Inglis graduates kicked goals across the country today winning a swag of black type at Rosehill and Caulfield, headlined by a thrilling victory by Mourinho in the Group 1 MRC Underwood Stakes.
Inglis graduates saluted in all three Group races held at Caulfield today, taking out two Group 3 Races and the first Group 2 of the season, the MRC PB Lawrence Stakes which was won by Mourinho, marking the first win at this level for Darryl Blackshaw who recently stepped up to train the gelding.
Inglis graduates Shamal Wind and Under The Louvre went one-two in the Group 1 MRC Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday, making a quinella for Robert Smerdon and Aquanita Racing-purchased yearlings.
Australian bred racehorses put on a parade at home and aboard on the Australia Day long weekend with Inglis graduates notching up stakes victories in Melbourne, Sydney, South Africa and Hong Kong.
With arguably some of the best Weight-For-Age form in the Group 2 MVRC Australia Stakes field, Inglis Classic graduate Mourinho surprisingly started one of the outsiders of the field, but was simply too good, securing his fourth black type victory.
Nearly 40% of the 2015 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book is made up of progeny by first and second season sires, a huge positive for buyers given Classic’s phenomenal record of unearthing Group 1 winners by young unproven stallions.
Further enhancements have been made to the popular Inglis Classic Yearling Sale for 2015 including first season sires incentives and revised dates to suit Inglis’ progressive sales series.
The four days of sales and races in Scone NSW are imminent with festivities kicking off this Thursday 15 May with the Inglis Scone Thoroughbred Sale at White Park.
Yearlings to be offered at the 2014 Inglis Sydney Classic Yearling Sale Summer Book are set to start arriving at Newmarket from next Tuesday, 14 January.
A number of the quality Ready 2 Race offerings have received significant pedigree updates in recent weeks including the two-year-old half-brother to Rain Drum, which saluted at Group 2 level for Gai Waterhouse on Saturday.
Hugely talented sprinter Samaready exploded back to her best at Group 1 level in Melbourne on Friday night, highlighting a bumper weekend for Inglis graduates at stakes level.
Out of the winners circle in five starts since winning at Moonee Valley last year, the Peter Gelagotis-trained Mourinho again showed a liking for the track by winning Friday’s Group 3 JRA Cup (2040m).
When Oratorio sires a stakes-winner in Western Australia we tend to assume it's Australian bred Oratorio, but in the case of Miss Solis it was Irish bred Oratorio (IRE).
Coolmore Stud and Goodwood Farm have finished at the top of Inglis’ Group 1 Vendors List for the 2011/12 Australian racing season, having sold two individual Group 1 winners each.
Inglis will be providing vendors with a new way forward to market their yearlings in 2013, with the Sydney Classic Yearling Sale to be split into two books; a Summer Book and a Winter Book.
Electric youngster Tinszelda took out the $100,000 Inglis 2YO Challenge over 1100m at Scone on Friday, collecting three times her purchase price in first place prizemoney for her three length romp.
The 2012 Scone Race Club’s two-day carnival, featuring the Inglis Challenge and Inglis Guineas, which flows into the Inglis HTBA Scone Yearling Sale, is fast approaching.
210 yearlings have been selected for the 2012 Inglis H.T.B.A Scone Yearling Sale, which will be conducted over one select day on Sunday May 20 at White Park, Scone.
Might And Power’s relation Mosheen may have been the headline act, but other Inglis graduates purchased for as low as $1,250 also recorded valuable stakes wins around Australia today.