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Inglis Easter Yearling Sale

Too Darn Hot colt fetches $2.2 million as Inglis Easter Yearling Sale draws to a close

Trevor Marshallsea

ANZ News

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Lot 288: Too Darn Hot ex Enbihaar colt (Credit: Inglis)

A $2.2 million colt by star shuttler Too Darn Hot (Dubawi) bought partly by the stallion’s co-owners - Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Watership Down Stud - topped the second session of a mixed bag of an Inglis Easter Yearling Sale, which closed at Riverside on Monday.

The colt, who is out of the Group 2-winning and Group 1-placed Enbihaar (Magnus), was bought from Widden Stud’s draft by Watership Down in union with trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, along with agent Johnny McKeever. They edged out Ciaron Maher’s bloodstock manager Will Bourne in a tense bidding duel.

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But his purchase amid a booming list of 26 seven-figure lots - two off the sale’s 2008 record - couldn’t disguise the fact that Inglis was left frustrated over an auction that couldn’t fulfil its potential.

Inglis Bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch’s pre-sale fears that Easter 2026 would be impinged by uncertainty created by the war in Iran appeared to be vindicated in more than one area.

While the average was a sale record of $464,108, a decreased year-on-year gross figure and a clearance rate of 76 per cent - down from 86 per cent in 2025 - left Inglis lamenting over what might have been.

After withdrawals, the sale offered 28 more horses than last year - 415 to 387 - but sold 18 fewer yearlings, at 314 to 332.

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This led to a drop in the gross figure, which on Monday night stood at $145,730,000 compared to $150,035,000 at the same stage last year.

Inglis had assembled a catalogue, backed up by the type of yearlings that met the eye, hailed by many as the finest gathered for Easter, the southern hemisphere’s most important yearling sale and the one justifiably marketed as “the best of the best”.

However, as evidence of a two-paced sale emerged - the top end robust and the bottom half particularly sticky - a high rate of lots passed in prevailed as many breeders, plagued by high production costs, took their horses home.

A total of 472 lots were catalogued, with ultimately 415 offered, and 100 were passed in. In 2025, 421 were catalogued, 386 offered, and just 47 passed in.

Hutch praised the work of his team, but couldn’t hide his frustration.

“We were very aware of the challenges [of] the war in the Middle East … the knock-on effect of that to the market and the approach of buyers - and in many respects that has been a big factor here,” Hutch told reporters at the close of trading.

“There are lots of little things we’ll look at. I think the primary thing we’d like to have improved is the clearance. We talk about the two things being important, the clearance and the gross. If you have good clearance that helps drive the gross.

“Clearance is off where we would like it to be and hence the gross is off where we’d like it to be. That’ll improve tonight and into tomorrow, but the market forces or market sentiment has ultimately hindered the sale from getting to where it probably should have got to.”

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He added: “At all levels of the market confidence is crucially important, for vendors or buyers.

“Ultimately, it would appear certain profiles of buyers just weren’t that confident coming into the sale, given all that’s going on, and as a consequence, they were more discerning, more selective, less inclined to want to be forgiving of any vetting issues.”

Some analysts highlighted the larger number of fillies at the sale in pondering its flatter results.

In 2025, 187 fillies were catalogued against 234 colts. This time around, there were 245 fillies and 227 colts. Some wondered whether breeders were more inclined to take home their fillies due to their breeding potential, although of the 100 passed in lots, only 48 were female and 52 male.

“Given the profile of a lot of those fillies,” Hutch said, “there was a certain percentage of fillies that didn’t sell that vendors weren’t inclined to sell unless they hit a certain number.

“That’s entirely understandable with fillies. It’s hard to buy mares, it’s hard to develop pedigrees, so if they weren’t getting the right money for a filly they were happy to keep it. It’s not always the case with a colt.”

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The market forces or market sentiment has ultimately hindered the sale from getting to where it probably should have got to

Sebastian Hutch

Still, Hutch added: “I don’t think it [lowered confidence] affected any particular part of the market. It’s just a confidence thing.”

In robust news at the top end, after eight seven-figure lots were sold on Sunday, 18 were moved on Monday, headed by the $2.2 million Lot 288, and two that fetched $2 million.

As was widely anticipated, the sale was a veritable coronation parade for Newgate Farm’s siring sensation Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt), through ten lots offered from the stallion’s first crop conceived following his ascension to the service fee stratosphere, at $275,000.

From nine sold, he emerged with five of the ten highest-priced lots. After topping day one through his $3 million colt bought from Lime Country Thoroughbreds by Coolmore’s Tom Magnier, on Monday his highlight was his $2 million colt second foal of American mare Giza Goddess (Cairo Prince), bought by Yulong from Newgate’s draft.

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Extreme Choice was the sale’s leading sire by averages, at $1.56 million - more than double second-best Too Darn Hot, at $752,000.

Newgate’s superstar ranked fourth by aggregate ($14.1 million) with his nine sellers dwarfed by the three above him. The late Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice) topped that chart with 32 yearlings sold for $19.2 million. I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) had 30 moved for $18.4 million. And Zoustar (Northern Meteor) had 26 sold for $17.7 million.

Only two of Extreme Choice’s nine sellers fell short of seven figures, and they fetched $900,000 and $800,000.

He also ensured Newgate finished as the sale’s leading vendor by average, with 18 sold at $868,000, ahead of Widden Stud’s $759,000. Newgate finished third by its aggregate of $15.6 million behind Arrowfield (45 sold for $19.1 million), and Widden (22 for $16.7 million).

Leading sires by average lot price

Extreme Choice (9 sold)
$1.6M
Too Darn Hot (9 sold)
$751.7K
Zoustar (26 sold)
$681K
I Am Invincible (30 sold)
$613.5K
Snitzel (32 sold)
$600.2K
Leading sires by average with three or more lots sold

Leading buyer was Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock, purchasing for GSA Racing’s Jonathan Munz. The pair bought 15 lots for $8.8 million to top the chart ahead of Newgate’s seven for $5.7 million.

Newgate managing director Henry Field said the sale reflected the results of sub-fertile sensation Extreme Choice - who has 18 stakes winners including six elite victors at 12.5 per cent of runners - and the quality of his current crop of yearlings.

“It’s such an extraordinary line up of yearlings by Extreme Choice,” Field said. “It does not surprise me that they’ve sold so well, because the collection of them is phenomenal. I’m really pleased with it.”

While Extreme Choice topped the sale, Monday’s high mark went to Lot 288, the Too Darn Hot brother to Too Darn Lizzie.

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It does not surprise me that they’ve sold so well, because the collection of them is phenomenal

Henry Field

The successful bidding triumvirate had also purchased Too Darn Lizzie, from her sire’s first Australian crop, for $1 million at Magic Millions Gold Coast. Too Darn Lizzie earned Group 2 success and an elite placing before being bought by Maher for $2.4 million at last year’s Inglis Chairman’s sale.

Monday’s colt also represented a huge pinhooking success and a tick for the judgment of the nascent Equine Growth Fund, who announced themselves by making him top lot at last year’s Inglis Australian Weanling Sale, buying him for $775,000.

Alongside the runaway success of Too Darn Hot - who covered 110 mares at a fee of $275,000 at the Australian farm of co-owners Darley last spring - the Lloyd-Webbers also clearly like putting back into the industry here.

While musicals maven Andrew, or Lord Lloyd-Webber, has remained at home in Britain, his wife Madeleine, or Baroness Lloyd-Webber - the former equestrian who’s the main force behind Watership Down - has been in Australia, and was present at Riverside on Sunday.

Lot 451: Snitzel ex Ms Bad Behavior colt (Credit: Inglis)

Her visit has coincided with the latest Sydney run for Lord Lloyd-Webber’s famed musical The Phantom of the Opera, staged on the harbourside waterfront.

And in a gesture of thanks, the Lloyd-Webbers treated around 100 racing people - including many breeders who have patronised Too Darn Hot - to a performance of Phantom last week.

