Group 1-winning mare Royal Merchant (Merchant Navy) and Group 2 scorer Estriella (I Am Invincible) have been announced as the latest entries for May’s Inglis Chairman’s Sale. Estriella is a three-time stakes winner of the Caulfield Sprint (Gr 2, 1000m), Peter Le Grand Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) and Sunlight Classic (Listed, 1100m) and, having been... Read More

Jeff Kruger was delighted to have bought a mare in-foal to Earthlight (Shamardal) at a 2023 broodmare sale for just $26,000. The next thing he did was go and find out what he could about Earthlight. Lyndhurst Stud’s director thought the mare – the stakes-placed Sanadaat (Not A Single Doubt) – had the right sireline... Read More

A $500,000 filly with a timely link to Saturday’s Australian Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Feroce (Super Seth) topped a second day which closed an Inglis Premier Yearling Sale which not only defied downturn fears but was described by Inglis’s Sebastian Hutch as “verging on extraordinary”. At the close of selling on Monday, the sale’s... Read More

Motree Thoroughbreds’ Mandy Gunn will be taking some French champagne back to her north-east Tasmanian farm, where in one regard she leads a relatively isolated life. Having long bred cattle and sheep, she decided to try her hand at horses around 16 years ago. Away from the state’s traditional equine hotbed, she thus found herself... Read More

A colt by Frankel (Galileo) bought by American heavyweight John Stewart in a new partnership with Team McEvoy, and a son of Toronado (High Chaparral) described by respected breeder Ric Jamieson as possibly his best product of the year shared top billing at $1 million on a reasonably robust first day at Inglis Premier on... Read More