Second for Hellbent
New winners Hellbent – Yarraman Park Stud’s first-season sire Hellbent (I Am Invincible) brought up his second individual winner when Hell Hath No Fury (2 f ex Diamond Cove by Octagonal) broke her maiden at Pakenham. Sporting owner Brae Sokolski’s tartan silks, the Danny O’Brien-trained Hell Hath No Fury justified odds-on favouritism in scoring by... Read More
Repeat, no change
Multiple champion sire Savabeel (Zabeel) ended January with his 27th Group 1 winner, The Chosen One. Half the stakes season is over but the second half, which started on Saturday, continued in much the same way when Savabeel’s Hasabro was too classy in the deep south’s premier weight-for-age race, the White Robe Lodge Stakes (Gr... Read More
Stott steers KBL to pinhook result
Boutique Queensland farm KBL Thoroughbreds enjoyed a day in the sun at the Inglis Classic sale yesterday after a sterling bit of pinhooking with a daughter of Kermadec (Teofilo). The 30-acre Beaudesert operation made some hay here last year when a daughter of Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible) purchased for $12,000 as a weanling made... Read More
Player sees profit in Classic steal
Victorian syndicators Mark Player and Rob Roulston may have come away with an old-fashioned Inglis Classic “steal” in buying a filly from Newgate Farm’s draft yesterday. Lot 392 looked one of the choice offerings of the sale, a bay by the all-conquering I Am Invincible (Invincible Spirit) out of stakes-placed two-year-old winner Athena Lass (Snitzel). ... Read More
Bray believes in his colt
Gordon Bray is a name known to many Australians through various sports – chiefly rugby union, the Olympics and cricket – through more than five decades in TV and radio commentary. Horseracing might not quickly spring to mind, but he’s been a player in the field for a good while (and with quite some success,... Read More
Osbornes’ Extreme Choice colt sets Riverside alight with $825,000 price
Mane Lodge’s Inglis Classic record-setting yearling a stunning result that comes four decades in the making At an auction nothing is fait accompli, but for at least a week it appeared almost certain that a colt by Extreme Choice (Not A Single Doubt) would top the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, it was just a matter... Read More