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WELCOME From The Chairman

INGLIS STAFF

INGLIS CONTRIBUTORS

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

QATARI INFLUENCE ON EUROPEAN RACING Emma Berry

40 YEARS: ADRIAN NICOLLAlice Lukey-Smith

INGLIS IPAD APP: OVERVIEW

HISTORY OF A GOOD JUDGETara Madgwick

A BETTER LIFEAndrew Hawkins

FACES IN THE CROWD

147 YEARS YOUNG & RACING STRONGJohn Holloway

RACING FOR THE KIDSPeter Twomey

BETTY LANE: A REAL WOMAN OF RACINGCaroline Searcy

DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONPeter Twomey

IN THE KNOW IN SYDNEY

INGLIS TRIPLE CROWN - ITS ALIVEPeter Twomey

2014 FIRST SEASON SIRES

PEDIGREE INDEX

PEDIGREE REFERENCES

TRAVEL GUIDE

ACCOMMODATION GUIDE

INGLIS 2012-13 GROUP 1 WINNERS

Produced & Edited by Inglis MarketingGraphic Design by Linda Zhang


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welcome from The Chairman

Success on the track is a gloriously ethereal pursuit. It requires a perfect synchronisation of factors; the plotting of the trainer, the guile of the jockey, the mercy of the draw and the odd twists of fate in running which determine whether that rails run presents at the critical moment. When these elements combine, the alchemy of racing occurs and the owners experience one of lifes great thrills.

To some this may seem capricious, but like any elite athlete, the racehorse is subject to a lifetime of systematic preparation to provide it the opportunity to perform on the highest stage. For the catalogue of horses that will be presented at the 2014 Inglis Australian Easter

Yearling Sale that preparation has been long underway.

The breeders represented at this years Easter Sale have sourced the leading stallions from around the globe to continue in their quest for equine perfection. Vendors have dedicated their efforts to providing the best environment for broodmares and foals to develop to their fullest potential. Our experienced bloodstock team have exhaustively scoped Australia and New Zealand to ensure that only the very best make it to Inglis Easter.

In all, the athletes on offer at this sale have been subject to incredible preparation, giving prospective owners the jump when it comes to unearthing the next Inglis champion of the Australian turf. From the brilliance of Black Caviar and All Too Hard to the tenacity of Fawkner and Shamus Award, championship qualities await those who visit the historic Newmarket complex this year.

As part of the Inglis team I take great pleasure in welcoming all local, interstate and overseas guests to Sydney next April... to see the next champions of the turf unveiled in public for the first time. Alongside the magnificent bloodstock on display I trust you will enjoy our hospitality and all the joys of being in Sydney at this time of year, principal amongst what is the sensational Australian Turf Club Sydney Carnival.

Welcome to the 2014 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. I look forward to seeing you at the sales, but even more so I will enjoy sharing in some small part the excitement of your future racetrack success with this upcoming crop of Easter Sale graduates.

John Coates AC

Redoutes Choice: Winning the Blue Diamond Stakes Gr1. A Champion Sire.

Northern Meteor: Winning the Coolmore Stud Stakes Gr1. A Champion First Season Sire.

The next STAR sire!

Australian Champion 2 & 3yo Colt

First crop yearlings on offer at all

major yearling sales in 2014

Star Witness winning the Blue Diamond Stakes Gr1. Star Witness winning the Coolmore Stud Stakes Gr1.

Valley of ChampionsContact

Antony Thompson, Derek Field, Ryan McEvoy (0439 802 837)

Widden Stud Australia Pty Ltd, Widden Valley via Denman NSW 2328 Tel: 61 2 6549 9999 Fax: 61 2 6549 9900 Email: [email protected] Web site: www.widden.com


inglis EXEcutive directorsE: [email protected] | M: +61 (0)419 610 809

Mark joined Inglis in mid-2007 as the first non-family member to lead the Company. This is Marks third career, having served 12 years as a naval officer and eight years for News Corporation as a media executive where he successfully managed internet and newspaper businesses. With a passion for horse racing and breeding and a wide range of business skills, Mark has introduced a number of innovations since joining Inglis, including live internet bidding, and has created a new Inglis Digital business unit which includes Bloodstock.com.au and in-house developed equestrian trading platform, Horsezone.com.au. He also spends considerable time developing new markets, particularly in Asia.

E: [email protected] | M: +61 (0)412 223 134

Arthur is a fifth generation member of the Inglis family involvement in the Company and has worked in various roles over more than three decades. His responsibilities include strategic planning, compliance, OH&S and overseas marketing to the Middle East, Korea, Philippines, India and other emerging markets. Arthur holds an agents licence, a BComm, an MBA and is a CPA and Qualified Practicing Insurance Broker.


Jamie started with Inglis in January 1974 and is a fifth generation Inglis to work in the Company. Jamie is a director of the Company, a licensed auctioneer, real estate agent and stock and station agent. His responsibilities are rural property and client liaison at all thoroughbred sales. Jamie is also a director of MacCallum Inglis; stock and station agents based in the Scone, specialising in livestock, property and merchandise.


Jonathan has been at Inglis since 1986. Jonathan oversees the auction side of the business managing a team of six people in the bloodstock division. Together with the Melbourne based bloodstock staff, Jonathan and his team inspect over 4,000 yearlings annually for the Inglis Sale Series. Jonathan is a senior auctioneer with the Company and has sold in England, China and Malaysia as well as most states of Australia. Jonathan assists Michael Otto with buyer recruitment and yearling inspections in New Zealand and is also Inglis North American Representative. Jonathan has been a director of the Company since 2003.


Peter had been with Dalgety Bloodstock for 18 years when Inglis acquired the business in 1994 and was appointed Victorian Manager and a director of the Company. Peter oversees the Victorian team of 13 staff as well as auctioneering at all Inglis sales. He has been a bloodstock auctioneer for 36 years and has sold in all states of Australia and in New Zealand, Malaysia and the United Kingdom.

MArk WEbster Managing Director

Arthur Inglis Deputy Chairman

JAmie Inglis Director

Jonathan DArcy Director & Auctioneer

Peter Heagney Director & Auctioneer

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nick adamsAuctioneer

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chris russellBloodstock Consultant & Auctioneer


mark dodemaideBloodstock Consultant


stephanie grentellBloodstock Consultant


brett gilding Bloodstock Consultant


Bloodstock Consultant & AuctioneerSimon Vivian


Bloodstock Consultantjames mitchell


Bloodstock Consultantjames price


Bloodstock Consultantjin tian

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Sales Entry CoordinatorWAYNE MASSINGHAM


Bloodstock AdministrationCHRISTINE GARDINER

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Complex Manager, SydneyJEFF MATTHEWS


jaci ellingsFinancial Controller


CHRIS CHRISTODOULOUFinance Manager, NSW


National Insurance ManagerBeryl Brooks


Insurance Consultant, NSWSIle Hayes


sinead flanneryInsurance Manager, VIC

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DEANE JOOSTE-JACOBSIT Manager


Business Development Managerbonnie connellan


Insurance Manager, WAduran carter


kate ankerMarketing Manager


PHIL HACKETTIT Support

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Insurance Consultant, WABronwyn Bregazzi




