Caulfield Cup Day, the first of the Melbourne Spring Carnival majors saw brilliant performances from Inglis graduates at both Caulfield and Royal Randwick, headlined by Mongolian Khan’s brilliant performance in the Group 1 feature.
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.
The grand finale to a massive Scone Horse Festival will begin with Australia’s richest country carnival – the $2 million Scone Cup Carnival – being held across Friday 15 and Saturday 16 May, and will conclude with the Inglis Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association Scone Yearling Sale on Sunday 17 May.
If today’s results are anything to go by it is no surprise that Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse is a stalwart of the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale. Under the guidance of Gai, Easter graduates today too out a Group 1 at Flemington, and both a Group 1 and Listed race at Royal Randwick.
Scissor Kick vindicated Paul Messara's decision not to hand in his training licence yet, but The Rosebud threw up more Golden Rose questions than answers as the midweek graduate conquered his more-fancied rivals.
The Gerald Ryan trained Time For War continued the prosperous Australian season for Inglis graduates in two-year-old Group level races with an all the way victory in the Group 2 BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes on Saturday.
The $502,000 Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning (1000m) has lost none of its lustre after nominations closed today despite the race’s namesake being absent for the first time in three years.
From two-year-old brilliance in Melbourne to a tenacious middle-distance performance in Singapore, Inglis graduates got off to an auspicious start to the Year of The Horse with three stakes wins on Saturday.
Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse won a Golden Slipper with a Corumbene Stud bred son of More Than Ready (USA) in Sebring and she may well win a Blue Diamond with a Corumbene Stud bred filly by the same sire in Nayeli.
Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse won a Golden Slipper with a Corumbene Stud bred son of More Than Ready (USA) in Sebring and now she’d like to win a Blue Diamond with a Corumbene Stud bred filly by the same sire.