Siblings to Winx, Preferment, Attention and a wave of recent stakes performers have arrived in Sydney and are ready for inspection ahead of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
The lucrative Inglis Race Series ventures to the picturesque Sale Turf Club this Sunday for the running of the $100,000 Turnbull Toyota Inglis Trophy, which will be preceded by the auctioning of an unbroken two-year-old colt by Swettenham Stud stallion Host.
Trainer Anthony Cummings and jockey Glen Boss have kicked off Saturday’s Run To The Rose meeting with a winner after Emerald Downs was in front at the right time to score in the Keune Handicap (1100m) at Rosehill.
Golden Archer, one of the most durable juveniles of last season, was back in stakes winning form at Caulfield today, leading off a stakes double for Inglis graduates at the meeting.
Victorian-based first season sires took centre stage as the Lee Freedman trained Masthead set up a potential Blue Diamond start when winning today’s $250,000 Inglis Premier (1200m) at Mornington.
The S$1million Aushorse Golden Horseshoe Series got off to a flying start in Singapore yesterday, with the Theo Kieser trained Kaiser (pictured) taking out the S$100,000 Inglis Melbourne Juvenile Stakes.
Young Blue Gum Farm based sire Churchill Downs sired his first winner when the Anthony Cummings trained filly Emerald Downs scored an impressive win at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
Despite the scratching of hot favourite Black Caviar, the Melbourne Premier Sale still shone brightly in today’s William Reid Stakes, with ultra-consistent Turffontein landing his second Group 1 prize.
Turffontein opened the new season Group 1 winning account for Inglis, as graduates had a field day winning seven stakes races in Melbourne and Sydney today.
Eliza Park graduates enjoyed success at the highest level at Caulfield on Saturday when SHINZIG defeated a host of Group 1 winners in the C F Orr Stakes and the exciting WILANDER established himself as one of the nation’s best juveniles when serving it up his rivals in the Arrowfield Blue Diamond Prelude (Gr 3).