An “extraordinary’’ Easter Yearling Sale catalogue is close to being finalised as breeders flock to the sale widely regarded as the ‘Best of the Best’.
A “truly stunning’’ catalogue of 514 of the southern hemisphere’s best yearlings will be offered at this year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
An elite catalogue of 534 top-level yearlings will be the focus of the world’s thoroughbred industry at the 2018 Australian Easter Yearling Sale at Riverside Stables from April 9-11.
As a brother to Group 1 Lightning Stakes heroine Snitzerland, much was expected of Sooboog, but the son of Snitzel has often been the bane of punters as well as owner Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum who shelled out $1.5 million to secure the chestnut as a yearling.
Spirited bidding from the diverse buying bench saw increases in key metrics across the board at the end of the second day of the 2016 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, with 87 per cent of lots cleared at an average of $115,541 so far.
The lightning bolt colours of prominent owner and great industry supporter Rupert Legh were first past the post in the VRC Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington today, carried to victory by Dwayne Dunn aboard Inglis graduate Chautauqua (Encosta de Lago x Lovely Jubly) in a thrilling finish to Australia's fastest Group 1 race.
With $500,000 prizemoney, black type status and additional prizes from Swarovski and Antler, 29 two-year-olds from Australia’s leading trainers will step out to contest the next instalments of the Inglis Race Series this Saturday. The RL Inglis Classic at Randwick and the RL Inglis Premier at Caulfield will be run 25 minutes apart, both over over 1200m.
Leading Victorian nursery Three Bridges Thoroughbreds are bringing a select draft of three to Sydney for the 2015 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale and one of those youngsters has a very important pedigree update and is unique at this sale as the only grey yearling by exciting first season sire Foxwedge.
Inspections are well underway at Inglis’ Oaklands complex of the 782 lots catalogued for the 2015 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale. Superhero achievements on the racetrack have created a scintillating buzz around this year’s sale, including that of Fontiton, the favourite for Saturday’s $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes.
With a legacy like that of the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale, it is no wonder that with only ten days to go that the industry is positively buzzing. The 2015 edition of the sale that unearthed superheroes of the turf including Black Caviar, Fawkner, Snitzerland, Trust In A Gust, Sacred Kingdom and Blue Diamond favourite Foniton, will begin 12 noon on Sunday 1 March.
Tony McEvoy has his sights firmly on the $1million Group 1 MRC Blue Diamond Stakes later this month following his stable quinella of Stoker and Manhattan Blues in the $250,000 RL Inglis Premier at Sandown today.
The start of Inglis’ Select Yearling Sales Season for 2015 is only a few days away, but for graduates of last year’s sales Saturday promises to be a great stepping stone in their racetrack careers with $500,000 in Inglis Race Series prizemoney on the line.
$500,000 in Inglis Race Series prizemoney is set to be paid out in less than four weeks with the $250,000 Inglis Classic and $250,000 Inglis Premier races both to be conducted on Saturday 7 February 2015.
Racetrack Superheroes are made at the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale and the 2015 edition of the champion making sale in Melbourne has been produced ready for research.
Gai Waterhouse and John O'Shea have the numbers at Monday's official two-year-olds' trials on the Kensington track at Randwick, but it is Team Hawkes' three representatives which will command most attention on the day.
Inglis graduates Nostradamus, Sabatini and Get The Nod claimed the three Group 3 races of three-year-olds in Australia on Saturday; the ATC San Domenico Stakes, MRC Quezette Stakes and MRC Vain Stakes respectively.
Entries into the $5 million Inglis Race Series for rising 2YOs that were offered at Inglis Yearling Sales this year are set to close tomorrow, 31 July 2014.