field believes can be “the next Russian Revolution’’ – scored a dominant debut win in today’s $500,000 Listed Inglis Nursery at Randwick.
Underlining the strength and confidence in the Victorian breeding and racing industry the Inglis VOBIS Gold Yearling Sale has recorded increases across the board for the fourth straight year.
A Newcastle-trained pair of fillies have given notice that Beneteau's second and final crop is set to match the impact made by his first runners last season.
The two day 2012 Inglis Melbourne August Thoroughbred Sale got underway at Oaklands on Thursday, with Makybe Diva’s four-year-old daughter La Dolce Diva recording the highest price when selling for $300,000.
A beautiful spring day at Flemington saw more than 15,000 racegoers turn up for the Victoria Racing Clubs 150th Melbourne Cup Carnival ‘Preview Day’ where the Turnbull Stakes was the feature event on the nine race card.