Sensational sprinter Overpass (Vancouver) scored a deserved first G1 win in emphatic fashion in the Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot this evening, capping off a red-letter day for Inglis graduates who won seven Stakes races in four States across two countries.
She was the centre of attention in the lead-up and Burnewang North’s Frankel x Vedema filly didn’t disappoint, setting multiple new benchmarks on a record-breaking Day 1 of the Great Southern Sale at Oaklands.
The most expensive colt ever sold at the Australian Weanling Sale topped today’s Day 1 action at Riverside as buyers’ thirst for quality young stock reached new heights.
Rushton Park's David Johnson admitted he’d “never done so many cards at any sale, anywhere, ever’’ than this week’s Great Southern Weanling Sale inspections so it came as little surprise when the Rushton Park-offered I Am Invincible x Private Dancer filly topped the Day 1 action at Oaklands when selling for $280,000.
Swettenham Stud has jumped the blocks with its two year-olds this season, the Victorian nursery earning black-type twice in the first two juvenile events of the season in Melbourne.
Due to adverse weather overnight The Star Ready2Race Sale breeze ups scheduled to be held at Cranbourne today have been postponed to next Monday 14 September 2015.
Trainer John Moore predicts big things next season for Exceed And Excel colt People’s Knight (pictured as a yearling) following his win at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Reigning’s win at Rosehill on Saturday recalls his stakes-winning half-sister Averau who was one of the first pin hooks sold by fledgling farm Burnewang North in 2010. This week they look forward to presenting the second-largest draft of weanlings (23) at the Melbourne Great Southern Sale commencing Sunday 21 June.
Australian and international buyers locked horns on the opening day of the 2015 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale purchasing 132 of the region’s best yearlings at a strong average of $291,667.
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.
Mauritian jockey Nooresh Juglall received an early birthday present when he drove Twodollarmuppet to a resounding victory in the $75,000 Perth Racing Trophy (1200m) on Polytrack on Sunday.
Awapuni trainer Mike Breslin predicted even better to come in the spring from Leeds after the strapping two-year-old had dug deep to win the Listed John Turkington Forestry Castletown Stakes at Wanganui today.
The Team Williams reduction sale draft of 27 entries at the Inglis Melbourne Select Racehorse Sale on Friday, May 23, is racing’s version of long-awaited Boxing Day sales bargains.
BRENT Stanley posted his biggest success of his fledgling training career when Veuvelicious registered a soft win in today’s Fernhill Handicap at Randwick.
Inglis graduates Bound For Earth, Speediness and Shoreham all scored at stakes level in Australia on Saturday, with their respective trainers harbouring Group 1 aims this Spring for the trio.