PA to Managing Director/ HR CoordinatorJaclyn Visch


CARLA RYDERInsurance Consultant, NSW


nick melmethInsurance Consultant, NSW


narelle stockerInsurance Consultant, VIC

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Marketing ExecutiveADELAIDE MOSES


adrianne sarkozySponsorship & Alliance Manager

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Business Development CoordinatorTANITA VELLA


jason ngoFinance Officer


david robertsGroundsman


Andrew munceNational Finance Relationship Manager


Finance Operations ManagerBILL PANTEL



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peter twomeyAsia Representative

Australia Based E: [email protected] T: +61 (0)2 9399 7999M: +61 (0)414 414 450

satomi okaJapan Representative


China Representativejin tian

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South Africa RepresentativePaul Guy


South Africa RepresentativeSimon Vivian

New Zealand BasedE: [email protected] T: +64 (0)9 631 5070M: +64 (0)2194 8983

New Zealand RepresentativeMichael Otto

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Europe & UK RepresentativeOliver Fowlston


Europe & UK RepresentativeJames Price


North America RepresentativeJonathan Darcy

inglis International


Starspangledbanner (Choisir)$120,000 Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale1st G1 Golden Jubilee Stakes1st G1 July Cup1st G1 MRC Oakleigh Plate1st G1 MRC Caulfield Guineas

Foxwedge (Fastnet Rock) $925,000 Easter Yearling Sale1st G1 MVRC William Reid Stakes

Igugu (Galileo)$65,000 Melbourne Premier Yearling SaleSouth African champion, 4 G1 wins

Invest (Dehere)$450,000 Easter Yearling Sale1st G1 SAJC Australasian Oaks

Manawanui (Oratorio)$45,000 Classic Yearling Sale1st G1 ATC Golden Rose Stakes

Mosheen (Fastnet Rock)$250,000 Easter Yearling Sale1st G1 VRC Australian Guineas1st G1 AJC Randwick Guineas1st G1 VRC Oaks1st G1 ATC Storm Queen Stakes

Niwot (Galileo) $200,000 Easter Yearling Sale1st G1 AJC Sydney Cup

Sacred Kingdom (Encosta de Lago)$200,000 Melbourne Premier Yearling SaleWorld champion sprinter, 6 G1 wins

Zipping (Danehill)$190,000 Easter Yearling Sale1st G1 VRC Turnbull Stakes1st G1 VRC Australian Cup

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Emma Berry is the bloodstock editor of Thoroughbred Owner & Breeder magazine in the UK and a correspondent for Americas Thoroughbred Daily News and Inside Racing in Australia. Married to racehorse trainer and Winning Post columnist John Berry, she is a small owner/breeder of horses in training at home in Newmarket, and is part of a syndicate of friends, known as The Empire, who breed and race horses in Victoria. Emmas dream is to win the Melbourne Cup with her homebred Schiaparelli gelding Delatite, named after her favourite place in Australia.

Emma Berry

Andrew Hawkins is one of the young rising stars of racing journalism, having previously worked in a number of different roles within the industry. As a freelance journalist for a number of publications and websites, most notably Just Horse Racing and The Roar, he has had the opportunity to cover some of the worlds most prestigious race meetings, including the Dubai World Cup, Epsom Derby, Royal Ascot, the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the Grand National and the Singapore International Cup. He is also known for his strong social media presence and for his work with the likes of the Australian Turf Club and Luxbet. In October 2013, Andrew moved to Hong Kong to work for the South China Morning Posts racing desk.

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Andrew Hawkins

John Holloway has been a participant in thoroughbred journalism since 1959 when he began writing for the afternoon newspaper The Daily Sun. He practically did a circle of the Sydney based newspapers writing for both the Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph and has been a contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald for the past decade writing about the thoroughbred industry. John has seen and studied racing and breeding throughout most of the world and has covered the Inglis Yearling Sales for more than half a century.

John Holloway

Tara Madgwicks background in racing started with her first job as a strapper/work rider for South Coast trainer Bede Murray. From there she progressed to work for leading trainers including Les Bridge, Colin Hayes, Tommy Smith and Gai Waterhouse. In 1995, Tara landed a job with Inglis in the pedigree department and eventually progressed to the media side of the business.

In 2005, Tara established a private bloodstock media business, joining forces with Racenet to establish; what is now the premier bloodstock website in our region, Breednet.com.au. Tara appears on TVNs Thoroughbreds program each week with Caroline Searcy and writes a weekly feature for the popular Winning Post racing paper.

Tara Madgwick

Caroline Searcy is a raceday host for TVN, commentating on every horse and its background as well as hosting and producing TVNs popular weekly breeding program Thoroughbreds.

Born and educated in Adelaide, after completing a Bachelor of Arts degree at Flinders University, Caroline, the passionate sports fan then spent 11 years as senior presenter and producer on Fox Sports News, before focusing on her number one passion, horse racing and breeding. Eight years ago Caroline took the Sydney host role with Australias thoroughbred specialist channel TVN.

Caroline Searcy

Alice Lukey-Smith is the Commercial Director at Bloodstock Media, which publishes ANZ Bloodstock News. After graduating from university, Alice worked for the advertising agency Barnes Thompson in Newmarket on clients including Tattersalls. ANZ Bloodstock News was started in 2006 and in addition to publishing ANZ Bloodstock News, Bloodstock Media look after advertising clients in both Australia and Europe.

Alice Lukey-Smith

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MELBOURNE PREMIER YEARLING SALE2 ~ 5 March 2014 | Oaklands, Melbourne

Cellarbrations Ladies/ coolmore classic22 March 2014 | Rosehill Gardens

inglis Rosehill guineas29 March 2014 | Rosehill Gardens

tooheys new golden slipper5 April 2014 | Rosehill Gardens

Australian easter yearling sale8 ~ 10 April 2014 | Newmarket, Sydney

BMW derby day

12 April 2014 | Royal Randwick

schweppees Sydney cup19 April 2014 | Royal Randwick

the star stakes26 April 2014 | Royal Randwick

vobis Gold yearling sale27 & 28 April 2014 | Oaklands, Melbourne

Australian easter yearling inspections1 ~ 7 April 2014 | Newmarket, Sydney

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In a relatively short space of time, the name Al Thani has become an extremely familiar one to devotees of

European racing and breeding.

by Emma Berry


It is the surname of Qatars ruling family, members of which have made a staggering impact on the racing scene in the last three seasons, predominantly in Britain and France. In October 2013 this culminated in a rousing victory for the Sheikh Joaan Al Thani-owned filly Treve in the Qatar-sponsored Prix de lArc de Triomphe, Europes most prestigious weight-for-age contest.

Treve, bought privately after winning the Prix de Diane (French Oaks) for her breeder Haras du Quesnay, is far from the only high-profile runner for the family. Sheikh Joaan, the brother of the new Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim, has his racing and breeding interests primarily in France, where he has taken control of Haras du Bouquetot. The Normandy stud farm will stand its first stallion from 2014, the Poule dEssai des Poulains (French 2,000 Guineas) winner Style Vendome, another in-training purchase this season. The Sheikh also has a burgeoning alliance with British-based trainer Richard Hannon, highlighted by Gr.1 Sussex Stakes winner Toronado. More recently

Olympic Glory won the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot for trainer Richard Hannon.

More familiar to Australian racegoers will be Sheikh Joaans cousin, Sheikh Fahad Al Thani, who, in his first season as a racehorse owner scooped one of the most coveted prizes in world racing; the Melbourne Cup. Understandably, his Cup winner Dunaden, whose 2011 victory was

augmented by success in the following seasons Caulfield Cup, is Sheikh Fahads favourite horse and he may retire to stud, perhaps to Sheikh Fahads new farm in Newmarket, Longholes Stud.

