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46.
William Inglis &
Magic Millions Continue HK Winners
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15/05/2003 |
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Both
major Australian thoroughbred sales companies William Inglis & Magic
Millions continue to rack-up a production line of weekly winners in Hong Kong.
In the last week:
Inglis Graduates scored a treble at Sha Tin on the weekend, with victories by:
3YO Bowin (a $45,000 buy at the 2001 Inglis Premier Sale), whose Widden
Stud-based shuttle sire Belong To Me has had considerable success in HK this
season (with Amazing Victory, Grandway Shuttle, Czar of Prussia & Bowin, all
Southern Hemisphere bred 3YOs); 6YO Royal Academy horse Lead To Win (a $55,000
purchase at the 1998 Inglis Breeze-Up Sale); & ever-green 7YO gelding Love
On Earth (Cossack Warrior-Small Timer), an $85,000 buy at the 1997 Inglis Easter
Sale, recorded his 6th win to take his prize-money past $470,000.
Inglis graduates also scored a double at Happy Valley, with victories by: smart
Thunder Gulch 3YO colt Thunder Man (a $135,000 buy at the 2001 Inglis Breeze-Up
Sale), who has now won 3 of his last 4 starts, earning prize-money of $246,004;
& 4YO gelding Top Of The Crown (Brocco-Enchantor, by Bletchingly), who was a
$25,000 bargain purchase at the 2000 Inglis Premier Sale.
Meanwhile Magic Millions graduates notched a treble under the lights at Happy
Valley with impressive wins by: bloodstock agent Bryan Muschialli’s 1998 MM
Gold Coast Yearling Sale $25,000 purchase Ace of Pace (a son of Emirates’
Victorian sire Snaadee); 2YO Noble Hero (Snippets-Fidelia, by Biscay), a $62,500
buy at the MM Gold Coast Horses-In-Training sale; & $90,000 2001 Adelaide MM
Yearling Sale purchase Thunder Man (Thunder Gulch-Poetique) ridden by expatriate
SA jockey Dwayne Dunn.
And Magic Millions graduates also recorded a winning double at Sha Tin with
former smart Australian gallopers Prime Witness & Crocker both successful in
HK$1.6 million (A$318,000) races for expatriate South Australian trainer David
Hayes: Prime Witness (evergreen son of former outstanding sprinter Euclase &
a $57,500 purchase for leading Queensland-based bloodstock agent John Foote at
the 1998 MM Adelaide Yearling Sale) won over 1400m for Dwayne Dunn to take his
prize-money total to HK$3 million (A$600,000); & the former Bill
Mitchell-trained gelding Crocker (Darbonne-Noble Prowess), who was originally
purchased by Mitchell for just $17,000 at the 2000 MM Gold Coast Yearling Sale,
won over 1650 metres to take his prize-money total to HK$3.4 million
(A$680,000).
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