An emotional Verna Metcalfe of Middlebrook Valley Lodge celebrated “an awesome result’’ as an Exceed And Excel colt she offered for long-time client Kate Gadsby topped Day 1 of the Australian Weanling Sale at Riverside.
Siblings to multiple G1 winners and youngsters by stallions from a hugely exciting crop of first season stallions headline a stunning Inglis Weanling Sales Series in July.
Quality mare Ortensia is on track for a breakthrough Group 1 win in the Burswood Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) at Ascot on Saturday after drawing ideally in barrier two.
On arguably Australia’s best day of racing, Hurtle Myrtle defeated the country’s best fillies and mares over a mile to claim her first Group One victory in the VRC Myer Classic.