60 kg was not enough to stop Bede Murrray’s stable star Sure and Fast overpowering promising Godolphin three year-old Holler to win at his first run back from a spell at Rosehill on Wednesday.
Leading South Coast trainer Bede Murray had a lot of fun with a horse called Sure and Fast back in the seventies and is having just as much fun with the modern day version who won the $100,000 Provincial Championships Qualifer at Wyong on Thursday.
It’s been a breakout season for Darley Stud’s Exceed and Excel so it seems fitting that the champion stallion elect should put his stamp on another stakes race with his 3yo son Eximius landing Saturday’s Listed Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m).
The catalogue for the next Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, the source of undefeated Australian Horse of the Year Black Caviar and South African Horse of the Year Igugu, is now available online.
Group 1 winner Serious Speed was sold to Patinack Farm for $900,000 as the outstanding draft of mares from Toorak Park Stud grossed $3.8million on the opening day of the Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale in Sydney today.
Owing to an outstanding response from vendors, the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Broodmare Sale has been extended to four days, with 948 lots catalogued.
Having already secured the Melbourne Racing Club's Guineas double, Inglis graduates now head to Flemington with undeniable claims to clean sweep the Spring Classics, following the impressive wins by Run For Naara and Shamoline Warrior today.
Led by outstanding multiple Group 1 winning mare Forensics, Inglis graduates won half the races on the card of Australia’s most revered day of racing at Flemington today.