“It was a wonderful night in an amazing location, and it was a very nice thing for Madeleine to do, to give back to a lot of people who’ve supported the stallion,” McKeever said.

And on Monday, Baroness Lloyd-Webber did her bit to support Inglis Easter, bidding over the phone via Watership Down’s Simon Marsh who was on site, to secure the Too Darn Hot-Enbihaar colt, bred by Victoria’s HMB Trust.

“I’m absolutely delighted,” Marsh said. “The first time I saw him I said to Johnny ‘We’re going to have to have this horse’.”

Too Darn Hot was held back from shuttling in 2024 before Watership Down and Darley moved to capitalise on his early success by returning him south last year. Marsh said “the intention is to bring him back” to Australia this spring.

In a highly competitive sale in which they’d been under-bidder on more than one expensive lot, Yulong were ecstatic to secure their Extreme Choice-Giza Goddess colt - Lot 327 - for $2 million.

“He ticked every box when we saw him. He was moving well, and we believe he could be a very good racing horse in the future,” said general manager Jun Zhang.

That $2 million figure was matched by Lot 451, Arrowfield’s brother to Coolmore Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) hero and present-day sire at that farm, Switzerland (Snitzel). The fourth foal of Canadian mare Ms Bad Behavior (Blame) was knocked down to Coolmore and major buyer James Harron, a partnership not too often seen, but one conceived in this case by Harron.

“He’s an awesome horse, and obviously the mare’s done a fantastic job,” Harron said. “You’re always delighted to get a horse of that calibre, and it’s great to team up with Coolmore.

“I had a chat to the [Coolmore] guys and said, ‘Why don’t we get together instead of taking each other on?’ It made a lot of sense. We’ve been friends for a long time, I used to work there, we’ve got a great relationship and hopefully we have some luck with this horse.”

Lot 255: Extreme Choice ex Cicatrix filly (Credit: Inglis)

Monday’s fourth top yearling was Lot 383, a filly from the penultimate crop of Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice), offered by the late stallion’s farm Arrowfield Stud, who was bought online by Equine Holdings of NSW for $1.8 million.

The filly is a sister to Lazzura - who won her fifth stakes race when successful in Rosehill’s Coolmore Classic (Gr 1, 1500m) earlier in the month - out of winning Japanese mare Laguna Azzura (Heart’s Cry).

“She was a well looked-at horse. She’s a lovely filly with a full sister winning a Group 1 recently. She’s got a lot of residual value, so we’re very pleased,” said Arrowfield’s Paul Messara, admitting to a “bittersweet” tinge given’s Snitzel’s death last June.

Extreme Choice also had two lots sell for $1.6 million on Monday, both from his farm Newgate’s draft.

Early in the day went Lot 255, a filly out of US Listed winner Cicatrix (Violence) - the dam of Australian Group 1 placed gelding Mayfair (Fastnet Rock). She became part of Hawthorne and Munz’s vast haul.

Sale statistics - Overall*

2026

2025

Catalogued

472

421

Offered

415

386

Sold

315 (76%)

332 (86%)

Aggregate

$145,880,000 (-2.7%)

$150,035,000

Average

$464,108 (+2.6%)

$451,913

Median

$350,000 (-2.7%)

$360,000

Top Lot

$3,000,000

$3,000,000

* stats from 2025 are taken at the close of trade on day 2

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“Extreme Choice is a great sire. His progeny don’t come along in big numbers, so when the good ones come along you’ve got to take a chance to grab them,” said Hawthorne, who helps manage Munz’s team of some 90 broodmares.

“She just had enough scope to go somewhere and moved really, really well.”

Late on, Extreme Choice’s Lot 436 - a colt fourth foal out of Group 3 winner Miss Exfactor (Your Song) - was knocked down for the same price to Sir Owen Glenn’s Go Bloodstock and trainer Michael Freedman.

“I really liked him,” said Freedman, whose recent rise as a trainer since going solo was reflected in his involvement with four seven-figure lots at the sale - more than any other trainer.

“I actually saw him at the Gold Coast but he was withdrawn from that sale to come here. When I saw him in the sale ground I actually thought he looked better than he did up at the Gold Coast.

“He just had a huge presence about him and a great action. Just the fact he’s so physically developed, you’d like to think he could get up and go a bit early.”

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The gift that keeps on giving: Giza Goddess delivers again

Trevor Marshallsea

ANZ News

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Lot 327: Extreme Choice ex Giza Goddess colt (Credit: Inglis)

Giza Goddess (Cairo Prince) is the gift that keeps giving.

Three years ago, Steve O’Connor got married. He’s the director of New Zealand heavyweight Sir Owen Glenn’s thoroughbred interests at Go Bloodstock, and was formerly a manager at Newgate Farm.

And when O’Connor and wife Morgan told Sir Owen they were expecting, the boss said he’d give a gift to their baby, to help set up her life.

Around the same time, Newgate went to the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale and put up for auction Giza Goddess, one of the many American mares the stud has brought to Australia in recent years.

The mare, in-foal to then reigning champion sire I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit), was bought for $1.15 million - by Sir Owen - who then gifted her to the O’Connors.

It’s odds-on the mare, proficient up to a mile, galloped away with the “top gift at the baby shower” award that year. Heaps better than a pair of booties, at any rate.

Giza Goddess had her I Am Invincible colt, and he sold at the Gold Coast last year, through Newgate’s draft of course, for $800,000, bought by Bjorn Baker and Jim Clarke. He’s now called King Of The Nile and is awaiting his first start.

But on Monday, that figure was blown out of the water when the grey mare’s second foal, by Newgate’s sensation Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt), sold at Inglis Easter for $2 million, bought from Newgate’s draft by Yulong, co-signing with trainer Matt Laurie.

“It’s a three million dollar present,” joked one insider.

Set up for life? The baby’s set up for a few of them.

And with the mare just ten years old, there should be more sales tales to come, even if she had a year off in 2024 and missed to Newgate’s Stay Inside (Extreme Choice) last spring.

Monday’s sale of Lot 327 came with another potential twist when it was learned the underbidder was trainer Michael Freedman, in partnership with bloodstock agent Andy Williams. With that pair teaming regularly with Sir Owen, it sparked speculation he might have been trying to get back involved with that four-legged gift of his. However, Williams said he was acting for different clients.

Newgate’s Henry Field said the gift was extremely generous - which could be a good name for the colt - on the part of Sir Owen, a long-term Newgate associate who’s bred “six or seven top class horses at the farm”, including Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Lady Of Camelot (Written Tycoon).

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I’m delighted that Yulong bought him in a bidding duel. He was a colt we always admired

Henry Field

The colt also continued the extremely hot Easter for Newgate’s Extreme Choice, who topped the sale with another son bought on Sunday by Coolmore’s Tom Magnier for $3 million, and ended up with five of the top ten.

“He was a spectacular colt, a very athletic individual,” Field said of Lot 327. “I’m delighted that Yulong bought him in a bidding duel. He was a colt we always admired.”

Yulong’s general manager Jun Zhang said the colt was in good hands with Laurie, whose success with Zhang Yuesheng’s empire has been headed by four-time Group 1 winner Treasurethe Moment (Alabama Express).

“He ticked every box when we saw him. He was moving well, and we believe he could be a very good racing horse in the future,” Jun said.

“He’s by Extreme Choice and has a very deep bloodline. We’d hope he can be a successful stallion. So he was one we definitely had to buy.”

He certainly has the bloodlines to succeed. Aside from Extreme Choice’s phenomenal stats, Giza Goddess won a Listed event over 1600 metres at Santa Anita and ran fourth at the same track in the American Oaks (Gr 1, 10f), both run on turf.

Fourth dam So Cozy (Lyphard) also won in Listed class and bore four stakes winners.

Sir Owen of Go is known for his generosity in other areas, and was awarded an Order Of Australia for his philanthropy.

However, you’d be hard pressed to think of a more generous - and more rewarding - gesture than Giza Goddess.