A fan of racing throughout his college days, the interests of Sheikh Fahad who is still only in the first half of his 20s lie principally in British racing, and he already stands stallions, including 2000 Guineas winner Makfi, at David Redvers Tweenhills Stud in Gloucestershire. The ambition is to stand many more.

In 2012, he and Redvers, who has

acted as the Sheikhs advisor since 2010, bought the seasons most expensive yearling when bidding 2.5 million guineas (approximately AU$4,474,700) for Hydrogen, a Galileo half-brother to Derby winner Authorized. That has since been eclipsed in spectacular style by Sheikh Joaans purchase of the top lot at the 2013 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. The daughter of Galileo became the most expensive thoroughbred

ever sold at auction in Europe when knocked down for 5 million guineas (AU$8,853,500) to the Sheikhs principal agent, Nicolas de Watrigant of Mandore International.

While Dunaden races in the yellow and blue-starred colours of Sheikh Fahads Pearl Bloodstock, the owner is now more heavily involved with two of his brothers, Sheikh Suhaim and Sheikh Hamad, in Qatar Racing, with its regal claret livery. The brothers are also the force behind the Qatar-based investment company QIPCO Holdings. Its significance in the racing world has been its generous backing, since the outset, of the British Champions Series,

It is the surname of Qatars ruling family, members of which have made a staggering impact on the racing scene in the last three seasons...

Inglis TV presenter Tanita Vella interviews Sheikh Fahad Al Thani at Easter in 2013 2013 MacKinnon Stakes Winner: Side Glance (GB), owned by Sheikh Fahad Al Thani

CLICK HERE to view Inglis TV interview with Sheikh Fahad


It will be no surprise to see the Qatari Influence grow in other major racing nations over the coming years including Australia.

now in its third year. The series culminates at Ascot each October with the flat season finale, QIPCO British Champions

Day, the richest raceday in the UK.

Despite an already deeply ingrained affinity with British horseracing, Sheikh Fahad himself is enjoying touring the racing world and partaking in bloodstock auctions in both hemispheres. The Inglis Easter Sale has been a port of call in recent years, where well-bred yearling fillies have been

purchased with a future broodmare career in mind. The team enjoyed its first Australian winner in August 2013 with

the Robert Smerdon-trained Driving Louise, a $210,000 Inglis purchase, at Ballarat (Victoria).

There was very much an element of feeling that the right thing to do was to reinvest some of the money from winning the Melbourne Cup into racing in Australia, says David Redvers of Qatar Bloodstocks horses in training in Victoria,

which are divided between Robert Smerdon, Danny OBrien and Peter Moody.

Observers of the bloodstock scene in Europe have already drawn comparisons between the new investors from gas and oil-rich Qatar and the Maktoum family of Dubai, whose dominance is now global since that first winner for Sheikh Mohammed in a Brighton maiden back in 1977. The princi-pal of Godolphin and Darley seemingly has no intention of curbing his own enormous investment in bloodstock in fact his spending outshone Sheikh Joaan Al Thani at Tattersalls in October 2013, where his 42 yearling purchases amounted to more than 10 million guineas but recent auctions and private sales in Europe make it plain that members of the Al Thani family are serious about expanding their racing portfo-lio. It will be no surprise to see the Qatari influence grow in other major racing nations over the coming years including Australia.

2011 Melbourne Cup Winner: Dunaden (FR), owned by Sheikh Fahad Al Thani Sheikh Joaan Al Thani (photo: www.tattersalls.com)

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YearsAdrian Nicol l

A lot has changed since the 1970s; however, of the myriad changes, at least one thing has stayed the same in 40 years... Adrian Nicoll has been attending

the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney.

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Adrian needs little introduction, having cemented his repu-tation as a world-class judge of a thoroughbred racehorse, especially when it comes to picking out the best from a crop of yearlings both in Europe and Australia.

It wouldnt have been a surprise to anybody who knew him as a youngster that Adrian would ultimately make his living out of the sport, his affection for it stretching back almost longer than he can now remember.

Whats the first race I remember? God, thats going back a bit, I went to my first race meeting when I was eight he says, taking a break from the hustle and bustle of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1.

I attended every one of Arkles Gold Cups when I was at school which was not a bad effort as the race was run on a Thursday. I also remember Sea Birds Arc well.

The first really great horse I remember seeing in the flesh was Nijinsky. He was a magnificent individual and I witnessed him win the first Irish Derby I attended in 1970.

I have followed racing since I was a child and I used to go racing whenever possible. My father was an Olympic show-jumper so we were brought up riding and looking after horses from an early age so I knew a little of the basics of the industry but I didnt get involved in it until joining BBA Ireland in July 1970.

That chance to work in the industry came about when Adrian was in South Africa and was offered a job with the South Afri-can Jockey Club which he never started.

I came back for a holiday, my parents lived in England and the man responsible for getting me into the BBA was Sir Maudent Milner, the BBAs representative in South Africa, recalls Adrian. He recommended me to come to meet Tom Cooper and Jonathan Irwin. Tom was really my guiding light when I joined the company; he was a man of great knowl-edge and integrity and bought all the yearlings for Vincent OBrien.

The Australia association happened because in those days no one in BBA Ireland covered that part of the world. Tom (Cooper) used to do all the American sales and was very involved with the big American breeders. So in 1974, he sent Jonathan Irwin and I to see if we could start a new market in Australia.

The luckiest thing of all that happened was when we went on that mission, on the same plane with us was one Robert Sang-ster. He was a great influence and help to me in Australia.

I was only 25 he was 37 and we got on great. A lot of the initial work I was doing in Australia was for him and he remained a very good friend until he sadly died in 2004.

The first yearling I bought in Australia actually topped the

The industry has changed beyond all recognition, the whole world has changed. Now, its a very professional, worldwide sale...

sale. I cant remember the name of it, but it was by Thatch, I think in about 75 or 76, for the princely sum of $57,000 and the dollar in those days was about three to one to the pound, and that yearling was bought for Sangster.

The first decent horse we bought at Inglis was a horse called

Rocky Top and he won the Canterbury Guineas in 1980.

And then another interesting purchase in the early days was a filly called Nouvelle Star. I bought her for $40,000 and it was

one of the first horses that Gary Wilkie, whos a part owner of

Black Caviar, was a shareholder in. When she was a three-year-old, I was in Australia with Hubie de Burgh who then ran

Adrian Nicoll - Easter 2012

Adrian Nicoll with John Ferguson & Angus Gold

Adrian Nicoll - Easter 2006


Sheikh Hamdans Irish operation and he asked me to find him a top class filly from the Star Kingdom line. Nouvelle Star was by Luskin Star so fitted the bill perfectly and she was the first horse owned by Sheikh Hamdan to race in Australia and went on to win stakes races in his colours.

The honour roll of the Gr.2 VRC Linlithgow Stakes, won in 1984 by Nouvelle Star, is certainly impressive. Other winners of the top sprint include Carbine, Phar Lap, Vain, Wenona Girl, Placid Ark, Mahogany, Choisir and Fastnet Rock.

One of the things I was involved with in the early days was the shuttling of stallions. Along with John Magnier and Robert Sangster we were involved with the first ever shuttle to Austral-ia, which was Mount Hagen.

