A filly and a colt both directly targeted at the Classic Yearling Sale to “stand out from the crowd’’ strongly rewarded their owners today as Inglis’ live sales season started on a positive note.
Unbeaten Easter colt Fireball (Snitzel) surged into equal third favourite for the G1 Golden Slipper with a powerful victory in today’s $2m Inglis Millennium at Randwick.
Unbeaten filly Well Written (Written Tycoon) produced one of the most explosive performances seen on a New Zealand racetrack in years when winning today’s $1.5m Karaka Million 3YO at Ellerslie.
It was a fairytale result in today’s $400,000 Listed Inglis Nursery at Randwick as the $1250 Inglis Digital bargain buy Where’s The Circus (Trapeze Artist) and his “battling trainer’’ Paul Murray defeated some of the industry’s biggest players on the biggest stage.
Feature 3YO spring races like the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes and G1 Thousand Guineas loom for some of today’s Stakes-winning Inglis graduates as a trio of stars won features at Moonee Valley.
The Inglis Millennium form was franked in the best way possible at Randwick today when its quinella of Rivellino and Within The Law won the feature 2YO races and key Golden Slipper lead-ups.
Unbeaten 2YO Rivellino (Too Darn Hot) – a colt that had “so much swagger to him and thought he was the king of Riverside’’ - scored a thrilling victory in today’s $2m Inglis Millennium at Randwick.
Unbeaten filly Within The Law (Lucky Vega) will aim to become the first horse to win the $2m Inglis Triple Crown following her victory in today’s $500,000 Inglis Nursery at Randwick.
Scott Darby’s extraordinary affinity with the Classic Yearling Sale continued at Flemington today when $30,0000 bargain buy Within The Law (Lucky Vega) won the $500,000 Listed Inglis Banner.
Smart mare Running By (Impending) scored the biggest victory of her career to date when winning today’s $350,000 Inglis Bracelet on Oaks Day at Flemington.
Exciting 3YOs Autumn Glow (The Autumn Sun) and Angel Capital (Harry Angel) continued on their winning ways today with equally dominant performances in their penultimate runs before G1 quests await.
G1-winning jockey-turned-trainer Peter Robl enjoyed one of the biggest wins of his training career today, when Overfull powered home in the $200,000 Inglis 2YO Challenge at Scone.
South Australian breeder Brenton Parker never thought he’d live to see the day he would breed and race a G1 winner but that all changed today when talented mare Benedetta (Hellbent) won the Goodwood Handicap at Morphettville.
Marvellous mare Zougotcha (Zoustar) and fabulous filly Autumn Angel (The Autumn Sun) produced career-best performances to secure G1 wins at Randwick on Day 2 of The Championships today.
They say timing is everything in this industry and Glenlogan Park’s Steve Morley’s certainly wasn’t complaining when his half sister to Saturday’s $2m Inglis Millennium winner Fully Lit topped the final day of the Classic Yearling Sale.
Talented entire Attrition (Churchill) ensured his breeder Harry Perks enjoyed “the day of a lifetime’’ when his G1 Toorak Handicap victory gave Perks a third Stakes winner for the day.
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.
Exciting filly Benedetta (Hellbent) announced herself as a star on the horizon of Australian racing with an explosive victory in today’s $750,000 Inglis Sprint at Flemington.