Which sires are more likely to succeed than others? It's a question broodmare owners ask themselves at this time of year as they seek to shorten the odds in their quest to find a first season sire that might one day be a champion sire.
The final major breeding stock sale for 2015, the Inglis Great Southern Sale will be held in just a little over two weeks, across four days on 21, 22, 23 and 24 June at Inglis’ Oaklands Complex in Melbourne. The 724-strong catalogue is full of opportunities to secure stock form some of Australia’s richest Thoroughbred families, with over 50 weanlings offered out of stakes-performing dams, and no less than 37 broodmares on offer being stakes-performers themselves.
Impressive two-year-old Look To The Stars has taken her career earnings past $220,000 today with a powerful win in the $250,000 Group 2 BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Doomben defeating Blueberry Hill and Cylinder Beach.
The Gerald Ryan trained Time For War continued the prosperous Australian season for Inglis graduates in two-year-old Group level races with an all the way victory in the Group 2 BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes on Saturday.