He went to Newhaven Park Stud owned by the legendary John Kelly who was quite a terrifying man for someone in his twenties and I thought to myself he must be thinking what is this young pup doing here but luckily all went well and the first stallion from the northern hemisphere was on his way to Australia.

When asked about the best horses hes bought, Nicoll replied; A filly called Kooyonga. She won five Group 1s and was only the second filly in history to win the Eclipse. She won the Coro-nation, she also won the Prince Of Wales but got disqualified, which was a bit unlucky, and the Irish Guineas.

The Irish Guineas has been a very lucky race for me as I have bought the winner of it three times, the other two being Hula Angel who was owned by the late Australian Breeder Jim Fleming and Just The Judge who won the race this year and cost only 50,000 as a yearling.

One filly that would become a defining purchase of Adrians career was Alexander Goldrun, who was a multiple Group 1 winner in France, Hong Kong, Ireland and Great Britain.

We got her for 40,000 as a foal, said Adrian. For 24 hours, I actually owned her myself! One of the biggest mistakes I ever made was to let her go. She won five Group 1s and one of the great wins with her was the Hong Kong International.

The best filly I ever bought in Sydney was Serenade Rose. She won three Group 1s and was champion filly of her year.

Serenade Rose is the only filly to claim the VRC Oaks and ATC Australian Oaks double in the last 15 years.

Fillies have always been my main target at Inglis and over the years it has been a very happy hunting ground and we have had considerable success at Group and Listed level with horses trained by David Hayes and Lee Freedman.

While Adrians association with the BBA may not have changed, plenty of things around him have, not least the art of buying and selling horses at Inglis in Sydney at Easter.

He said, the industry has changed beyond all recognition, the whole world has changed. Now, its a very professional, worldwide sale. The horses are presented well, they look the part, the pedigrees are obviously better.

When I first went down to Australia, it was a bit rough and ready and there was not the same expertise. These days, whether it be Sydney, Kentucky, Newmarket or Goffs, its all

done on a highly professional level and the horses always look extremely good.

It was far more of an amateur thing in those days. It used to be just smaller farms, not the consigner element that happens today and each stud just sold their own few yearlings.

Also the facilities were nothing like they are now. Easter is one of the great, fun sales and it is held in a vibrant, major city. Youve got great restaurants, beaches and its just a great place to be plus there are some very good horses on offer which can go on and race for proper prizemoney.

Those with the uncanny ability to pick out great horses are looked upon with envy by their contemporaries and their brains are picked regularly to discover just what exactly it is that draws them to one horse over another.

The late, great Sir Henry Cecil once said he did not appreci-ate a horse with small ears, as he reckoned all the greats, like Arkle, had big ears. Adrians critique could be said to be a little more conventional.

I think the overall thing is the horses shape, he said. I have to have a horse that has a good action.

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The Inglis Sales app gives you access to Inglis sale catalogues on your iPad. With the app you can easily view and search for pedigrees, create & edit short lists and assign ratings to each lot. The app also provides up-to-date sale results, pedigree updates, photos and videos as well as access to the make an offer service, which makes this the perfect tool for an informed buyer.

To download search for Inglis Sales in the app store or to go to inglis.com.au/ipad

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2.Create short list

Browse to the short list screen where you have a few predefined smart short lists. One lists all the colts out of stakes winning mares. The other shows all yearlings by Danehill line sires with the dams DOB older than 2000.

3.Share

Make a separate list based on your smart short lists and share via email with a few people who are keen to join your syndicate. As you add ratings the information updates in real time on their iPad.*

5. ratingsInspection day - You sort your short list by stable to make things easier. As you make notes on each lot they are automatically marked as inspected. Your syndicate members unfortunately couldnt come to the inspections but they still see your ratings.* You rate the filly whos full brother ran 2nd at Canberra as an 8/10.

6. results

Sale day! Results and purchasers are up-dated in real time. There are lots of horses going to local trainers and the clearance rate is over 80%. You are going to have to work hard to get the filly you liked.

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Sold - you are the successful purchaser and you only needed to go $15,000 over the syndicate limit. Luckily you are approached by the under bidder who would like a 10% share.

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After the win in the Blue Diamond you cant wait for the next catalogue to be released!

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OCTAGONAL: 1996 AJC AUSTRALIAN DERBY


A special breed of men and women known as horse whisperershave risen to fame in recent years thanks to a string of books and movies,

but what of the 'horse visionaries those who can see greatness in a horse before the horse himself even knows he has it.

Trevor Lobb

Any colt that Ive ever bought for large money over the years, Ive spent a lot of time watching at the sales...

horses and was a secretary there for the ponies and quarter horses, but Id always wanted to be with Inglis from when I was a kid, Lobb recalled.

I used to go down to the track at Rosehill when I was still at school and there was a trainer who assisted me greatly, Tom Kennedy, who said to me dont get involved with the horse training side of things, management is where your future lies, so I took heed of that advice and applied to work at Inglis in the late sixties.

Mr Lobb was granted a position with Inglis in January 1970 and joined the bloodstock team working on pedigrees and race records, a laborious task back then when everything was hand written.

They had a good crew there when I started in Ossie Roberts, Fred Sarina, Peter Nicole and Graham Orr, Lobb said.

The late John Inglis was a marvellous teacher and I learnt a great deal from John and some of the senior trainers at the time, men like Terry Brosnan, Morrie Anderson, Jack Norman, Theo Green and of course TJ Smith, the doyen of the time.

The bloodstock world was a very different place in the seven-ties.

It was a time when trainers were the master of their own destiny and the majority selected and purchased their own yearlings, found owners for them and had to succeed or fail off the back of their own judgement.

At that stage, bloodstock agents played a very small part as

In the world of racing and thoroughbred breeding, horse visionaries are people who go to a yearling sale, inspect hun-dreds of youngsters that all appear the same to the untrained eye and separate the talented from the not so talented.Its an inexact science and even the best judges have their failures as they will all attest, but for whatever reason some people have a knack for seeing what a horse will become, rather than what it is.

Thoroughbred yearlings are presented for sale at a time in their lives of great physical change and seldom appear as the same individual a year or two down the track.

Some are at their best at sale time and never make the required improvement to keep up with their peers, while others are behind at sale time and improve beyond all recog-nition.

Ugly ducklings become swans and some swans become geese.

Time is a great changer of the young thoroughbred and the ability to predict what effect time will have on a horse is the true gift of a horse visionary.

Thoroughbred Breeders Australia Chairman and Emirates Park CEO Trevor Lobb is a man who has that gift and has spent a lifetime in the world of bloodstock, starting at Inglis in the pedigree/bloodstock department before progressing to roles with Woodlands Stud (Ingham Bloodstock), Darley Australia and now Emirates Park.

I started off with the Royal Agricultural Society in showing


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Gai Waterhouse

James Harron

Athleticism, the movement of the horse and its temperament, you take all of those thingsinto account.

trainers did it all themselves. TJ, Bart and Colin Hayes would pick the horses, buy the horses and then go away and find people to pay for them, Lobb said.

Jim Shannon was probably the first of the main bloodstock agents along with David Coles and Frank Ford, they would do all the groundwork, but the owners and trainers would make the final decision.

These days, trainers have enough on their plate and its become big business, racing seven days a week, so agents have taken over. A lot of the time, the owner is liaising with the agent rather than the trainer.

So what makes a good bloodstock agent? Somebody who can help a trainer get the right horses into their stable.

The right horses make a world of difference to a trainer as Gai Waterhouse found out when she employed the services of renowned yearling expert George Smith to assist her team.

