Few current performers in Australia are more blue blooded than Delectation, the four-year-old gelding who provided the Waller training colossus with a new Group 1 winner when he beat superstar sprinter Chautauqua in winning the million dollar Darley Classic (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday November 7.
Jim Cassidy has ridden the racing rollercoaster so many times that he takes missing out on his final Group 1 mount in his stride.The champion jockey will retire without adding to his 104 Group 1 wins after the scratching of his VRC Oaks mount Dawnie Perfect.
Black Caviar, the queen of Australian racing, saluted in front of Queen Elizabeth II at Royal Ascot in England on Saturday, adding the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes to her growing list of 22 victories from 22 starts.
Graduates of the Inglis Sydney Classic Sale have enjoyed a remarkable 12 months of success and the catalogue for the 2009 renewal of the sale is now online.