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.
When former Vinery Stud employee Mark Nevin paid $600 for Lady of Helena at the 2013 Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale, never in his wildest dreams did he think he would breed a G1 winner.
The best yearling James Harron has ever seen became the fifth-most expensive yearling ever sold in Australia on a record-breaking Day 1 of the Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
A rare opportunity to participate in the world’s most popular horse race has presented itself, with GPI Racing selling its slot in the 2019 The Everest.
A powerful catalogue full of Stakes-winning race mares, broodmares in foal to some of the world’s leading stallions as well as stallion shares and blueblood weanlings highlight the inaugural The Chairman’s Sale – Session II for Elite Breeding Prospects.
Success in thoroughbred breeding requires planning for the future, and producing that envisaged champion was executed perfectly by the breeders of Black Caviar and So You Think who had purchased their respective dams at an Inglis Broodmare Sale.
At the start of August last year, few punters would have been prepared to back Lonhro to win the Australian General Sires Championship, but with just over a month of the season to go the former Horse of the Year has it in the bag.
THE bulldozers, jackhammers and construction workers will move in on Royal Randwick immediately Sydney's autumn carnival ends on Easter Monday, April 25.
A newly formed alliance of racing industry participants has stepped up the fight for a better deal from wagering operators with detailed submissions to the Productivity Commission enquiry in Gambling.
RACING NSW is putting the finishing touches to a new loyalty program which the ruling body envisages will halt a decline in racehorse ownership with new players lured on board.
Inglis Managing Director Mark Webster today confirmed that the company has entered into an agreement with the Australian Jockey Club to acquire 9.5 hectares (23.75 acres) of land at Warwick Farm Racecourse.
SYDNEY’S two race clubs are seeking a substantial annual cash injection from the NSW Government, plus freedom to redevelop their racetracks as 24-hour entertainment, hospitality and gaming centres in return for agreeing to merge.
If one was to sit down and write a Press Release on the current updates to the 2007 William Inglis & Son Australian Easter Yearling Sale, it could easily turn into a thesis.