With Mr Smith on the selection team, Waterhouse became arguably the best two year-old trainer in the country with a string of victories in races such as the Golden Slipper and Magic Millions.

Her training techniques undoubtedly evolved to produce the desired results, but she had the athletes to work with and the basic yearling evaluation theories put in place by Mr Smith remain to this day under her current selection team headed by James Harron.

A lot of it is history, knowing the farms, the stallions and what they produce. Also knowing the pedigrees and the families, Lobb explained.

Athleticism, the movement of the horse and its tempera-ment, you take all of those things into account.

What you see in a horse can be completely different to what the next person sees, because you dont live with it, you only see it for a certain period and its the eye of the beholder at that time as to what they see in it.

Mr Lobb believes attitude is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle.

Any colt that Ive ever bought for large money over the years Ive spent a lot of time watching at the sales, Lobb revealed.

People might not see me doing it, but Id be behind a fence post or somewhere out of the way, just watching often for hours when they are being paraded for other people.

One of the hardest things in buying a colt is in keeping it as a racehorse stallion. That good outlook and temperament are so necessary.

During his time with the Ingham family, Mr Lobb was instru-mental in purchasing all of their stock and his successes include the great champion Octagonal, purchased from New Zealand in 1994 for $210,000.

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The natural gift of being able to truly see a horse combined with a knowledge of pedigrees and experience in buying is what makes a successful bloodstock agent.

Octagonal

Stud) and Octagonal walked out of the box and he was just one of those horses! Lobb reflected.

He had the eye, the look, the walk. Everything about him said, put him away, well buy him and thats what we did.

He had everything about him to be a stallion if he could gallop and he had the temperament. I dont know how many times I saw him brought out of his box for inspections, but every time he walked out was the same. They have to put up with a lot as racehorses and if they can put up with that as a yearling they will generally carry it through.

Mr Lobbs forays into Inglis Sale Ring on behalf of the Ingham Brothers also yielded much success with star purchases including Golden Slipper winner Forensics, Group 1 winning fillies Mnemosyne, Shame and Camarilla, plus Group winning colts and stallions such as Domesday, Musket, Manton, Shaft and Procol Harum.

Everybody has a different system, some will rate them out of ten, others give them As, Bs and Cs, theres no right or wrong way of doing it, Lobb said.

There was an agent that used to come down from Newmar-ket in the UK, Richard Galpin, whod walk around the sales with about five different coloured biros writing in his cata-logue.



Mnemosyne

He was one of the first European agents to come down under along with Sir Phillip Payne-Galway, Josh Collins and Adrian Nicoll.

He was an outstanding judge of a horse, albeit not a great business man and did a lot of work for people like Michael Ryan, the Kellys at Newhaven, Robert Sangster, Jim Fleming and Gerry Harvey.

I bought quite a few horses through him over the years from the northern hemisphere. He was one of those very few people that could describe a horse and you could see it. Theyd walk off the plane and theyd be exactly as he said and you thought.

Thats a difficult thing to do, but I had a very good rapport with him over the years. There are people that do have an eye for a horse and he was one of them.

The natural gift of being able to truly see a horse combined with a knowledge of pedigrees and experience in buying is what makes a successful bloodstock agent.

You never stop learning in this business and watching people that are successful is how you learn, Lobb concluded.

Every year the sales bring to us a fresh generation of first season sires to work out and sort through, so there is always a new challenge.

You tend to go back over horses that youve purchased and try and understand why something worked or didnt work, so in theory, you always strive to succeed!

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The Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is a destination for buyers from all over the world looking to source the finest yearlings on breeding and

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In particular, buyers from Asia have targeted the sale with tremendous results.

One of the most popular graduates of the sale in recent years has been Singapores champion mare Better Life, who retired in a blaze of glory after her length and a quarter victory in the Singapore Derby in July 2013.

It was her third Group 1 victory after wins in two legs of Singapores Triple Crown, the Kranji Mile and the Singa-pore Gold Cup, last year.

Incredibly, Better Life would never have been conceived if not for the outbreak of Equine Influenza (EI) in

the spring of 2007, just one of many incredible stories stemming from that peculiar season.

The Better Life story began in 2006 in the United States. Japanese-bred American mare Quiet Life was in foal to E Dubai when she was purchased for Ron and Mark Towell at the 2006 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

Quiet Life herself was a daughter of Sunday Silence, out of champion two-year-old filly Storm Song, a winner

of the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies in 1996. Quiet Life was unraced, but with her pedigree she was a standout at the sales.

We had been trying to purchase a nice mare for some time and kept getting out bid, but we were very keen on her as she was such a lovely type, said Mark Towell.

After her purchase, the intention was to bring Quiet Life to Australia in the spring of 2007 to begin her breeding career down under. However, fate was to intervene.

As she was on the float heading to the airport, word filtered through that EI had broken out in Australia. The flight which was to have brought Quiet Life down under was cancelled, and all plans were thrown into jeopardy.

At the last moment, it was decided she should be served by Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Smarty Jones to southern hemisphere time.

We were given a few options by our agent and as soon as he got to Smarty Jones I knew straight away that was where I wanted to send her for service, Mark recalls.

bETTER LIFE WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN CONCEIVED IF NOT FOR THE OUTBREAK OF EQUINE INFLUENZA...

She made an immediate impact, winning her first three starts in late 2011 and 2012... By the end of 2012, she was a dual Group 1 winner.

Better Life pictured as a yearling

Better Life - 2013 Singapore Derby


The resulting foal; Better Life, was born in Australia in October 2008.

We always had a big wrap on the filly in the paddock, she was always such a standout on looks and temperament but we decided we needed to start recouping some of our costs from the investment and chose to put her under the hammer through the Easter Year-ling Sale, adds Mark.

To date, Better Life remains the only Smarty Jones yearling to go through a sale ring in Australasia. She went through the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale as part of the Torryburn Stud draft. Suzuka Racing Stable parted with $150,000 to purchase her for Singapore.

Shipped to the Lion City, she was placed with Hideyuki Takaoka, best known for training three-time Singa-pore Gold Cup winner El Dorado and 2009 Singapore Derby winner Jolies Shinju.

She made an immediate impact, winning her first three starts in late 2011 and 2012 by a combined total of more than ten lengths. By the end of 2012, she was a dual Group 1 winner.

In 14 starts, she was remarkably consist-ent, missing the top four only once when she came from last to finish

seventh in the 2013 Singapore Airlines International Cup behind Military Attack. That day, she finished in front of some of the worlds best gallop-ers Hong Kong Vase winner Red Cadeaux, Grand Prix de Paris winner Meandre and Prix Ganay winner Pastorius were all behind her.

However, she arguably saved her best performance for last when she won the Singapore Derby off an eight week freshen up.

To the roar of the large Singapore crowd, the champion mare sprinted to the lead at the 300m mark before coming away to record a tremendous-ly popular victory.

In the aftermath, Takaoka announced the shock retirement of his beloved mare, with the breeding barn beck-oning.

I spoke with the owners before the Derby and they have decided to send her to Australia to become a brood-mare. They obviously dont want to over race her as its not good for a mare to be too tired with racing if she is to become a mother, said Takaoka after the Derby victory.

Im of course very sad I wont train such a good mare anymore. Winning a second Derby is a great source of

happiness. Shes a very, very good mare and Im very, very happy,added Takaoka.

