Max Hinton had success with his mare Sophie Princess at the 2002 Melbourne Cup Carnival, nearly a decade later he snagged a Group 3 race with her daughter Sophie's Spirit which won the Herald Sun Stakes.
Fuelled by a tremendous program of racing at Randwick, the crowd turned out in droves for the opening session of the 2007 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale: a night session containing a relatively small, yet lucrative team of youngsters .