A trio of untapped 3YOs and a three-time Stakes-winning 4YO showed they were all in for big spring preparations with impressive first-up victories around Australia today.
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.
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.
Arguably the strongest breeze up catalogue ever collated in Australia will see a who’s who of stallions and the best Antipodean horse people represented for the Inglis Ready2Race Sale on October 12.
Breeders will be presented with another world-class rare gem when the G1-performing mare Fasika (So You Think) is offered in the Inglis Digital August (Late) Online Auction.
Entries are now open for the 2021 Inglis Ready2Race Sale, the auction that has in recent years produced the likes of dual G1 winner Nettoyer, this season’s G2-winning 2YO Lightsaber, Hong Kong star Wishful Thinker, Allibor Trumbull, See You In Spring etc.
Weanlings by - and mares in foal to - some of the most in-demand stallions in the country highlight another outstanding renewal of the Great Southern Sale.
In total, 803 yearlings have been catalogued - 620 in the Main Book and 183 in the Highway Session - for the sale at Riverside Stables on February 7-9 which will be preceded by the running of the $2m Inglis Millennium for 2YOs at Randwick on February 6th.
Names like Black Caviar or So You Think may not feature but this year’s contingent of Australian gallopers heading to Royal Ascot deserves to be respected.
South Coast trainer Bede Murray is ‘King of the Provincials’ after winning the inaugural $300,000 Provincial Championship Series Final (1400m) on The Championships Day 2 at Royal Randwick today.
The Hunter Thoroughbred Breeders Association has called for a Special Commission of Inquiry as a second Exploration Licence is referred by the NSW Government to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
Black Caviar dispelled any small doubts of running past 1200m when scoring a breathtaking victory with consummate ease in the Group One MRC C.F. Orr Stakes over 1400m in front of a huge crowd at Caulfield.
GOOD horses do strange things to those who pay their bills. Butterflies were starting to flutter for the handful of Black Caviar's owners who bobbed up at Caulfield trackwork a week or so ago.