Bumper Inglis Easter sale predicted with collector item fillies set to prove popular
Thoroughbred industry’s leading players gather at Riverside ahead of Australasia’s premium auction Just as the enormous prices paid for proven sire prospects over the past decade has pushed an increasing number of stallion investors to embrace the yearling market, the surging southern hemisphere breeding stock sales appears likely to have the same effect on breeders,... Read More
Fillies dominate
From Awapuni to Randwick and on to Ascot, Saturday saw three outstanding two-year-old fillies, Maven Belle (Burgundy), Fireburn (Rebel Dane) and Amelia’s Jewel (Siyouni), make championship statements. All three were dominant. Maven Belle almost certainly wrapped up the title of Champion New Zealand Two-Year-old with a clear victory in what turned out to be New... Read More
Second for Impending
New winners Impending (pictured above) – The Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas-trained Hope At Hand (2 f ex Angel Of Hope by Choisir) got off the mark at the second attempt when she took out Saturday’s Furphy Handicap (1100m) at Morphettville and in doing so handed Darley-based first season sire Impending (Lonhro) with this second... Read More
I love it when a plan comes together – Easter filly set to complete incredible odyssey
It’s taken 21,450 kilometres across seven legs, and more than the usual leaps of faith required to buy a horse with no brand, but the first foal from what’s understood to be the only Venezuelan mare ever imported to Australia finally goes on sale this week. Lot 347 at the Inglis Easter sale – a... Read More
Fireburn’s sire Rebel Dane to call Hunter Valley’s Widden Stud home
Remarkable stallion Rebel Dane (California Dane), the sire of brilliant Golden Slipper (Gr 1, 1200m) and Inglis Sires’ (Gr 1, 1400m)-winning filly Fireburn from limited opportunities, will relocate to Widden Stud in the Hunter Valley. Widden’s Antony Thompson won the race to stand the dual Group 1-winning sprinter, who from just 14 runners has produced... Read More
Back in business, Golden Sixty steams to victory in Chairman’s Trophy
He came, he saw and he silenced doubters with an unanswerable burst of speed. Golden Sixty (Medaglia D’Oro) flattened his rivals at Sha Tin yesterday with a familiar display of sheer dominance to recapture his winning groove in the Chairman’s Trophy (Gr 2, 1600m) for jockey Vincent Ho and trainer Francis Lui. “You can see... Read More