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Sales Statistics

Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale - Day 2

Top lots - Day 2

Lot Sex Sire Dam Vendor Purchaser Purchaser Location Price ($)
288 c Too Darn Hot Enbihaar Widden Stud Watership Down / McKeever Bloodstock / Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Racing UK 2,200,000
327 c Extreme Choice Giza Goddess Newgate Farm YLR / Matt Laurie Racing VIC 2,000,000
451 c Snitzel Ms Bad Behavior Arrowfield Stud James Harron Bloodstock Colt Partnership / Tony Fung Colts / Tom Magnier NSW 2,000,000
383 f Snitzel Laguna Azzurra Arrowfield Stud Equine Holdings NSW 1,800,000
255 f Extreme Choice Cicatrix Newgate Farm Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock (BAFNZ) NZ 1,600,000
436 c Extreme Choice Miss Exfactor Newgate Farm Go Bloodstock / Michael Freedman / Andrew Williams Bloodstock (FBAA) NSW 1,600,000
353 f I Am Invincible Invictus Salute Sledmere Stud Emirates Park / Michael Freedman Racing / Andrew Williams Bloodstock (FBAA) NSW 1,550,000
420 c Zoustar Matryoshka Widden Stud China Horse Club / Newgate Bloodstock & Partners NSW 1,450,000
468 f Zoustar Nimbostratus Widden Stud Chris Waller Racing/Mulcaster Bloodstock NSW 1,400,000
293 f Justify Ennis Hill Coolmore Stud Ciaron Maher Bloodstock / Linda Shanahan VIC 1,300,000

Million dollar lots

Lot Sex Sire Dam Vendor Purchaser Purchaser Location Price ($)
26 c Extreme Choice Pretty Brazen Lime Country Thoroughbreds T Magnier NSW 3,000,000
288 c Too Darn Hot Enbihaar Widden Stud Watership Down / McKeever Bloodstock / Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Racing UK 2,200,000
327 c Extreme Choice Giza Goddess Newgate Farm YLR / Matt Laurie Racing VIC 2,000,000
451 c Snitzel Ms Bad Behavior Arrowfield Stud James Harron Bloodstock Colt Partnership / Tony Fung Colts / Tom Magnier NSW 2,000,000
117 f Extreme Choice Speak Fondly Newgate Farm Shane McGrath Bloodstock / Clinton McDonald Racing NSW 1,800,000
126 f Zoustar Summer Sham Widden Stud Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock (BAFNZ) NZ 1,800,000
383 f Snitzel Laguna Azzurra Arrowfield Stud Equine Holdings NSW 1,800,000
133 f I Am Invincible Sweet Sherry Silverdale Farm Go Bloodstock / Michael Freedman / Andrew Williams Bloodstock (FBAA) NSW 1,700,000
255 f Extreme Choice Cicatrix Newgate Farm Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock (BAFNZ) NZ 1,600,000
436 c Extreme Choice Miss Exfactor Newgate Farm Go Bloodstock / Michael Freedman / Andrew Williams Bloodstock (FBAA) NSW 1,600,000
353 f I Am Invincible Invictus Salute Sledmere Stud Emirates Park / Michael Freedman Racing / Andrew Williams Bloodstock (FBAA) NSW 1,550,000
420 c Zoustar Matryoshka Widden Stud China Horse Club / Newgate Bloodstock & Partners NSW 1,450,000
468 f Zoustar Nimbostratus Widden Stud Chris Waller Racing/Mulcaster Bloodstock NSW 1,400,000
20 c I Am Invincible Pippie Cressfield China Horse Club / Newgate Bloodstock & Partners NSW 1,350,000
135 c Zoustar Sword of Light Widden Stud Yulong Investments / Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Racing VIC 1,350,000
171 c Home Affairs Victoria Quay Milburn Creek EA & WA Huglin / Clarke Bloodstock (FBAA) VIC 1,300,000
293 f Justify Ennis Hill Coolmore Stud Ciaron Maher Bloodstock / Linda Shanahan VIC 1,300,000
312 c Dundeel Fiesta Widden Stud Jamie McCalmont For Tom Magnier NSW 1,300,000
374 c Too Darn Hot La Magique Grenville Stud EA & WA Huglin / Clarke Bloodstock (FBAA) VIC 1,300,000
439 c Written Tycoon Miss Iano Yulong Ciaron Maher Bloodstock \ David Redvers Bloodstock VIC 1,300,000
450 c Extreme Choice Mrs Ramona G Newgate Farm MG Price Racing & Breeding Pty Ltd VIC 1,250,000
9 f Zoustar Paredo Silverdale Farm Yulong Investments VIC 1,100,000
306 f Extreme Choice Fashion Faux Pas Newgate Farm Emirates Park / Michael Freedman Racing / Andrew Williams Bloodstock (FBAA) NSW 1,100,000
467 c Snitzel Nimalee Coolmore Stud Avenue Bloodstock UK 1,100,000
243 c Siyouni California Zimbol Segenhoe Stud China Horse Club / Newgate Bloodstock & Partners NSW 1,050,000
287 c Zoustar Emerald Bay Widden Stud T Magnier NSW 1,000,000

Leading sires

Leading Sires by

Sire Sold Aggregate ($) Average ($)
Extreme Choice 9 14,050,000 1,561,111
Too Darn Hot 9 6,765,000 751,667
Zoustar 26 17,705,000 680,962
I Am Invincible 30 18,405,000 613,500
Snitzel 32 19,205,000 600,156
Alabama Express 6 3,010,000 501,667
Written Tycoon 6 2,970,000 495,000
Siyouni 5 2,320,000 464,000
Frankel 5 2,185,000 437,000
Justify 12 4,990,000 415,833

Leading sires by average with three or more lots sold

Leading vendors

Leading Vendors by

Vendor Sold Aggregate ($) Average ($)
Newgate Farm 18 15,620,000 867,778
Widden Stud 22 16,690,000 758,636
Grenville Stud 4 2,880,000 720,000
Lime Country Thoroughbreds 7 4,760,000 680,000
Silverdale Farm 10 6,270,000 627,000
Cressfield 4 2,130,000 532,500
Kia Ora Stud 9 4,635,000 515,000
Milburn Creek 9 4,545,000 505,000
Goodwood Farm 2 1,010,000 505,000
Segenhoe Stud 15 7,365,000 491,000

Leading vendors by average with three or more lots sold

Leading buyers

Buyer Location Bought Aggregate ($)
Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock NZ 15 8,775,000
China Horse Club/Newgate Bloodstock & Partners NSW 7 5,700,000
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott/Kestrel Thoroughbreds NSW 12 5,340,000
Go Bloodstock/Michael Freedman/Andrew Williams Bloodstock NSW 4 4,560,000
T Magnier NSW 2 4,000,000
EA & WA Huglin/Clarke Bloodstock VIC 4 3,950,000
Chris Waller Racing/Mulcaster Bloodstock NSW 7 3,940,000
KPW Bloodstock QLD 8 3,920,000
MG Price Racing & Breeding VIC 7 3,470,000
Emirates Park/Michael Freedman Racing/Andrew Williams Bloodstock NSW 2 2,650,000

Purchaser location

Location Lots bought Aggregate % share
NSW 123 65,910,000 45.46%
VIC 97 40,065,000 27.63%
NZ 25 11,485,000 7.92%
HK 23 7,505,000 5.18%
QLD 19 6,165,000 4.25%
UK 4 4,325,000 2.98%
WA 8 3,340,000 2.30%
CHN 2 1,925,000 1.33%
USA 2 1,100,000 0.76%
SA 2 770,000 0.53%
MNG 2 640,000 0.44%
JPN 2 530,000 0.37%
FR 1 400,000 0.28%
PHI 1 320,000 0.22%
IRE 2 300,000 0.21%
SGP 1 200,000 0.14%
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Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale - Day 2

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Morning Briefing

Australia

Sheza Alibi ready for Doncaster Mile test

Sheza Alibi (Credit: Sportpix)

Last-start Randwick Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Sheza Alibi (Saxon Warrior) is in good shape ahead of her tilt at Saturday’s Doncaster Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) at Randwick. The filly will partake in a serious piece of work at Pakenham on Tuesday morning, but co-trainer Katherine Coleman said all had gone smoothly since her dominant Group 1 score on March 7. "We've definitely been very happy with her since she came home from Sydney after winning up there," Coleman, who trains in partnership with Peter Moody, said. "She just hasn't missed a beat and she seems like she's really bounced through that. Her trial was super, she wasn't asked for much of an effort and it didn't take much out of her. She seems very bright and well within herself, so she will have a nice gallop on Tuesday morning in preparation for the Doncaster and then head up to Sydney later in the week, all being well."

