Inglis Easter

Courtesy TDNAus/NZ Coolmore Stud's Triple Crown hero and dual-hemisphere sire Justify (Scat Daddy) is off the mark in Australia and with a smart one. Learning To Fly (Aus) found plenty at her racecourse debut in Saturday's G3 Widden S. at Rosehill (video), having shown plenty of talent at the trials. Bred by Katom and purchased by Kia Ora Stud for A$900,000 from the Coolmore Stud draft at the 2022 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, the Annabel Neasham-trained filly is her sire's seventh worldwide stakes winner and his first winner of...

Sponsored by Alex Nichols Agency 1st-DMR, $70K, Msw, 3yo/up, 5 1/2fT, post time: 7:00 p.m. ET Bred in Australia by the renowned Arrowfield Stud, KAZUHIKO (AUS) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) was purchased for a joint third-highest price of A$1.7 million (US$1,211,760) at the 2019 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale by a partnership including Spendthrift Farm, Kennewell Racing and Group 1 Bloodstock. Trained by Lloyd Kennewell, the Sept. 1 foal was the subject of major betting support ahead of his debut in the G3 National S. at Adelaide's Morphettville Racetrack in South Australa...

While 2021 marks the end of an era for Australia's Arrowfield Stud, with the last yearlings by its breed-shaping sire Redoute's Choice (Aus) going through the ring, it has likewise signaled the start of another, with young shuttler Shalaa (Ire) getting off to a bright start with his first Southern Hemisphere-bred crop headed by the Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner Shaquero (Aus). Arrowfield will offer yearlings by both at the upcoming Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Apr. 6 and 7, and we caught up with Arrowfield's John Messara to...

High-priced Frankel (GB) colt Significance (Aus) produced the first winning strike of his career at Wyong on Thursday for trainer John O'Shea in a dominating seven-length winning performance. "A scopey, slow maturing colt that is finally putting it all together with racing and experience," O'Shea tweeted after the victory. Purchased at the 2018 Inglis Easter Sale, he was secured out of Arrowfield Stud's consignment for A$1.1-million by Domeland. Placed once in five previous appearances, Significance is the first foal of the unraced Oasis Dream (GB) mare Aqua Bella (GB), who...

Last weekend, OTI Racing and partners' Quick Thinker (Aus) (So You Think {NZ}) provided a timely advertisement for Inglis's Easter Yearling Sale, where he had been bought 24 months' previously for $100,000 by Hubie de Burgh, when winning the G1 Australian Derby on the first day of The Championships at Royal Randwick. The Easter sale of 2018, when Quick Thinker went through the ring, looked much different than its latest renewal earlier this week, and the horse is perhaps appropriately named when considering the efforts that Inglis's personnel-as well as...

By nature of circumstance, Inglis will host its flagship Australian Easter Yearling Sale on Apr. 7 and 8 in virtual form. While many view this as an inconvenient but necessary way for trade to get done, Marie Yoshida sees it differently. Yoshida, who is French-born, resides in Kentucky and does business globally, said some of her Hong Kong-based clients partook in Inglis's test auction on Friday. And she had very positive feedback. "William Inglis has done an amazing job," she said. "They've harnessed the top technology, and they listened to...

New South Wales, the Australian state with the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases, was placed into lockdown on Tuesday, with residents warned they could face a fine or jail time if they leave home without a good reason. Fortunately for the nation's yearling sale market, inspections for the virtual Inglis Easter yearling sale on Apr. 7 and 8 has been deemed a good enough reason. Newmarket-based bloodstock agent Johnny McKeever has been Down Under since January-partially by design, partially by circumstance-and earlier this week he was working through his...