Have we just seen the future? Is this how the bloodstock world is developing? Those were the overriding thoughts as a quite remarkable Inglis Easter Australian Yearling Sale drew to a close in Sydney on Thursday.
With five stakes victories going the way of Inglis graduates, it was an amazing period during the middle of the day when three consecutive Group 1 victories formed part of that five.
Having to survive a protest from the runner-up, VOBIS Horse of the Year Trust In A Gust gave trainer Darren Weir his first Victorian Group 1 win with victory in the MRC Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield.
Two horses dominated the last season and in many ways they are completely different. Black Caviar (Bel Esprit) dominated the sprinters, So You Think (High Chaparral) was the dominant middle-distance runner.
TOMORROW's Lightning Stakes meeting at Flemington will be delayed until Sunday unless the weather bureau can today confirm some relief from the brutal 40C-plus temperatures.