Better Life returned to Australia in August, with her owners electing to send her to Widden Studs emerging stallion, Sebring.

A colt from Takaokas other Singapore Derby winning mare Jolies Shinju will be offered at the 2014 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Buyers will have to wait a few more years for the progeny of Better Life to grace the sale ring at Newmarket.

But as with the initial conception of Better Life even when the best laid plans do go amiss greatness can still be achieved.

She arguably saved herbest performance for last when she won the singapore derby...

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New and regular faces under the famed Fig Tree at Newmarket attracted a lot of attention. All in town to see the best that Australasia has to offer, buyers were not disappointed on quality.

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rowd CThe Stars event centre was the venue for the 2013 Australian Easter Yearling Sale opening party. Guests enjoyed delicious canaps and following drinks they spilled out onto the terrace overlooking Darling Harbour.FIONA, JOHN & tIM COATES LENA ATTEBO, NEIL WERRETT, adele & peter orton MARK RICHARDS, MATT RUDOLPH, katie & antony thompson

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The turnout for the Inglis Aussie Picnic as always was a big one. There to celebrate the opening day of the 2013 Royal Ascot Carnival, guests were not disappointed by the great Australian products on offer in the way of Yalumba Wines and Crown Lager beer (provided by Inglis sponsors).

john warren, matthew Cloros & jon freyerangus gold & january farringtonpaul whittaker & john messara

fiona goor & terry henderson danny & nina obrien zoe fowlston & francesca cumani amber & olly tait


CDEAN HAWKES & RICKY YIUDENISE MARTIN, BRUCE SLADE, JAMES HARRON & DEAN HARVEY

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The Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale always draws a strong international crowd. This year the South African contingent proved hard to beat in the sale ring along with a hugely successful local buying bench.

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CClub 23 at Crown played host to the opening party for the 2013 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale. Over 400 people, including local and international buyers and trainers, gathered to celebrate the sale.Trish & John muir bjorn baker & caroline searcy Adrianne sarkozy, jj van der linden,

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Now in its third year the Inglis Art Award again saw an eager crowd gather at Newmarket to launch the exhibition and hear the announcement of this years winner. This year honours went to Jason Roberts for his work titled Valyra Passes Beauty Parlour at Chantilly.

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by John Holloway

It is quite a coincidence that two of Sydneys great racing icons celebrate the same birth year of 1867 and have both become

an integral part of the Australian thoroughbred industry.



These two powerhouses are William Inglis & Son and the Australian Jockey Club per courtesy of one of their flagship events, the AJC Sires Produce Stakes.

The Inglis dynasty dates back 147 years when William Inglis, born to immigrants Thomas and Catherine, began an auctioneering and produce agency at 793 George Street, Sydney at the age of 35.

By 1905 one of his nine sons John had taken over the company and the firm bought the goodwill off T.S. Clibborns bloodstock business. A year later Inglis were able to lease their current day property Newmarket at Randwick.

First run over seven furlongs the AJC Sires Produce Stakes also went under change in 1905 to 1908, as it was run over six furlongs, before reverting back to its historical distance.

John Inglis conducted the first Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale at Newmarket in 1914. The century old sale continues to be the number one choice for the major breeding entities to sell their stock. Inglis then purchased the Newmarket complex in 1917 for 50,000 pounds.

Four years later in 1921 the Austral-ian racing community would see an outstanding filly claim the time-hon-oured AJC Sires Produce Stakes in the form of Furious. The chestnut female would go on to claim the AJC Cham-pagne Stakes, STC Rosehill Guineas, VRC Oaks, VRC Derby and VRC St Leger.

By the mid 1930s Inglis and the AJC Sires Produce had etched their places in Australian racing with a dearth of champion performers coming out of the Newmarket ring and using the Randwick set-weight race to gain stud prominence respectively.

Hall Mark (1933), Ajax (1937) and Inglis graduate Shannon (1944) all have their names in the Sires Produce Hall of Fame and went on to stallion careers with Shannon standing in the USA.

1957 saw Tulloch beat Todman and Prince Darius in what was a halcyon two-year-old year. It was also the year that another John Inglis, a fourth generation Inglis grandson, was to find himself at the helm of William Inglis & Son being appointed managing direc-tor from 1957 to 1989.

Affectionately known as The Boss, John was to become the doyen of auctioneers in Australia and was an absolute gentleman.

John was in the top job at Inglis for just two years before a chestnut filly by Wilkes from Golden Chariot was sold at the 1959 Inglis Australian Easter Year-ling Sale. That filly named Wenona Girl would be the highest stakes winning mare to have raced in Australia by the time she retired. 22 of her 27 wins were in principal races, 15 of which were later designated as Group 1 races such as the AJC Sires Produce Stakes.

Probably the most astonishing defeat in AJC Sires Produce Stakes history occurred in 1969 when one of Austral-ias superb all time sprinters - the

1867William Inglis & Son and the AJC Sires Produce Stakes established.

1906Inglis lease their current day property Newmarket at Randwick.

1914Inglis conducts their first Australian Easter Yearling Sale at Newmarket.

1921Outstanding filly Furious wins the time-honoured AJC Sires Produce Stakes.

1930sInglis and AJC Sires Produce had etched their placed in Australian racing.

1944Inglis graduate Shannon sold. Shannon later went to stud in the USA.

1957John Inglis, a fourth generation Inglis grandson appointed to Managing Director of Inglis (1957 1989).

Tulloch beat Todman and Prince Darius.

1969Beau Babylon defeats 6 to 1 on favourite Vain in the AJC Sires Produce Stakes.

1977Luskin Star claimed the Triple Crown and won the Golden Slipper by seven lengths; the Sires Produce by three lengths and the Champagne Stakes by six lengths.

1980sAfter winning the AJC Sires Produce Stakes Full On Aces, Keepers, Victory Prince, Wonga Prince and Snippets went to stud.

AJC Sires Produce Stakes was won by Guelph, a result of the mating between Exceed And Excel and Camarilla both outstanding gallopers and graduates of the Inglis Australi-an Easter Yearling Sale.

1987Inglis sold their first $1million yearling at the Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

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The connection between Inglis and the Sires Produce Stakes continues. The 2013 Group 1 event for juveniles was won by the Darley owned Guelph, a result of the mating between Exceed And Excel and Camarilla - both outstanding gallopers and graduates of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

stunning chestnut colt Vain - had his colours lowered as a 6 to 1 on favour-ite.

Vain had won all five starts with his victory in the Golden Slipper a one-act affair in which he ran his rivals ragged in a four length cakewalk. Labour-ing in ninth place in the Slipper was Beau Babylon, who was to back up a fortnight later with Roy Higgins in the saddle and run down Vain in the seven furlongs Sires Produce as a 33 to 1 longshot.

Vain would get his revenge in the Champagne Stakes before taking all in the spring. He would also go on to an illustrious stallion career at Widden Stud siring 370 individual winners including Sir Dapper and Inspired who won successive Golden Slippers in 1983 and 1984 respectively.

In 1977 chestnut colt Luskin Star claimed the Triple Crown for John Wade and Max Lees. He won the Golden Slipper by seven lengths; the

Sires Produce by three lengths and the Champagne Stakes by six lengths before being on-sold to Robert Sangster.

The 1980s also produced subse-quent stallions after winning the Sires Produce. They were Full On Aces, Keepers, Victory Prince, Wonga Prince and Snippets.

