There were emotional scenes at Riverside today as the Tyreel Stud team watched one of their favourite fillies Coco Sun (The Autumn Sun) win the G1 South Australian Derby at Morphettville.
She was the centre of attention in the lead-up and Burnewang North’s Frankel x Vedema filly didn’t disappoint, setting multiple new benchmarks on a record-breaking Day 1 of the Great Southern Sale at Oaklands.
An extraordinary two days of trade at Riverside has seen the Easter Yearling Sale rise against pre-sale trepidation and an industry-wide market correction to again assert itself as the ‘Best of the Best’ yearling sale in the Southern Hemisphere.
Nature Strip’s G1 Moir Stakes win and Shadow Hero announcing himself as one of Australia’s leading 3YOs have headlined another stellar weekend of performances by Inglis graduates.
Redzel created racing history at Randwick today, securing back-to-back wins in The Everest and cementing himself as one of Australia’s greatest ever sprinters.
A multitude of new records – top price, average, median and gross – assured the annual HTBA Scone Yearling Sale was a resounding success at White Park today.
She Will Reign will back up in Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Nursery after producing arguably the best 2YO performance of the season in winning on debut at Kembla Grange today.
Like anyone watching Abbey Marie’s commanding performance in Saturday’s Schweppes Australasian Oaks at Morphettville, Peter Anastasiou was mightily impressed.
Future racetrack stars to be offered at The Star Ready2Race Sale were on display this week at breeze ups held at Cambridge, New Zealand and Canterbury, Sydney.
In the twenty times that the Group Two Schillaci Stakes has been run as a part of the Caulfield Cup carnival, it has been won by some of racing’s true stars.
GLAMOUR filly Snitzerland is one step away from a breakthrough Group 1 success, while improving two-year-old All The Talk booked himself a start in the Golden Slipper as Inglis graduates landed a stakes treble at Warwick Farm today.
Robert Smerdon trained filly Shamal Wind showed her opposition a dazzling turn-of-foot at Flemington on Oaks Day, running away to an ultra-impressive two length victory in the Listed VRC Gucci Icons of Heritage Stakes (1200m).