An “extraordinarily strong’’ Premier Yearling Sale catalogue featuring siblings to the likes of Mystic Journey, Extra Brut and Oohood is now available online.
A revamped breeding stock sale series concluded at Riverside this afternoon, with the Australian Broodmare & Weanling Sale and the Chairman’s Sale deemed an overwhelming success.
Following a record 2018 season both in and out of the sale ring, Inglis’ yearling attention has switched to next year when more horses will be sold on more days of auction as demand for top-quality yearlings continues to increase.
Inglis will move its new-look Ready2Race Sale back to Sydney and link it with the $13million The Everest as part of a host of changes to the 2018 edition.
The countdown is on to the sale that provided last year’s Golden Slipper quinella, with the final touches being put on Riverside Stables ahead of next month’s Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.
Inglis can today confirm its 2018 Sale dates, which feature an expanded Classic Yearling Sale, a revamped Easter Yearling Sale, the retention of the highly successful Chairman’s Sale (Sessions I and II) and more monthly online auctions.
A “wonderfully successful’’ Inglis Chairman’s Sale – a new concept on the Australasian sales scene – has seen unbeaten 2YO Gunnison become the highest-priced gelding ever sold at auction in Australia at $1.4 million.
Mighty mare Jameka will take on the world later this year, but her trainer Ciaron Maher remains unsure exactly where and when that summit will be targeted.
The final Heat of the Inglis 55 Second Challenge series for 2016/17 was run at Moonee Valley on Friday evening, with Sirbible’s time of 55.84 seconds for the 955m sprint remaining on top.
Today’s March Thoroughbred Sale at Oaklands Junction was the final Inglis auction before a big fortnight in Sydney takes centre stage in late March/early April as the curtain falls on Newmarket.
Highgrove Stud’s Ron Gilbert celebrated his third career Group 1 – and sire on fire Snitzel his 21st Stakes winner of the season – when 2YO Summer Passage won Thursday’s Sistema Stakes at Ellerslie.
Stakes-placed mares in foal, stallion prospects and metropolitan winners are among a plethora of Supplementary entries received for Friday’s March Thoroughbred Sale.
A powerful catalogue full of Stakes-winning race mares, broodmares in foal to some of the world’s leading stallions as well as stallion shares and blueblood weanlings highlight the inaugural The Chairman’s Sale – Session II for Elite Breeding Prospects.