Not just an exceptional auctioneer John Inglis also had a great eye for selecting a racehorse, and raced a number of top-class gallopers; the best being the Bart Cummings trained Shaftesbury Avenue, a prolific Group winning sprinter in the 1980s.

Inglis sold their first $1million yearling at the 1987 Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

John Inglis lived until the age of 88 with his wife Margaret at Newmarket. Only a few years after Johns pass-ing the company changed strategy bringing in one-time News Corporation employee Mark Webster as Managing

Director with the esteemed business-man John Coates appointed Chair-man.

The AJC has also undergone recent change, merging with the STC to become the now Australian Turf Club.

The connection between Inglis and the Sires Produce Stakes continues. The 2013 Group 1 event for juveniles was won by the Darley owned Guelph, a result of the mating between Exceed And Excel and Camarilla both outstanding gallopers and graduates of the Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

William Inglis & Son and the Sires Produce Stakes are steeped in history and will continue to play a major role in the thoroughbred racing and breeding industry, gaining huge momentum despite the many ups and downs which invariably occur in the Sport Of Kings.

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For all its glitz and glamour the thoroughbred racing industry does not shirk its responsibility of giving back to the community through very

worthwhile organisations and charities.

by Peter Twomey


As well as being the largest taxpayer in its country the Hong Kong Jockey Club is also the largest private donor of charity funds, con-tributing an astounding AU$250,000,000 (approx.) annually towards various social, health and educational institutions to the benefit of over 150 charities and community projects.

The Australian and New Zealand racing and breeding industries have also dug deep for those less fortunate. Some of the numerous charities supported by people in the thoroughbred community include the Sydney Childrens Hospital Network, Spinal Cord Injury Trust and Childrens Cancer Institute Of Australia.

Some of the initiatives undertaken by friends of Inglis to support these great causes include 4 Tracks 4 Kids, The Catwalk Trust Kokoda Walk and Linga Longa Stud Olympics.

Throughout the day we shared stories of our daily lives with people we had never met before or friends from the horse industry that had been drawn together by a common purpose.

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4 Tracks 4 Kids was founded on the lifeblood of racing, a bet. TVN personality Richard Callander made a bet that if Italy couldnt beat New Zealand in their 2010 Football World Cup match then hed walk between the four Sydney racetracks raising funds for charity. The match was a 1-all draw, and the kids of Australia have benefitted to the tune of more than $1.5million so far thanks to 4 Tracks 4 Kids.

Funds raised at the bi-annual 4 Tracks 4 Kids walks in Syd-ney and Melbourne have been donated to help develop medicines and cures for childrens diseases, training medical personnel and purchasing important medical equipment.

Following in the footsteps of their colleagues who have walked for this cause in recent years, Inglis staff members Jonathan DArcy, Andrew Munce, James Mitchell and Chris Russell all participated in the walk from Warwick Farm to Rose-hill to Canterbury to Randwick on 7 October 2013.

We have watched Richie and his supporters over the last three years putting in the hard yards to raise money for kids. Therefore it was with some trepidation we gathered in the cool half-light of a Warwick Farm morning, not to watch a sleek thoroughbred take to the track, but rather to see a group of 20 mostly middle aged, athletically challenged men set off on a 50km walk said DArcy.

Over the course of the next 11 hours the initial group were joined by over 200 men, women and children all committed to

raising funds for the Sydneys Childrens Hospital Network and the Simone Montgomery Trust.

Richie led us out of Warwick Farm, obviously under Aidan OBriens instructions to ensure a strong tempo was set from the outset. After two furlongs he joined the rest of us in the pe-loton content to stride our way towards Rosehill in an orderly yet determined fashion.

As someone who spends a fair part of their job examining conformation and gait on untried racehorses I was impressed to see the sleek and athletic Nathan Berry (jockey) being kept up to the mark by a heaving and ever increasing bow legged Richie. As we saw with Phar Lap a big heart will carry you a long way!

Throughout the day we shared stories of our daily lives with people we had never met before or friends from the horse in-dustry that had been drawn together by a common purpose.

Entering the Randwick straight that afternoon we could all feel something special had been achieved. Yes, the $300,000 that Richie handed over to the medical team representing the Randwick and Westmead Childrens Hospitals was an enormous result, but I feel the real winners on the day were the participants. We had joined Richies quest hoping to raise money for a great cause but in the process we had become acutely aware of the difference we were capable of making to the lives of sick children and their parents.

The highlight for all of us came as we completed the walk on the steps of the Randwick Childrens Hospital and formed a tunnel for Richie to walk through and complete the day.

What we witnessed was the sight of a beautiful young girl, Erin Wardle, gingerly getting out of her wheelchair that she had been pushed on through the streets of Sydney by her family for the preceding eight hours. Standing unsteadily on her feet with metal braces supporting her fragile little legs, and walking unaided, she completed the last 30m of our journey. There was not a dry eye in the group and that is a gift that we all will treasure for many years, DArcy recalls.

Inglis Jonathan DArcy & Trainer John OShea



linga longa stud olympics

In April 2013 three long-time friends Arthur Inglis, Brent Taylor and Peter OBrien set out on a journey to raise funds for the Spinal Cord Injury Trust and Catwalk Trust, which has been introduced to many in the thoroughbred industry through the tireless efforts of founder Catriona Williams of Little Avondale Stud in Masterton, New Zealand.

Since each of us had read some wartime history of the Koko-da Trail in Papua New Guinea, we were delighted to be able to support these causes while also sharing an unforgettable experience, said Arthur Inglis.

The trio were led by Peter Morrison, known to many as the pro-moter of the charity boxing events held at Inglis Newmarket sale complex each year. The tour group was also managed by Network Kokoda, the founder of a charitable initiative

in PNG which aims to broaden the farming knowledge and agricultural diversity at a very impressive farm school located just out of Port Moresby.

We were able to deepen our appreciation of the unimag-inable hardships endured by the ill equipped World War II troops. The boundless spirit of bravery, mateship, courage and sacrifice which was demonstrated along the length of the trail over 70 years before us still remains as accessible as the mud, rocks and mosquitoes.

Brent, Peter and I felt very fortunate to have had this inspi-rational adventure and are most grateful to our many friends and family for their support in the related fundraising, Arthur said.

Since each of us had read some wartime history of the Kokoda Trail in Papua New Guinea, we were delighted to be able to support these causes while also sharing an unforgettable experience

The Catwalk trust kokoda walk

Hunter Valley Studs come together in Gundy (20kms east of Scone) in early August to raise money for the Australian Chil-drens Cancer Research Institute and for injured stud workers and their families, similar to the Jockeys Funds seen through-out Australia.

Teams of four people compete against each other in a varie-ty of testing and hilarious challenges, to make up the Olympic side of the day. Racing and sporting memorabilia and once-in-a-lifetime experiences are also auctioned off during the day, and plenty of fun is had in raising much needed funds for some very worthy causes.

It started as an idea in 2009 as a bit of fun and a way of rais-ing money to support Craig Goozee who was busily running, cycling and kayaking 12,500 miles around Australia to raise money for The Childrens Cancer Institute of Australias A2B4C marathon, which he was doing in honour of his daughter

Jessica who had died from cancer, said Mick Malone who has been instrumental in getting this day up and running.

Following on from raising $15,000 in their first year and $60,000 in the second, the third year, 2011 was a bumper year, we surpassed all expectations by raising $110,000.