Surprise Sires’ Produce Stakes plan for Streisand

Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Streisand (Magnus) could be a surprise runner in this weekend’s Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) at Randwick. The filly, who finished runner-up in the Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) on March 21, had been earmarked to contest the Percy Sykes Stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) on April 11, but Clinton McDonald and connections are contemplating a change of plan. “Streisand is well. There’ll be a decision made tomorrow [Tuesday] on whether we go to the Sires’ Produce or whether we go to the Percy Sykes,” the trainer told SEN’s Giddy Up With Gareth Hall. “Ben Melham’s coming up to gallop her in the morning and we’ll make a call after we watch her work. I do like the Sires’ because she gets a two-kilo weight allowance off the colts and I think it’ll only be a field of six or seven, so it could be a softly-run race, whereas the Percy Sykes, she’s virtually got to carry 60 kilos – it’s a 55 kilogram handicap base and for her winning a Group 1, she carries a five-kilo penalty.” If Streisand does run in Saturday’s Group 1, McDonald is confident the filly will run a strong 1400 metres. “I don’t think it’s an issue. I think everyone saw her run in the Slipper and how strong she was at the end of 1200 metres, going at that tempo. At 1400 metres around Randwick, going at a nice even tempo, I think she will be strong late," he said.

Begg considers TJ tilt with Magic Time

The Grahame Begg team are considering running talented mare Magic Time (Hellbent) in Saturday’s TJ Smith Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) at Randwick. Begg had pencilled in the All Aged Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) on April 11 as Magic Time’s next start, but forecast rain later in the week in Sydney has forced the trainer to contemplate tackling Tentyris (Street Boss), Briasa (Smart Missile), Jimmysstar (Per Incanto), Joliestar (Zoustar) and Giga Kick (Scissor Kick) in the weekend’s Group 1 sprint. “Grahame sent her up to Sydney on Friday with a view to keeping the TJ Smith on the radar. If it had been good ground, I don’t think Grahame was too keen to run in it, but the forecast is very poor, so it comes back into the equation. At the moment, he’s prepping her up to go to that race, with Mick Dee to ride” Begg’s racing manager, Rohan Hughes, told Racing.com. “If they get the 20 to 25 millimetres of rain that’s forecast… she’s a Group 1 winner on good ground, but she’s just a different horse on wet ground, as we saw in the Champions Sprint during the spring.” Magic Time resumed in the William Reid Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m), finishing ninth, 2.87 lengths behind the winner Jigsaw (Manhattan Rain). “We were happy with her first-up run. She’s pulled-up great, she’s trained on well since and she’s settled well,” Hughes added. “Like I said, if the rain comes, we’re really looking forward to seeing how she goes.”

Options open for Pride Of Jenni

Pride Of Jenni (Credit: Sportpix)

Owner Tony Ottobre has said that Pride Of Jenni (Pride Of Dubai) will remain in training for as long as she shows enthusiasm for it. The Ciaron Maher-trained eight-year-old mare was dramatically denied a win in the Australian Cup (Gr 1, 2000m) last Saturday when collared in the dying strides by her stablemate, Light Infantry Man (Fast Company). “She’s an incredible racehorse — she’s a mare, but she actually races like a gelding. As long as she’s doing that, we’ll be going to the races as much as we can,” Ottobre told Giddy Up with Gareth Hall on Monday. “We’ll know when she doesn’t want to run anymore, but at this stage, she just loves what she’s doing. Nine, ten — the retirement age is 13. There’s a reason that figure’s been put in there obviously, but horses do enjoy racing.” While a tilt at next Saturday’s Queen Of The Turf Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m) at Randwick looks the most likely, Ottobre floated the idea of backing up his star in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) on the same card where she is likely to meet a talent-stacked field headed by Chris Waller’s unbeaten mare Autumn Glow (The Autumn Sun). “I’m not 100 per cent sure on the Queen Elizabeth at the moment — [Ciaron] likes it for her but there is the mares’ race over a mile,” he said. “We’ll head to the mares’ race at this stage… only because I want a fair race and I don’t think I’m going to get one.”

El Rocko all set for Victoria Handicap

The Victoria Handicap (Gr 3, 1400m) is a stepping stone to what John McArdle hopes will be a campaign of wet-track opportunities for El Rocko (Fastnet Rock), but he is predicting an improved performance from the free-rolling gelding this Saturday. The seven-year-old will have his second start for the preparation in the 1400-metre Group 3 at Caulfield. The miler with a liking for rain-affected ground failed to beat a runner home first-up at Caulfield on March 21, but that was over 1200 metres on a good track and McArdle pointed out that not all worked out in the run. "He needed the run and blew out on the dry track, but he looked as though he was going to hold his gallop and then he got bumped pretty hard," the trainer said. "For a horse as big as he is he's a bit of a coward and when he got the bump he put the cue in the rack. He'll head towards the Victoria Handicap and then probably back up the week later in the Vase." The $175,000 Anniversary Vase (Listed, 1600m) will be run at Caulfield on April 11.

Albert Stapleford dies aged 95

Racing NSW has paid tribute to Albert Stapleford, a man widely regarded as one of the industry’s most respected figures, following the news of the former trainer’s death at the age of 95. Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys said Stapleford was “a true gentleman in every sense of the word” who dedicated his life to racing with humility, integrity and a deep love of the horse. Stapleford was raised in Millfield near Cessnock and began his racing career as an apprentice jockey in Sydney before his rising weight forced him out of the saddle. He later worked at Segenhoe Stud and took out his trainer’s licence aged just 17.

His first starter, Renmark, won at Muswellbrook. Across a training career spanning seven decades, Stapleford prepared more than 500 winners and 930 placegetters. His most notable horse was Magic Albert (Zeditave), named in his honour, who won a Group 2 and Group 3 in 2001 before becoming a successful sire. That same year, Stapleford also won the Phar Lap Stakes (Gr 2, 1500m) with Maitland Gold (Made Of Gold). His final winner came when Dissenter (Dissident) scored at Gosford in February 2023. Stapleford’s legacy continues through his grandson, apprentice Mitch Stapleford, who has ridden 120 winners, including a Mudgee Cup (1600m) and six metropolitan victories.

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Te Akau stars head for the paddock

Te Akau’s Seize The Day (I Am Invincible) and Belle Cheval (Savabeel) are both set to head to the spelling paddock following the pair’s Group 1 wins on the weekend. Belle Cheval signed off for this preparation with a nail-biting win in the Vinery Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m) while across the Tasman, Seize The Day ran away with the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m). “Belle Cheval has already been floated down to our Cranbourne stable and she’ll spend a couple of days there just trotting out to familiarise her before she comes back into work to prepare for the spring,” said Mark Walker, who trains the pair in partnership with Sam Bergerson. “Her owners David Archer and Diane Wright like the idea of staying in Australia instead of kicking off her season back in New Zealand, mainly because those spring tracks back home are often so wet. At this stage her main early target will be the Golden Eagle in Sydney, which will allow plenty of time for the spell she’s earned and then have a steady build-up.” Discussions between Te Akau principals and an ownership group that includes Seize The Day’s Hunter Valley-based breeders Yarraman Park have led to the decision to spell him rather than opt for a possible late season target in Australia. “It’s a massive thrill for everyone involved to win Group 1s on the same day at Trentham and Randwick,” Walker said. “I’ve been training for coming up 30 years and it’s a personal career highlight.”

