4YO Kimochi brought the Yulong racing empire its seventh G1 for the spring and ended a frustrating run of top-level placings with a stirring breakthrough victory in Saturday’s Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes over 1400m at Caulfield.
Tenacious stayer Red Aces (Dundeel) firmed into a $7 second favourite with Ladbrokes for next Saturday’s G1 Victoria Derby following his tough victory in today’s traditional lead up, the G2 Vase at Moonee Valley.
The first Inglis Digital Online Auction of 2021 has become the third consecutive sale to gross more than $2.3 million and another excellent clearance rate of 84%.
“Last year we won The Everest, this year we win The Kosciuszko. Throw a Melbourne Cup in between and it’s been a pretty handy 12 months for the Kitchwin Hills team.’’
There’s no two ways about it – Inglis stars Ole Kirk, Dirty Work, Wild Ruler and Ain’tnodeeldun are four of the most valuable colts and entires in Australian racing following big-race wins on another phenomenal day of G1 racing.
Videos of this week’s Seymour and Eagle Farm Ready2Race breeze ups – which has seen some of the fastest times of the past decade recorded - are now available online at inglis.com.au.
Talented Premier Sale colt Dawn Passage (Dawn Approach) will be given his chance at G1 level during the Queensland carnival following another dominant victory in today’s Listed Inglis 3YO Guineas at Rosehill.
An unreserved reduction sale comprising 18 broodmares and one weanling from Woodside Park – plus the Stakes-performed colt Trope – headline a boom Inglis Digital March (Late) Online catalogue.
A three-quarter-sister to G1 winner Arcadia Queen has topped the first bi-monthly Online Sale for Inglis Digital, selling for $160,000 to Graham and Linda Huddy of Peachester Lodge.
Pierro colt Bellevue Hill (ex Bellevue Girl) dominated the G3 The Schweppervescence at Rosehill with a strong all the way win to mark himself one of the best 2YO colts in Australia.
History was made at Randwick on Saturday when the new training partnership between Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott tasted their first success with exciting Snitzel colt Thronum carrying the Sun Stud colours to victory in the Listed ATC Rosebud.
Buyer competition continued strongly on the third day of selling at the 2016 Inglis Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale at Newmarket, building the clearance rate to an impressive 88% with local, interstate and overseas investors all adding to a diverse buying bench.
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.
Some of the exceptional two and three-year-olds to be sold at The Star Ready2Race Sale have begun arriving at Inglis’ Newmarket Complex in Sydney. Official inspections will begin Sunday 4 October.
An unraced 3-year-old daughter of Al Maher by the name of Lady Sansa (pictured as a yearling) is beginning to excite an ownership group comprising of past and present employees of Inglis Bloodstock and managed on their behalf by two very closely connected racing families.
Uniquely, the Widden Stud in the Widden Valley, a spur off the south western end of the Hunter Valley, has two young sires in its historic stallion yards shaping up very good winner-getters who were not only brilliant Group 1 winning Australian racehorses, but also performers who turned in good efforts in one of England’s most prestigious sprints, the King’s Stand at Royal Ascot.