Mudgee trainer Brett Thompson has boldly declared his filly Classical Melody is capable of upstaging her highly fancied city rivals by winning Saturday's Inglis Classic (1200m) at Rosehill.
Australian bred three year-old dominated at Turffontein in South Africa on Saturday filling the quinella in both the Group Two Vodacom Dingaans and the Group Three Gomma Gomma Fillies Mile.
PRETTY USEFUL , a Youthful Legs gelding who lived up to his name when he won the Starmaker, an annual feature event for juveniles, at the Muswellbrook Singleton Cup meeting in the Hunter Valley on Sunday, has good prospects of taking out the $100,000 Inglis Challenge at the big race day at neighbouring Scone on Friday week, May 15.
This Friday’s March Mixed sale at Oaklands Junction is highlighted by a draft of racehorses offered by leading owner Lloyd Williams, who has 39 entries in the 356 lot strong catalogue.
Set to be held this Friday, August 24, the inaugural 2007 William Inglis & Son Scone Broodmare Sale is sure to command plenty of interest from the hundreds of breeders sure to be in the Hunter Valley for the Annual Stallion Parades held over the weekend.