Little Lady on target for Breeders’ Stakes

Lady Iris (U S Navy Flag) will bid to crown a rewarding preparation with an overdue stakes success after the Stephen Marsh-trained three-year-old accounted for a competitive age group line-up at Trentham on Saturday. “She’s only small, but she is as game as they come and was great again in what I thought was a strong three-year-old race,” Marsh said. “The Cambridge Breeders’ Stakes on April 25 at Te Rapa looks the ideal race for her. That will be her last run to cap off a nice season for her.” Lady Iris has now won two of her last three starts with an unplaced effort on unsuitably wet ground at Tauranga in between. “She’s a model racehorse, very consistent and the really heavy track at her previous start just got to her. Apart from that, her form has been faultless,” Marsh said. “She really is under-rated and has run in some very good fields and beaten some nice horses.”

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She’s A Dealer (Credit: Race Images)

Lloyd Jackson

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Full fields, a good racing surface and good weather spelled a successful day at Trentham for the Manawatu Racing Club’s annual autumn meeting. Assuming the club’s Awapuni track will overcome its problems, the meeting will return to Palmerston North next year.

This year saw a major change. The Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (Gr 1, 1400m) has always been the feature but for 2026 the Sires’ was overshadowed by the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (Gr 1, 1600m), moved to the Central Districts for the first time. Owners, breeders and trainers responded, providing a most competitive field.

Milan Park’s Provence (Savabeel), winner of the 2025 edition (at Ellerslie) raced for the final time before being offered at the upcoming Inglis Chairman’s Sale. The three-time Group 1 winner was one of a number of well performed mares entered, including two from Sydney representing the powerful Chris Waller stable. The tote reminded us that the field was very even as the favourite, Quintessa (Shamus Award) was at odds of better than 6-1.

Fifth favourite She’s A Dealer (Ace High) lined up at Trentham having not won at stakes level but a look at her race record, particularly the assignments she had been asked to meet, suggested she is held in high regard.

She began her career a little over a year ago and by the end of April had two wins from three starts under her belt before being sent to Sydney to finish second at Benchmark 72 level. Next was a really good fifth in the Queensland Oaks (Gr 1, 2200m), finishing less than two lengths behind the winner.

Her four-year-old season opened with back-to-back Benchmark 75 wins at Te Rapa and Ellerslie before she was stepped up to stakes class in Ellerslie’s Rich Hill Mile (Gr 2, 1600m), on New Year’s Day. No surprise there as she is a Rich Hill Stud product and her fighting fourth, after taking the lead at the 200 metres, was full of promise.

Karaka Millions night and the Aotearoa Classic (Gr 3, 1600m) resulted in a further fourth placing, the mare finishing very strongly between runners. Nothing was finishing faster than she did and at Trentham for the Cuddle Stakes (Gr 3, 1600m) on March 1 she again was the fastest finisher, losing a front plate at the top of the straight, yet almost catching the winner Afternoon Siesta (Shamus Award).

Drawn the outside alley for the Breeders’ Stakes, She’s A Dealer had to be used early to find a handy spot and sat third at the half way mark. Three wide turning in, she ranged up to the leader at the 300 metres, then led narrowly from inside the 200 metres, before fighting off all challenges resolutely to the line. A tough win and fully deserved.

The winner’s prize of $345,000 took her earnings beyond $600,000 from a light career of 11 starts, which now includes five wins and two seconds. She is the real deal and if not spelled might be a worthy candidate for a return to Brisbane this coming winter.

But there’s more

Foaled in Australia, She’s A Dealer was not offered for sale. She is the fifth stakes winner and second Group 1 winner for Rich Hill Stud’s Ace High (High Chaparral). Her dam is the very well performed mare Say No More (Pentire), also a Rich Hill product and coincidentally, also a New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes winner, in 2012, the first and only time a mother and daughter have landed the feature. Say No More’s other major victory was the Thorndon Mile (Gr 1, 1600m).

Say No More was similarly lightly raced. In 16 starts she was successful on six occasions and at stud produced seven foals, six of which raced and won. Sadly, She’s A Dealer is her last foal as the mare died in 2022, having been served by Wootton Bassett (Iffraaj).

Say No More’s first foal (2014), the unraced No More Doubt (Redoute’s Choice), is the dam of 2023 Hawkes Bay Guineas (Gr 2, 1400m) winner Lantern Way (Satono Aladdin). Her 2017 foal I Say Hello (Iffraaj) is a Sydney winner and Group 3 placed while her 2019 foal, Say Satono (Satono Aladdin) is a Listed-placed winner of seven races in the South Island.

Prior to Say No More the best performer in the family was Sir Trutone (Fair’s Fair) who landed the 1973 Hobart Cup (Gr 3, 2380m) and a Listed race at Avondale among 15 wins. Sir Trutone’s granddam and Say No More’s great granddam are sisters.

Appearing as the sire of Say No More’s dam Our Lucy is Walking Ring (Auction Ring), a stallion not common in pedigrees. As a racehorse he was unbeaten. He won his only race at two in Ireland and at stud in Australia sired just 40 foals for 19 winners. He was closely related to the successful sire Arctic Explorer (Arctic Prince), perhaps the reason for his export. Our Lucy was one of his better runners but he failed to sire a black type performer.

Run since 1971, the Breeders’ Stakes has had several homes beginning with Te Aroha which held the event until 2019. No race took place in 2020 due the Covid pandemic. While the Te Aroha track was refurbished Te Rapa took over in 2021 and 2022, stars Avantage (Fastnet Rock) and Imperatriz (I Am Invincible) the winners. For 2023 Auckland Thoroughbred Racing held the race at Pukekohe while Ellerslie was being refurbished and when that was completed, staged the 2024 and 2025 runnings there.

To avoid a possible downgrading of the New Zealand Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m), it was decided this year to move the Oaks to Ellerslie and in a swap, move the Breeders’ Stakes to the Central Districts.

In 1982 the race was promoted from Group 3 to Group 2 and in 2002 it was finally recognised as a Group 1 race. Saint Cecile (Pompeii Court) won the Group 2 version of 2001 and the 2002 Group 1 version and is one of five mares to land two, including the wonderful mare Tudor Light (All A’Light II). Orchidra (Oncidium) won the race three times.

How good?

Seize The Day (I Am Invincible) certainly dealt to his opponents in the Manawatu Sire’s Produce Stakes and you can only beat what lines up. The question remains, however, as to just how good he is? The best two-year-old in New Zealand, Lara Antipova (Russian Revolution), was not among the acceptors as she has been sidelined after her unbeaten sequence of four wins, including the Sistema Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m).

Seize The Day (Credit: Race Images)

The experience of Opie Bosson came to the fore when he sent Seize The Day forward from a wide draw. They sat just back and outside the leader to the top of the straight before taking over at the 400 metres. Bosson had plenty up his sleeve and put the race beyond doubt at the 200 metres to win easily.

Beaten two noses into third on debut at Ellerslie last month, Seize The Day was impressive when scoring at Matamata at his next start. That effort was sufficient to install him favourite for the Sires’ but the field did not appear to be all that strong. We will have a better idea when he and the placegetters return for their three-year-old seasons.

Although some margin from the winner, Chris Ruttan, part of the ownership of second placed Sweetest Thing (Hello Youmzain), was all smiles after the race, believing that she could be something next season.

From second-last into line Speed Demon (Yes Yes Yes) ran on very strongly for third, putting a huge grin on NZB’s Mike Kneebone’s face as the colt is trained by his son Nick. Fourth was Excite (Wootton Bassett) who had a chequered run from the 200 metres but still rattled home. He’s one for your black book.

David Ellis purchased Seize The Day at the 2025 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale but had to outlay $600,000 for the Yarraman Park Stud colt. He is one we might see head to Cranbourne for some Australian riches, the object, no doubt, to land some precious Australian black type in advance of a possible stud career.

