Trainer Robert Smerdon says that boom filly Fontiton (Turffontein-Personal Ensign, by Rubiton) will have to produce her best performance to date when she takes on a high class field of sprinters in Friday night's Gr1Moir Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley.
High class filly Fontiton (Turffontein-Personal Ensign, by Rubiton) will resume against some of Australia's best sprinters after pleasing trainer Robert Smerdon in a 900m jump-out at Ballarat on Sunday, reports Racenet.
High class Melbourne filly Fontiton (Turffontein-Personal Ensign, by Rubiton) is likely to be kept to sprint distances in the spring with the Gr1 Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington a possible target, reports ANZ Bloodstock News.
Fontiton's very impressive victory in the Blue Diamond Prelude for fillies at Caulfield last Saturday was an object lesson for buyers at one of Australia’s forthcoming most elite yearling markets, the Inglis Premier Sale to be conducted at Oaklands, Melbourne on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday March 1, 2, 3 and 4.
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.
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.
The Robert Smerdon trained filly Fontiton was a dominant winner of the $250,000 RL Inglis Banner to the delight of her owners, which includes the winner of the Inglis / Herald Sun Win a Share in a Racehorse Competition.
Inspections for the 2012 Inglis Melbourne Autumn Yearling Sale, which will be held over two days starting this Sunday, April 29, will begin on Anzac Day, this Wednesday.