A $65,000 broodmare purchase from last year has today produced the top-priced lot at the record-breaking Australian Weanling Sale when a Capitalist x Laylia weanling realised $400,000 at Riverside.
Master Victorian trainer Darren Weir has already turned water into wine with Trust In A Gust, who has gone from a bargain buy to a $2 million stallion. But a third Group 1 triumph for Trust In A Gust, in Saturday’s BTC Cup (1200m) at Doomben, would give Weir an extra slice of personal satisfaction.
Stephen Theodore unveiled an exciting juvenile colt in today’s $250,000 Inglis Banner (1000m) at Moonee Valley, with Crack A Roadie finishing best to take out the valuable two-year-old Inglis Race Series event.