Ellis probably had little option to spend large as the colt is a brother to dual Group 3 and dual Listed winner California Zimbol (I Am Invincible). Their dam, Zimaretto (Anabaa), has also produced two Listed winners and now nine winners from nine to race. Seize The Day’s family has two generations of produce in Australia but his German performed granddam is from a European family.

Slightly alarming is the fact that the Sire’s Produce field was dominated by runners conceived or foaled in Australia. Before scratchings, the 13-strong field contained nine such acceptors.

Undercard

Manawatu’s bumper day included a further three stakes races which went to He’s A Doozy (Zacinto) in the Awapuni Gold Cup (Gr 2, 2100m), Geneva (Time Test) in the Manawatu Classic (Gr 3, 2100m) and Archaic Smile (Saxon Warrior) in the Flying Handicap (Listed 1400m).

Group 1 winner He’s A Doozy was too tough when scoring the Awapuni Gold Cup, his 11th win in 54 starts. The eight-year-old might not be as consistent as he was when younger but the Dennis Brothers-bred gelding has been a true warrior, banking more than $800,000 in prize-money along the way. Second until they straightened for the run home, he shot clear inside the 300 metres and had his opponents gasping all the way to the finish to score convincingly by 1.35 lengths.

He’s A Doozy (Credit: Race Images)

Geneva backed up his good third in the New Zealand Derby (Gr 1, 2400m) with a sound effort in the Classic, taking over the pace with a little less than a round to go. Similar to He’s A Doozy, he shot away at the 300 metres and with 100 metres to run it was all over for his third win in 12 starts. He will only get better.

Cambridge visitor Archaic Smile returned to the scene of her win in the Wellesley Stakes (Listed, 1100m) more than two years ago in taking out the Flying Handicap, her third win at the Trentham track among a career five wins. From out of the pack she grabbed the lead at the 150 metres and was tenacious in fending off all challenges.

Over in Oz

Easily the highlight for the New Zealand contingent present at Rosehill was the exciting and very narrow win by Belle Cheval (Savabeel) in the Vinery Stud Stakes (Gr 1, 2000m).

Her trainer Mark Walker summed it up best: “I actually thought we got beaten, whereas I’d thought we’d won the NZB Kiwi. I was glad to see the photo.”

Belle Cheval (right) (Credit: bradleyphotos.com.au)

Race hardened and trying 2000 metres for the first time in her seven starts, Belle Cheval co-led at the 200 metres, then swerved towards the outside rail, before regaining her composure to fight out the finish. Except for the fact that the rider of runner-up After Summer (The Autumn Sun) was able to keep riding, she held the win after an inquiry. Her impressive resume now includes four wins and three placings for prize-money earnings of $1.2 million. In a one-hit raid the filly heads home for well deserved rest and will not run in the Australian Oaks (Gr 1, 2400m).

Rich Hill Stud’s successful day extended to Melbourne where two-year-old filly Satono Glow (Satono Aladdin) made it two from two in the VRC Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes (Gr 3, 1200m). A winner on debut at Warwick Farm earlier in March, she won with some authority by three lengths at Flemington, fully justifying her purchase price of $260,000 at the 2025 NZB Karaka Yearling Sale, from the Windsor Park Stud draft.

Racking up stakes winner number 14, Satono Aladdin is proving to be properly versatile with several stakes winners at two as well as a dual Group 1 Oaks winner. He is fast making his mark as one of New Zealand’s most desirable sires.

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Inglis Easter Yearling Sale

Day one

Day two

Results

Monday, March 30, 2026

Tab Meetings

Ararat VIC Good(4)
Show

Ararat VIC Good(4)

R1: Harvey Norman Ararat Mdn Plate, $32,000, 1206m

  1. Miss Ellaneous (AUS) (br F 3 Brazen Beau (AUS) - Jesting (AUS)
    T: Henry Dwyer J: H Coffey
  2. Fierce Dreams (AUS) (b/br F 3 Fierce Impact (JPN) - Ship Of Dreams (AUS))
  3. Trouble'n Paradise (AUS) (b/br C 3 Hellbent (AUS) - Viva La Romance (AUS))

Margins: 0.3 lens, 0.4 lens. Time: 1:11.31 (last 600m)

R2: Russ Studio Jewellers Mdn Plate, $32,000, 1206m

  1. Where's My Sock (AUS) (b M 5 Jimmy Creed (USA) - Murray Star (AUS)
    T: Nathan Hobson J: Neil Farley
  2. Recycle King (AUS) (b G 4 Rubick (AUS) - Clearly Foxy (USA))
  3. Spike Almighty (AUS) (b G 5 Nostradamus (AUS) - Marlgeo (AUS))

R3: Harris Accident Repair Centre Mdn Plate, $32,000, 2206m

  1. Earl of Gloucester (AUS) (b G 4 Royal Meeting (IRE) - She Chose Me (AUS)
    T: Andrew Noblet J: H Coffey
  2. My Rosalie (AUS) (ch F 3 Tagaloa (AUS) - Our Daisy (AUS))
  3. Finance Merchant (AUS) (br G 3 Merchant Navy (AUS) - Westchester (AUS))

Margins: 6 lens, 0.5 lens. Time: 2:17.62 (last 600m)

R4: Bet365 Position Payout Mdn Plate, $32,000, 1606m

  1. Hurco (AUS) (b G 3 Blue Point (IRE) - Alittle Loose (AUS)
    T: Liam Howley J: J Maskiell
  2. Fire Type (AUS) (ch G 3 The Autumn Sun (AUS) - Kabu (AUS))
  3. Evasive Ruler (AUS) (br G 3 Shamus Award (AUS) - Princess Evasive (NZ))

Margins: 1.3 lens, 2.7 lens. Time: 1:36.23 (last 600m)

R5: Ararat Concrete (Bm56), $22,000, 1606m

  1. The Daily Planet (AUS) (b G 4 Press Statement (AUS) - Ivory Jane (AUS)
    T: Aaron Purcell J: Ms L J Meech
  2. Il Cielo (AUS) (ch G 4 Toronado (IRE) - Cielo Stellato (NZ))
  3. Hydrogen Power (AUS) (b G 5 The Autumn Sun (AUS) - Madam Tracy (AUS))

Margins: 1.3 lens, 1.2 lens. Time: 1:35.98 (last 600m)

R6: Manhari (Bm56), $22,000, 2206m

  1. My Uncle Did It (NZ) (b M 4 Raise the Flag (GB) - Serve de Aunt (NZ)
    T: Symon Wilde J: Ms L J Meech
  2. Flashlight (NZ) (b G 5 Embellish (NZ) - Flare (NZ))
  3. Bogues (AUS) (b G 5 Justify (USA) - Coral Coast (AUS))

Margins: 2.5 lens, 0.4 lens. Time: 2:17.65 (last 600m)

R7: Ords Motorcycles (Bm62), $27,000, 1306m

  1. Yoomee Wonder (AUS) (b M 5 Flying Artie (AUS) - Star Logie (AUS)
    T: Mitchell Freedman J: John Allen
  2. Designs Of Eight (AUS) (br/bl M 5 Fiorente (IRE) - Montagonal (AUS))
  3. Strike Gold (NZ) (b G 5 Iffraaj (GB) - Navagio (NZ))

Margins: 1.8 lens, 0.4 lens. Time: 1:16.65 (last 600m)

R8: Programmed (Bm62), $27,000, 1106m

  1. Body Of Venus (AUS) (b M 4 Royal Meeting (IRE) - Touch Too Much (AUS)
    T: Andrew Noblet J: John Allen
  2. Triomphe (AUS) (b G 4 Strasbourg (AUS) - Bowerbird (AUS))
  3. Just Bolts (AUS) (b G 5 Winning Rupert (AUS) - They Call Me Bolt (AUS))

Margins: 0.4 lens, 0.3 lens. Time: 1:03.82 (last 600m)

