Magical mare Bella Nipotina (Pride of Dubai) scored the win of her career at Randwick today, defying a wide run to defeat a field of world class sprinters in the G1 $20m The Everest.
The first $1m horse to ever sell at a Southern Hemisphere 2YO auction was the star of today’s Inglis Ready2Race Sale which saw the top of the market explode and pinhookers enjoy any number of dream results.
Beautifully bred colt Switzerland showed he was emphatically back on the path toward becoming another G1-winning Inglis graduate by scoring a blistering victory in today’s G2 Roman Consul Stakes over 1200m at Rosehill.
Disappointment gave way to unbridled joy for Hermitage Thoroughbreds and Arrowfield Stud when Inglis Easter graduate Lady Shenandoah secured G1 glory in today’s Darley Flight Stakes over 1600m at Randwick.
Trainer Rob Heathcote declared Inglis graduate Cosmo Centauraus the best young horse he’d had since the G1-winning Rothfire after he won on debut at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday, to reap his owners a $100,000 Inglis maidens bonus.
The Great Southern Sale today produced the highest-priced weanling colt sold this year to cap off an Inglis Breeding Stock Sales Series which has ended as the second best in history.
A 35-strong draft from powerhouse Yulong and a share in dual Stakes-winning sprinter Malkovich – who was this week confirmed as a runner in the $5m The Quokka – headline the Inglis Digital April (Early) catalogue, which is now available online.
Hugely desirable filly Autumn Ballet, Stakes winners including A Very Fine Red and De Sonic Boom as well as the dam of Saturday’s G1 Sistema Stakes winner Velocious are among a surge of recent high quality entries for The Chairman’s Sale.
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.
3YO gelding Kosgei (The Autumn Sun) set a new Australasian record for a colt/gelding in a Digital Sale when realising $750,000 to the bid of Mr Daniel Yeung/Magus Equine in today’s Inglis Digital December Online Sale.
Young horsewoman Sara Ryan has trained in her own name for less than 18 months, but this afternoon achieved the biggest win of her burgeoning career when 5YO Inglis Easter Yearling Sale graduate Attractable (I Am Invincible) took out the $3m The Big Dance over the famed mile at Royal Randwick.
Superstar galloper Think About It (So You Think) – the $70,000 Premier yearling who has now won $11m in prizemoney - conquered Australian racing’s greatest summit today when winning The Everest at Randwick.
The first foal of Champion racehorse Winx to be offered for public auction – a beautiful filly – will be the star attraction at next year’s Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.
Inglis graduate Think About It confirmed his status as Australia’s newest sprinting superstar by sealing back-to-back Group 1s with another imperious victory in today’s $3m Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm.
The second annual ‘Inglis Sunday Lunch’ – raising money for the Ingham Institute and South West Local Health District – will take place at Riverside on Sunday April 2, the day prior to the start of the Easter Yearling Sale.
Tuvalu – just the second horse Merricks Station’s Ben Cooper ever offered for sale – today became the Victorian farm’s first G1 winner when saluting in the Toorak Handicap at Caulfield.
An “absolutely amazing’’ result for TJS Bloodstock’s Simon Raleigh has topped tonight’s Inglis Digital September (Early) Online Sale, with broodmare Estonian Princess selling for $375,000.