A $200,000 Inglis Easter purchase from the Newgate Farm draft for David Ellis, the well-related two year-old Stratum colt Summer Monsoon delivered the right result when he proved too slick for his rivals at Te Rapa.
Champion racehorse and sire Lonhro wowed the crowds at the annual Darley stallion parade on Saturday and also provided us with two impressive debut winners at Cranbourne on Sunday with spring goals on their agenda.
Up and coming trainer Bjorn Baker celebrated his first winner for high profile owner/breeder John Singleton when blue-blooded More Than Ready (USA) filly Killcareless broke the ice at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
The transfer of the Group II Villiers Stakes from its historic venue at Randwick to Warwick Farm -- due to the extensive makeover of the former -- has cost the superbly-bred stallion Al Maher some rare bragging rights.
Fairway Thoroughbreds were in the news last weekend for breeding and selling Group I SAJC Australasian Oaks winner Invest and were back in the winner's circle at the Gold Coast on Saturday with royally bred filly Florentina, who they elected to retain.
Despite the sale ring stigma attached to the progeny of older mares in this part of the world, the Cox Plate quinella of So You Think and Manhattan Rain has given further impetus to the cause.
Tony Santic's Makybe has entered a draft of outstanding fillies and mares as part of its annual reduction for June's Inglis Australian Weanling and Breeding Stock Sale, for which entries close today.
The 2009 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale has been further boosted by the announcement that Mr Yaseen, owner of perhaps Australia's most valuable broodmare, Shantha’s Choice, has decided to enter the mare's Encosta De Lago colt for next year's sale.
Solid metropolitan and provincial presence from Victoria as well as interstate competition from as far away as Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland, was the catalyst for a record opening day’s trade at the William Inglis & Son Autumn Yearling Sale.