Grafton NSW Good(4)
Show

Grafton NSW Good(4)

R1: Rabbit Ride-Share Mdn Plate, $27,000, 1115m

  1. Ivantheinvincible (AUS) (b G 3 Russian Revolution (AUS) - Empress Matilda (AUS)
    T: M J Dunn J: A Mallyon
  2. Xtravagant Gift (AUS) (b G 4 Xtravagant (NZ) - Stregheria (AUS))
  3. Foxy Artist (AUS) (br G 3 Trapeze Artist (AUS) - Unique Foxy (AUS))

Margins: 5.6 lens, 0.3 lens. Time: 1:02.93 (last 600m 33.63)

R2: Lowes Petroleum Service Country Boosted Hcp (C1), $30,000, 1420m

  1. Xtreme (AUS) (b G 3 Exceedance (AUS) - Sharpness (AUS)
    T: Paul Snowden J: B Looker
  2. Referees (AUS) (br G 4 Impending (AUS) - Moderate (AUS))
  3. Casino Collection (AUS) (b M 4 Casino Prince (AUS) - Spring Collection (AUS))

Margins: 0.4 lens, 0.2 lens. Time: 1:25.03 (last 600m 34.66)

R3: Valley Protective Services Country Boosted Mdn Hcp, $30,000, 1420m

  1. Graceful Warrior (IRE) (b M 4 Saxon Warrior (JPN) - Gracefield (USA)
    T: A Parramore J: Jett Newman
  2. Whatsthetimemrwolf (AUS) (b G 4 Wolf Cry (AUS) - O'lordy (AUS))
  3. Jennibelle (AUS) (ch M 5 Toronado (IRE) - Balgownie (NZ))

Margins: 0.5 lens, 1.9 lens. Time: 1:24.95 (last 600m 35.69)

R4: Prestige Wedding & Event Hire Mdn Plate, $27,000, 1720m

  1. Kiss'n Dance (AUS) (b G 4 Exceedance (AUS) - Swiss Kiss (NZ)
    T: Fleur Henley J: B Lerena
  2. Burning Ambition (AUS) (br G 3 Brutal (NZ) - Ever the Same (AUS))
  3. Righteous Brother (AUS) (b G 5 Rubick (AUS) - Unchain My Heart (AUS))

Margins: 0.2 lens, 0.1 lens. Time: 1:45.90 (last 600m 35.21)

R5: Ken Gill Painter (Bm66), $27,000, 2230m

  1. Fulmen Filou (AUS) (b G 4 Fiorente (IRE) - L'Inquisitor (AUS)
    T: R J Knight J: Ms C Williams
  2. Tewkesbury (AUS) (b G 6 Sir Prancealot (IRE) - Dijonnaise (AUS))
  3. Champagne Rouge (AUS) (ch M 4 Stratum Star (AUS) - Chappy's Dream (AUS))

Margins: 0.9 lens, 3.3 lens. Time: 2:22.97 (last 600m 33.87)

R6: Edwards Irrigation Consulting (Bm82), $27,000, 1420m

  1. Full Regalia (AUS) (b G 5 Casino Prince (AUS) - Suggest (AUS)
    T: Ms K Owen J: Madeline Owen
  2. Auzstar (AUS) (b G 8 Zoustar (AUS) - Lucky Country (NZ))
  3. Xtra Approval (AUS) (br G 7 Xtravagant (NZ) - Approve (AUS))

Margins: 0.8 lens, 1.2 lens. Time: 1:24.90 (last 600m 34.22)

R7: Clarence Valley Office Supplies Hcp (C2), $27,000, 1190m

  1. Bring Me Saki (AUS) (b G 5 Kobayashi (AUS) - Sebring's Joy (AUS)
    T: S B Lee J: Damien Boche
  2. Gaylord (NZ) (b G 5 Charm Spirit (IRE) - Ysabelle (NZ))
  3. Dubalene (AUS) (b M 4 Dubious (AUS) - La Balene (AUS))

Margins: 0.4 lens, 1.2 lens. Time: 1:08.04 (last 600m 34.25)

R8: More Ice (Bm58), $27,000, 1720m

  1. Maravich (IRE) (b G 7 Lope de Vega (IRE) - Shahad (Ire)
    T: Emma Fouchard J: Damien Boche
  2. Queen of Tayrona (AUS) (b M 7 The Factor (USA) - Reine (AUS))
  3. Autumn Heir (AUS) (b G 4 The Autumn Sun (AUS) - Forreel (NZ))

Margins: 0.3 lens, 3.5 lens. Time: 1:44.11 (last 600m 36.53)

Sapphire Coast NSW Soft(7)
Show

Sapphire Coast NSW Soft(7)

R1: Meyer Timber (Bm58), $27,000, 1200m

  1. Kool Bird (AUS) (br M 6 Duporth (AUS) - Bellbird Hill (AUS)
    T: Mark Gee J: Pierre Boudvillain
  2. Miss Scoop (AUS) (b M 5 Press Statement (AUS) - Martha Heights (AUS))
  3. Wolf Island (AUS) (b G 3 Capitalist (AUS) - Laucala (AUS))
  4. Casino Shaw (AUS) (b M 5 Casino Prince (AUS) - She's Got Bling (AUS))

R2: Fleet Painting Hcp (C1), $27,000, 1000m

  1. Harry The Thief (AUS) (b G 3 Harry Angel (IRE) - Classical Lass (AUS)
    T: Mitchell Beer & George Carpenter J: Ms L Day
  2. Lantau Island (AUS) (b G 5 Star Turn (AUS) - Cable Car (AUS))
  3. Travelon Dory (AUS) (b F 3 Super One (AUS) - Dolphin Watch (AUS))

Margins: 0.8 lens, 1.1 lens. Time: 0:58.36 (last 600m 34.89)

R3: Buildcert (Bm66), $27,000, 1000m

  1. All Adore (AUS) (b F 3 Harry Angel (IRE) - All Too Ready (AUS)
    T: N J Olive J: Ms C Keatings
  2. Christmas Star (AUS) (gr/br M 4 Star Turn (AUS) - Christmas Commands (AUS))
  3. A Book of Days (AUS) (ch G 5 Written By (AUS) - Rock Princess (AUS))

Margins: 4.4 lens, 5.5 lens. Time: 0:56.58 (last 600m 33.74)

R4: Greenway Turf Solutions Country Boosted Mdn Plate, $30,000, 1000m

  1. Inchyra (AUS) (br M 4 Brutal (NZ) - River Tay (AUS)
    T: B Joseph & P & M Jones J: Pierre Boudvillain
  2. Reds Express (AUS) (b F 3 Alabama Express (AUS) - Surfacing (AUS))
  3. Stormy Reign (AUS) (b F 3 Time to Reign (AUS) - Polemos (AUS))

Margins: 1 lens, 0.5 lens. Time: 0:59.55 (last 600m 36.00)

R5: Rensen Constructions Plate (C1), $27,000, 1600m

  1. Exceed Success (AUS) (b G 4 Exceedance (AUS) - Arctic Success (AUS)
    T: Jamie Stewart J: Ms L Day
  2. I Doubt It (AUS) (b/br M 4 Dubious (AUS) - Azyaan (AUS))
  3. Turn Left (AUS) (b M 4 Showtime (AUS) - Flying First Class (AUS))

Margins: 1.3 lens, 0.8 lens. Time: 1:39.23 (last 600m 37.46)

R6: Leser Build Country Boosted (Bm58), $30,000, 1600m

  1. Gwennybegg (AUS) (br M 10 Shamus Award (AUS) - Huiskes (AUS)
    T: G Boucher J: Caitlin Sinclair
  2. Fire And Gemstone (AUS) (b G 6 Rubick (AUS) - Ain't Half Hot (AUS))
  3. Star Bling (AUS) (ch M 5 Star Turn (AUS) - Got Bling (AUS))

Margins: 0.6 lens, 0.5 lens. Time: 1:38.67 (last 600m 37.93)

