The Great Southern Sale today concluded with fireworks in the ring, bringing an end to the Inglis Breeding Stock Sales Series which has been crowned “the best ever’’.
Mane Lodge front man Neil Osborne first sold at an Inglis Sale at Newmarket in 1979.
Fast forward 43 years and the 70-year-old today realised an achievement - “not a dream, because it wasn’t really anything I thought would ever realistically happen’’ – when his Extreme Choice x To Dubawi Go colt set a new Classic Sale individual price record of $825,000.
A capacity crowd in the auditorium at Oaklands provided an exceptional atmosphere on the first day of the 2016 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale, where strong competition led to records being set in the Blue Riband Session and a new top price for a filly in Melbourne.
One of the world's most popular racehorses, Hong Kong-owned Red Cadeaux has undergone successful surgery on the career-ending fetlock injury sustained during Tuesday's Melbourne Cup and will retire to Living Legends park.
Reigning Emirates Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Damien Oliver cemented his status as a legend of Australian racing when he won a record seventh Scobie Breasley Medal tonight in Melbourne.
Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse won a Golden Slipper with a Corumbene Stud bred son of More Than Ready (USA) in Sebring and she may well win a Blue Diamond with a Corumbene Stud bred filly by the same sire in Nayeli.
Gutsy filly Se Sauver defied a slugging finish, a quick-fire but unsuccessful protest and fears from her trainer and jockey that she had been beaten on the post to win the Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes.
The New South Wales Court of Appeal judgment in the case of Vieira v O'Shea handed down on March 5 has left participants in the wider thoroughbred industry wondering just where they stand.
Sydney solicitor Bill McNally has raced horses with the Wyong based Tilley family for the best part of three decades. On Monday at Muswellbrook, the long tradition continues when two-year-old Dangerous Edition makes his race debut in the MRC Function Centre 2YO Maiden over 900 metres.