As the event had grown to such a degree it was decided to make the Linga Longa Charity Olympics a bi-annual event, thus 2012 was skipped. The event was held again in 2013, rais-ing $120,000. There were plenty of teams competing and the auction was an overwhelming success once again.

This year the donations have been shared between sev-eral charities including the Childrens Cancer Institute and 4Tracks4Kids. Many thanks go to everyone that has helped, contributed and competed and we all look forward to the 2015 event. Malone concluded.

Arthur Inglis, Peter OBrien & Brent Taylor A river crossing on the trail



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A racing life is a tough and testing one. Jockeys, trainers, strappers all work from the wee hours and many dont finish until early evening.

Betty explains, I became the first female trainer back in 1962,

I had a horse being trained by someone else and I thought this is silly, why not do it myself? I decided to apply for a train-ers license and made an appointment to meet the licensing committee. It was a group of elderly gentlemen who all stood up to greet me. They had perfect manners and listened to all my words I had been preparing for weeks.

Then they stood up as I was finished and said, Thank you Mrs

Lane. But we dont license women.

At that time there were no girls around the track. They wer-ent allowed to do trackwork or any work in the stables. Their only link to racing was as an owner where the trainer would take their money and their horse.

Betty continues, It was just accepted that that is how it was. Women couldnt be anything in racing. I had a friend who

Add to that the constant pressure to find horses, find owners, produce results, pay the bills and be paid, and the glamour of raceday is a long way from the everyday reality of most trainers.

Imagine then the added pressure of being told you cant even do that job. For one simple reason. You are a woman!

There have only been two fully licensed female trainers at Royal Randwick. One is dubbed the first lady of racing, Gai Waterhouse. The other was the original, the pioneer, Betty Lane.

Bettys story is an inspiration to all young women aspiring for a senior position in this toughest of games.

The story of the Gai Waterhouse fight to get her trainers license is well known, but Betty says her situation in the early sixties was even harder.

by Caroline Searcy


CLICK HERE to view John Tapps interview with Betty Lane


I was training out there for around 15 years and in 1972 I won the Western Districts trainers premiership against around 200 men. I did that for three years running.

said shed been to the track and seen trackwork, boy was I jealous!

Around that time Betty heard of a woman out west, who had a trainers license. She says, I applied to the Western Districts Trainers Association which covered areas such as Orange and Cowra and I dont know how or why, but they gave it to me.

I was training out there for around 15 years and in 1972 I won the Western Districts trainers premiership against around 200 men. I did that for three years running.

By then times were changing so Betty applied for a license at Randwick. It was a daunting exercise, but Betty got her license. The AJC committee at that stage I was completely in awe of as a group of very powerful men. However they could not refuse me as, I believe, the first woman in the world to win

a trainers premiership, let alone three in a row.

Not everyone was pleased with the decision. One man said to me, now youve been granted a number two license theres no need to go on with it!

At that time, you had to go on a permit and after a few years if you proved you could train you would get a number two license. Then if you were really good you would get a number one license. So after three or four years I did get a number one.

Gai Waterhouse received hers a year after Betty retired and around then they abolished the steps so all licenses were full training licenses.

Its quite astonishing as Betty points out, to this day Gai



to this day Gai Waterhouse and I are the only two women to ever have a full trainers license at Randwick!

Waterhouse and I are the only two women to ever have a full trainers license at Randwick! But going back fifty years I thought I could do it. You had to be twice as good as a guy to get a horse.

Betty was married to, as she describes him, battling jockey Tiger Holland and after he finished riding he became foreman and had to play second fiddle to the lady trainer.

As for being a woman giving direction to a man in racing? Betty reminisces, he was a kind man. He would always take direction. We might debate something to do with a horse but he always accepted what I decided.

Betty points out that the number of successful women in racing is on the rise Kim Waugh has done very well, as for jockeys, Pam ONeill in Brisbane was one of the first and broke the ice there, and now girls are an essential part of the racing scene as jockeys.

Bernadette Cooper is about the best I have seen. Shes very tough. She won the premiership in Brisbane and then came to Sydney. She didnt get the rides her ability should have received because she was a girl, but she was a tough rider.

One of the hardest jobs for the modern day trainer is to fill their stables with the right horses. Betty remembers, as far as the yearling sales go I had a lot of success buying horses for not much who went on and did well. Athelnoth (by Corona-tion Day) I bought for only a few thousand dollars and he won over three hundred thousand dollars, winning two listed races including the Parramatta Cup.

Betty also trained Belle Tetue who won the Gimcrack Stakes, and says, Inglis have a wonderful sale and Ive bought some lovely horses from Newmarket. Not all were top notch but Ive had seven horses run in the Golden Slipper (Smokey Jack 2nd, Timothy 4th) and the highest price Ive ever paid is $7,000.

I dont look at the breeding at all, but select horses on con-formation alone. Its always about the conformation for me. First priority is the rump. It is the motor. The thicker and deeper the rump, the greater the motor.

Betty continues, second would have to be straight front legs. Its something I dont forgive. If somethings not right, dont pick it. Ive usually bought yearlings for good prices because the breeding is not there. However, at the Inglis Easter Sale you can pretty much buy sight unseen. You know they all have nice conformation and they are ALL well bred! Some people use pedigree experts to pick them and get a vet to look at them... There are some outstanding horse judges around.

The drive to get another horse always remains for Betty. A few years ago I had a friend in a wheelchair who asked me to buy a few horses for her at the Inglis Classic Sale. They did well around the western districts. I couldnt help buying one myself.

For Betty though, the responsibility of being a horsewoman ensured a good home for those who didnt make the grade.

Betty rationalises, you have to be very realistic and cut them quickly if thats the case. If a horse is not a racing proposition, if its not good enough, I advise people not to go on with it. It is spoiling the owner for racing. But I never sell them. I always give them away.

Betty Lane is no longer connected with racing on a day-to-day basis, but still lives a stones throw from the track she fought to gain her rightful place as a fully licensed trainer, Royal Randwick. Her legacy continues for generations of women to come.



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The Sire? The Dam?

Importance of

Race Record?

Importance of X-Rays? Quality

Middle-dist

ance

Stayers?

Higher Prizemoney ?Lower Betting Takeouts?

More or Less 2YO Racing in Australia?

by Peter Twomey

DIFFERENCE



Question One

What is more important at yearling sales, the sire or dam?

Syndicators and agents Chris Ward (Triple Crown Syndications), Brad Spicer (Spicer Thoroughbreds), Willie Leung and Apollo Ng thought both, or neither was more important than the other.

Best to keep an open mind, suggests John Hutchinson (Scone Bloodstock).

Trainers John Hawkes, Anthony Cummings and Michael Freedman put more emphasis on the dam. The dam is the more obvious road map to success, said Cummings, while Freedman added, I probably have more interest in depth of pedigree on the dam side.

James Bester is in the process of swapping sides, responding, I believe that a top-class mare is more likely to compensate for a bad stallion than a top-class stallion likely to compensate for a bad mare. I personally am more stallion-focused but am becoming more and more dam-focused as time goes by.

Bester followed it up with the caveat in my view, however, physique and action are the real keys. A view agreed by Chris Ward and Angus Gold, more importantly though, it then comes down to the individual yearling as a physical type, said Ward.

Gold said, personally I have always found the most important thing to be the individual themselves, and then you try and align how much you like a horse physically with both sides of the pedigree.

Melbourne trainer Mick Price agreed about importance of type, but that in the end the stallion helps more with the ability to sel

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