R7: Mitre 10 (Bm66), $27,000, 1400m

  1. London Star (AUS) (b M 5 Star Turn (AUS) - Londinium (AUS)
    T: Ms T Bateup J: Amy Mc Lucas
  2. Magical Moments (AUS) (b M 4 Winning Rupert (AUS) - Magical Charge (AUS))
  3. Lady Yarrow (AUS) (b M 4 Shalaa (IRE) - Princess Charlotte (AUS))

Margins: 0.8 lens, 0.5 lens. Time: 1:24.83 (last 600m 36.97)

R8: Clark Equipment Mdn Hcp, $27,000, 1200m

  1. Olington Lane (AUS) (b G 3 Ole Kirk (AUS) - Silent Rush (AUS)
    T: Ms L Davies J: Pierre Boudvillain
  2. Hold My Drink (AUS) (b G 4 Tassort (AUS) - Taste Of Money (AUS))
  3. North Star Miss (AUS) (br F 3 North Pacific (AUS) - Miss Understanding (NZ))

Margins: 0.7 lens, 2 lens. Time: 1:11.5 (last 600m 36.81)

Leading Broodmare Sires

Data supplied by Arion pedigrees

Australia

Leading Broodmare Sires by

Rank Stallion Ccode Yof - To Stud Breeding Rnrs Wnrs Wins SW(SWins) Earnings Best Performer
1 Fastnet Rock (AUS) 2001 - 2005 Danehill - Piccadilly Circus 588 236 342 11(15) $26,007,017 Joliestar - 2,659,000
2 Exceed and Excel (AUS) 2000 - 2004 Danehill - Patrona 461 174 257 11(16) $19,839,494 Tempted - 3,744,000
3 Redoute's Choice (AUS) 1996 - 2000 Danehill - Shantha's Choice 571 220 302 9(11) $17,879,105 Inkaruna - 759,975
4 Snitzel (AUS) 2002 - 2006 Redoute's Choice - Snippets' Lass 511 221 309 7(8) $17,083,859 Clear Thinking - 1,049,000
5 Street Cry (IRE) 1998 - 2003 Machiavellian - Helen Street 280 117 183 9(14) $14,965,412 Tom Kitten - 1,747,850
6 Lonhro (AUS) 1998 - 2004 Octagonal - Shadea 466 172 231 5(9) $14,507,309 Observer - 2,626,250
7 Galileo (IRE) 1998 - 2002 Sadler's Wells - Urban Sea 145 50 70 4(6) $14,469,027 Via Sistina - 6,581,500
8 More Than Ready (USA) 1997 - 2001 Southern Halo - Woodman's Girl 478 176 251 5(6) $11,464,263 Miss Joelene - 526,300
9 Encosta de Lago (AUS) 1993 - 1997 Fairy King - Shoal Creek 449 172 234 2(3) $11,375,157 Marhoona - 852,750
10 O'Reilly (NZ) 1993 - 1997 Last Tycoon - Courtza 282 115 167 4(5) $11,174,692 Pride of Jenni - 1,562,145
11 Savabeel (AUS) 2001 - 2005 Zabeel - Savannah Success 250 90 127 4(5) $10,702,318 Gringotts - 2,643,500
12 High Chaparral (IRE) 1999 - 2004 Sadler's Wells - Kasora 300 108 162 5(9) $10,429,697 Apulia - 1,311,095
13 Shamardal (USA) 2002 - 2005 Giant's Causeway - Helsinki 138 61 97 7(9) $10,245,918 Ceolwulf - 5,045,895
14 Not a Single Doubt (AUS) 2001 - 2005 Redoute's Choice - Singles Bar 354 140 195 6(9) $9,940,119 My Gladiola - 849,645
15 Desert King (IRE) 1994 - 1998 Danehill - Sabaah 23 12 18 1(3) $9,335,250 Half Yours - 8,900,950
16 Stratum (AUS) 2002 - 2006 Redoute's Choice - Bourgeois 198 75 98 2(4) $9,113,436 Guest House - 3,275,500
17 Per Incanto (USA) 2004 - 2011 Street Cry - Pappa Reale 37 15 19 1(1) $8,495,215 Ka Ying Rising - 7,549,000
18 Var (USA) 1999 - 2005 Forest Wildcat - Loma Preata 2 1 7 1(6) $8,143,600 Autumn Glow - 8,137,500
19 Medaglia d'Oro (USA) 1999 - 2005 El Prado - Cappucino Bay 186 69 111 7(9) $8,123,128 Apocalyptic - 1,138,250
20 Sebring (AUS) 2005 - 2009 More Than Ready - Purespeed 319 104 164 6(7) $8,012,332 Salty Pearl - 786,250

New Zealand

Leading Broodmare Sires by

Rank Stallion Ccode Yof - To Stud Breeding Rnrs Wnrs Wins SW(SWins) Earnings Best Performer
1 O'Reilly (NZ) 1993 - 1997 Last Tycoon - Courtza 177 58 81 11(11) $4,681,577 Tuxedo - 668,950
2 Savabeel (AUS) 2001 - 2005 Zabeel - Savannah Success 162 57 72 4(4) $3,768,397 Road to Paris - 823,235
3 Sebring (AUS) 2005 - 2009 More Than Ready - Purespeed 24 9 20 2(7) $3,375,962 Well Written - 2,615,625
4 Redoute's Choice (AUS) 1996 - 2000 Danehill - Shantha's Choice 64 21 32 2(4) $2,592,485 Ohope Wins - 894,120
5 High Chaparral (IRE) 1999 - 2004 Sadler's Wells - Kasora 91 35 53 3(3) $2,550,945 Bozo - 337,625
6 Keeper (AUS) 1997 - 2002 Danehill - Nuwirah 67 24 34 3(4) $2,520,785 Belle Cheval - 902,915
7 Pentire (GB) 1992 - 1997 Be My Guest - Gull Nook 57 17 29 3(4) $2,174,250 She's a Dealer - 521,000
8 Pins (AUS) 1996 - 2000 Snippets - No Finer 115 35 49 1(2) $1,973,912 Enrico - 262,350
9 Stravinsky (USA) 1996 - 2000 Nureyev - Fire the Groom 49 22 30 3(3) $1,928,932 Romanoff - 576,100
10 Zabeel (NZ) 1986 - 1991 Sir Tristram - Lady Giselle 86 32 40 2(3) $1,917,645 Manzor Blue - 344,635
11 Fastnet Rock (AUS) 2001 - 2005 Danehill - Piccadilly Circus 68 29 44 3(3) $1,779,750 Hinekaha - 340,125
12 Towkay (AUS) 1994 - 1999 Last Tycoon - Princess Tracy 28 12 14 1(2) $1,626,475 Legarto - 1,083,500
13 Darci Brahma (NZ) 2002 - 2007 Danehill - Grand Echezeaux 100 33 42 0(0) $1,573,515 Pier - 138,500
14 Volksraad (GB) 1988 - 1993 Green Desert - Celtic Assembly 49 15 20 2(4) $1,330,285 First Five - 689,775
15 Lonhro (AUS) 1998 - 2004 Octagonal - Shadea 51 18 23 1(1) $1,328,072 Jigsaw - 402,500
16 More Than Ready (USA) 1997 - 2001 Southern Halo - Woodman's Girl 66 26 32 1(1) $1,267,225 Liguria - 174,750
17 Showcasing (GB) 2007 - 2011 Oasis Dream - Arabesque 32 9 11 2(2) $1,070,215 Lollapalooza - 588,725
18 Ocean Park (NZ) 2008 - 2013 Thorn Park - Sayyida 23 6 6 0(0) $995,360 He Who Dares - 772,300
19 Shocking (AUS) 2005 - 2011 Street Cry - Maria di Castiglia 13 4 8 1(2) $994,500 Waitak - 821,750
20 Snitzel (AUS) 2002 - 2006 Redoute's Choice - Snippets' Lass 42 13 20 1(1) $977,805 Miss Jones - 133,000
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