An exceptional opening day of the Easter Yearling Sale has seen a new Southern Hemisphere record set for an individual day’s aggregate as the surge for top quality bloodstock continued at Riverside.
The likes of Merchant Navy, Beat The Clock, Southern Legend, Atyaab, Crown Prosecutor, Age Of Fire and others have contributed to Inglis graduates enjoying outstanding international success in recent years and a pair of high-class winners on Friday in New Zealand and Hong Kong respectively, look to have the potential to earn their stripes as G1 winners in due course.
A record individual day of selling for the Classic Sale was one of many highlights of today’s action at Riverside that saw tears, near cyclonic weather conditions and fierce bidding across the session.
Coolmore enjoyed further Group 1 success in New Zealand today when a colt they raised by their champion stallion Fastnet Rock won the Levin Classic at Trentham at just his sixth career start.
Inglis has started its 150th-year-in-business with a bang, as never-before-seen competition saw this year’s Classic Yearling Sale comfortably finish as the best on record, with almost all key year-on-year indicators on the rise.
Early 2012/13 Australian racing season features fell the way of Snitzerland and Second Effort in very different conditions on Saturday, which marked the start of many Group 1 spring ambitions for gallopers in Sydney and Melbourne.
Group One VRC Oaks winner Mosheen was back with a bang at Caulfield today, running away to a dominant first-up victory in the Listed MRC Shadwell Stud Australasia Stakes over 1200m.
Dr Edmund Bateman has been a big player at the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale via his agent James Harron in recent years and his two big 2010 purchases Satin Shoes and Foxwedge returned to racing with a bang today.
Sadler's Wells, one of the most influential stallions of all time, has died at the age of 30. The son of Northern Dancer and sire of Derby winners Galileo and High Chaparral died in his paddock at Coolmore Stud in County Tipperary on Tuesday evening.
The combination of Widden Stud graduates at an Inglis sale struck again in the Melbourne Racing Club’s three-year-old classic today, when Anacheeva made full use of barrier one to win the $1million Group 1 Caulfield Guineas.
Multiple Group 1 winner Metal Bender returned to racing with a bang when leading home a Chris Waller trained trifecta in today’s Group 2 Warwick Stakes in Sydney.
The 2009 Global Sprint Challenge will start with a bang this weekend when Australia’s two top sprinters, Weekend Hussler and Apache Cat clash for the first time in the $500,000 Group 1 Coolmore Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington on Saturday.
The 2006 Inglis Premier Sale Session I wrapped-up in spectacular fashion at Oaklands today, with the expected strong trade materialising to bring record-breaking figures, including a new sale best price of $570,000 for a half-sister to the VRC Oaks winner SERENADE ROSE (2004 Easter $400,000).