CLASSIC RACES AHEAD OF BLUE DIAMOND Ted Ryan

This is along with some outstanding young racehorses like Le Kirk and Sneaky Five.

Recent carnival stars include, Bella Nipotina, Tuvalu, Lost and Running, and Masked Crusader, and fan favourites like Gytrash, Kenedna, and Hey Doc.

Traditionally there is incredible value to be found at the PremierYearling Sales - there have been 22 Group One winning graduates since 2018.

Twelve of these could have been purchased for $100,000 or less, including Santa Ana Lane, Bella Nipotina, Beat the Clock, Seabrook, Spright and Savatoxl.

This year an outstanding collection of 816 yearlings have been catalogued for sale at their Oakland Precinct over the three days of March 5-7.

The catalogue is made up of representatives from the best Victorian farms and breeders, supplemented by drafts from leading interstate breeders as well as a select range of wellcredentialled yearlings from New Zealand.

But the big mail is that he is all class, and Cummings has a big opinion of the Exceed and Excel colt.

Another earlier favourite was the Peter and Paul Snowden two-year-old Kings Gambit, by I Am Invincible, who bolted in at his debut, blitzing them in the Debutant Stakes at Caulfield back on October 8.

However, at his next start he was surprisingly beaten by another good colt in Red Resistance, prepared by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.

I would say forget that run, as he is much better that that, as proven by his big effort at Caulfield.

Another of our leading trainers, Annabel Neasham, looks like she has another smart one to be added to her star-studded stable, with horses like Zaaki and Mugatoo.

A nice filly by the name of Learning to Fly was impressive at her first start winning the Widden Stakes for the fillies at Rosehill.

The daughter of theAmerican stallion, Justify, showed what she had beating the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace filly, Steel City.

The leading team of Maher and Eustace atoned with a nice win by their colt, Veecee, by Golden Slipper winner Capitalist , winning at his first start at Flemington over 1100 metres up the straight.

He went under the hammer for $750,000 at theAdelaide sales, and looks a nice type.

He was engaged at Sandown on February 5, as we were going to press.

Leading Victorian trainers, Mick Price and Mick Kent Junior, produced a nice filly, when they won with Charm Stone in the Darley Ottawa Stakes at Flemington back on November

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, having her first start and was impressive. She is by the former Queensland sprinter, Spirit of Boom, and showed plenty at her first start.

In my next column I will follow up the other main chances in the Blue Diamond in the market, and other moves.

Inglis Sale

■ The Chief Executive of the Inglis Group, Sebastian Hutch, is onfident that the upcoming Yearling Sales starting on March 3, will once again prove a big winner.

Since 2019, graduates of this sale have won 25 of Australia’s Open $1 Million races plus, with winners including the likes of the world’s best sprinter, Nature Strip.

It is one of most well-diversified yearling sale catalogues they have put together with the progeny of 133 different stallions being presented by 67 individual vendors.

All yearlings offered at the 2023 Premier Yearling Sale are eligible for the $7.55 million Inglis Race Series including the $ 2 million Inglis Millennium, One Million Inglis Sprint and the One Million, Inglis Pink Bonus Series. I will follow up some of the progeny up for sale from March 5, in the next edition.

VOBIS sires boost

■ Good news all round with news that the joint Racing Victoria and Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria initiative will provide owners with the opportunity to win a share of $7.5 million in VOBIS Sires Boost vouchers.

This has put a big smile on the faces of those who back the VOBIS moves.

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