Inglis Premier Yearling Sale Preview on Sky

Media Release - Sunday February 26

Monday night on Sky Thoroughbred Central see the pick of the crop of ‘23 heading for Oaklands in Melbourne in March, as Caroline Searcy presents the 2023 Inglis Premier Yearling Sale Preview.

The sale that has produced two of the world’s greatest sprinters of the past decade, Nature Strip and Black Caviar and a myriad of other Group 1 winners is back in full swing with magnificently bred and conformed future champions being offered from leading Victorian stud farms, from New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.

Alabama Express filly from Utzon, a daughter of another white wonder, The Opera House.

The Preview looks at the huge investment of Yuesheng Zhang and Yulong Farm, including vision of their new rare white filly, the new ownership of traditional leading vendor, Blue Gum Farm the Carrick’s Noorilim Park and David Kobritz’s Musk Creek Farm with a number of yearlings also prepared in Victoria for leviathan breeder, Arrowfield Stud.

Australasia’s leading stallions are represented including yearlings by Written Tycoon, Savabeel, I Am Invincible, Zoustar, So You Think, Snitzel, Dundeel, Deep Field, and young sires Alabama Express, Grunt, Blue Point, The Autumn Sun, Castelvecchio and Justify.

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Don’t miss the chance to see these outstanding yearlings on the big screen in their full broadcast glory! Pick out the horses to follow through the Inglis Premier Yearling Sale set down for Oaklands in Melbourne from the 5th – 7th March.

8.30pm Monday February 27, Sky Thoroughbred Central – CH 528 (Foxtel) with replays up to the sale. 

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