A unique Leopard-like offering from Tartan Fields They say there’s something for everyone at the Inglis Classic sale, but you wouldn’t expect to take home a leopard.  That’s what happened, after a fashion, to Perth owner Wally Daly as he came away with a most distinctive member of the animal kingdom yesterday in Lot 645. ... Read More

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

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

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

Burgeoning trainer Annabel Neasham was thrilled to yesterday snare the first yearling offered anywhere by the latest son of Deep Impact (Sunday Silence) to hit the sales ring, hoping she may have bought an Oaks filly for a bargain $140,000. Staphanos – a four time winner and triple Group 1 runner-up in Japan and Hong... Read More