Verona Rose (Castelvecchio) – the $40,000 Classic Yearling Sale bargain buy – scored a fourth career victory today when winning the $350,000 Inglis Bracelet at Flemington.
The next chapter in the extraordinary Winx story will be written at the 2026 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale when her Snitzel colt, her first male offspring, is offered for public auction.
Despite the sale ring stigma attached to the progeny of older mares in this part of the world, the Cox Plate quinella of So You Think and Manhattan Rain has given further impetus to the cause.
Not since the great Shannon was sold at auction has a single horse attracted as much attention as when Pillar Of Hercules was sold at public auction by William Inglis & Son Ltd at Caulfield Racecourse this morning.